The NRA breaks its silence

[ebacon]

Originally Posted by Boreas

Here's the whole press conference..... if you can stand it.

John

Tried. Couldn't.

I did read the transcript but it is even worse than the press conference. The transcript includes those ridiculous type-face changes that right wingers constantly use to emphasize points. It reads as if yelling something is supposed to make it more persuasive.

Bottom line is that LaPierre's suggestion to put armed guards in schools is silly. First, statistics tell us that the armed guards will be standing around doing nothing. They probably don't want to do it and we don't want to pay for it. Second, LaPierre's plan brings guns into schools. Matters not if they are in the hands of cops. Eventually a kid will wrestle a gun from a cop and we will be back to square one.

On a more positive note I think he had good points on violence in the media, but his condescending delivery probably turned off media leaders. They might even step it up just to spite LaPierre. He should have made a more passionate plea.

All in all a disappointing performance.

[bobabode]

We have seen the last dying gasp of wingnuttery today courtesy of the NRA's Wayne Lapierre. The sputtering, lurching, trembling and drooling monster needs some slaying-methinks. Figuratively speaking, of course.

It is time for you sportsmen & women to stage a coup and take back your organization. Although the brand may be fatally damaged by the mfgs. shills, it still is your duty.

I wonder how soon after the last tiny body has been laid to rest in New Town, Conneticutt will that paragon of virtue, Walmart, have Bushmaster's back on the shelves? I'll bet there is much handwringing and gnashing of teeth this Christmas season over lost profits in the boardrooms all over this land.

This is how the corporatocracy will finally declare that profits are a national security issue of the highest importance. The thrust of LaPierre's argument smacks of fascism. The media is to blame? Oh, please! There goes the first amendment, me boyos. Can you really think that holding on to your pee shooters is far behind? Mass murder is bad for business, doncha know?

Real nice, you gun totin', rootin' tootin, shoot' em up at all costs idjits. You have got your worst nightmare come true. A federal nightmarish police state that will most certainly take those extensions of your manhood away. Good luck fighting off those HomSec Apache gunships with chainguns and Hellfire missles with your pissant black pipe muzzleloader's that you've fashioned in your basements. Real nice.

See you in those FEMA camps out in the Mojave sun, I'll be the lefty diggin' a slit trench right beside you. Watch out for those scorpions and tarantulas because they'll be the last meal you'll get. Peace, out.

[dmax99]

Gimme some a what he's smokin'....

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by dmax99

Gimme some a what he's smokin'....

Puff, puff - pass> don't hotbox it, now. Peace,love and dope. Now get the hell off of my lawn!~

[icenine]

There are violent movies in Germany Japan and every where else.
There are certainly violent video games in nations all around the globe.
Yet the murder rate by handguns is very small compared to our deaths by guns.
Oh yes violent insane people are in these countries too.

They just do not have machine guns for sale in all those places. We do.
That NRA press conference was the most obnoxious thing I have seen in recent memory.
It reminded me of 1984 where the picture of Big Brother is everywhere and there are all these untrue slogans posted up that we are to believe.

War is Peace.
Hate is Love.

That press conference was Orwell's doublethink in practice here in the USA of 2012.
That moron might as well have had a sign above him saying Arbeit Mach Frei

[epifanatic]

Originally Posted by bobabode

We have seen the last dying gasp of wingnuttery today courtesy of the NRA's Wayne Lapierre. The sputtering, lurching, trembling and drooling monster needs some slaying-methinks. Figuratively speaking, of course.

It is time for you sportsmen & women to stage a coup and take back your organization. Although the brand may be fatally damaged by the mfgs. shills, it still is your duty.

I wonder how soon after the last tiny body has been laid to rest in New Town, Conneticutt will that paragon of virtue, Walmart, have Bushmaster's back on the shelves? I'll bet there is much handwringing and gnashing of teeth this Christmas season over lost profits in the boardrooms all over this land.

This is how the corporatocracy will finally declare that profits are a national security issue of the highest importance. The thrust of LaPierre's argument smacks of fascism. The media is to blame? Oh, please! There goes the first amendment, me boyos. Can you really think that holding on to your pee shooters is far behind? Mass murder is bad for business, doncha know?

Real nice, you gun totin', rootin' tootin, shoot' em up at all costs idjits. You have got your worst nightmare come true. A federal nightmarish police state that will most certainly take those extensions of your manhood away. Good luck fighting off those HomSec Apache gunships with chainguns and Hellfire missles with your pissant black pipe muzzleloader's that you've fashioned in your basements. Real nice.

See you in those FEMA camps out in the Mojave sun, I'll be the lefty diggin' a slit trench right beside you. Watch out for those scorpions and tarantulas because they'll be the last meal you'll get. Peace, out.

post of the year...

[epifanatic]

not mine but, spot on:

I have been a gun owner and hunter for over 35 years. Wayne La Pierre and others like him, who have taken over the NRA, are the reason that I have never been a member of this group. The NRA used to represent the interests of hunters and sportsmen, but the NRA leadership has been taken over by crazy right wing insurrectionists who think that the enemy is our own government. The NRA leadership believes that our government is an unwanted overbearing tyrant from which they must protect themselves with their own armed militias. There is no doubt in my mind that they would be happier yet if they could freely purchase grenade and rocket launchers and a few M1 tanks. Their answer to everything is that we need more guns that will kill more people quicker. They have completely corrupted the American legitimacy of owning guns for hunting, sports and protection. They have become our own home grown group of treasonous terrorists.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by epifanatic

post of the year...

Awww, shucks. I'm blushin' now. You shoulda seen the first draft!

[Zeke]

Any solution that involves adding more variables designed to create bodily harm into our schools is not a solution.

That's like saying the key to world peace is for everyone to possess nukes.

[merrylander]

I guess I was correct when I posted thatit would not make any difference if they broke wind - a good fart would have conveyed more intelligence than Lapierre did.