NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre (Photo: Screen grab/C-SPAN)

(CNSNews.com) - Car rental companies, banks, airlines, hotels, even a home security company are among the growing list to sever their discount programs with the National Rifle Association following the mass shooting at Majory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. on February 14.



The NRA responded to the corporate backlash over the weekend, calling it "an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community."



The NRA noted that its "law-abiding members" had nothing to do with the failure of the school's security, the failure of the nation's mental health system, the failure of the National Instant Background Check System or the "cruel failures" of both federal and local law enforcement.



NRA spokeswoman Dan Loesch recapped some of those failures in a tweet on Sunday:



Recap:

- Parkland murderer’s neighbors, family called Broward Sheriff

- 45 responses at least to murderer’s home

- He messaged threats to kill classmates which is a felony under FL statute

- Assaulted parent and classmates

- Took b(u)llets and knives to school

- Sheriff blames NRA



The NRA said those companies that are punishing its members are engaged in a "shameful display of political and civic cowardice."



It says the brands that are abandoning the NRA will be replaced in time by companies eager to serve patriots who are commited to constitutional freedoms.



"The loss of a discount will neither scare nor distract one single NRA member from our mission to stand and defend the individual freedoms that have always made America the greatest nation in the world," the statement concluded.



The full statement reads as follows: