The reaction I am seeing is "how dare you defend your gun rights while this tragedy continues".
Yea. This is the headline on Huffington Post. (I use aol email)
"NRA Delivers Defiant Speech"
(Here Lundy)
de·fi·ant
adjective
characterized by defiance; boldly resistant or challenging:
de·fi·ance
noun
1.
a daring or bold resistance to authority or to any opposing force.
2.
open disregard; contempt (often followed by of ): defiance of danger; His refusal amounted to defiance.
3.
a challenge to meet in combat or in a contest.
I would have never put the headline as a defiant speech. I would have called it, "NRA Delivers Common Sense and Practical Solutions".