NRA's LaPierre Calls AR-15 Bans A Denial Of 'Human Right'

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The disgraced head of the NRA, Wayne La Pierre, opened up today's convention by offering up meaningless affirmations of sorrow for the victims of Uvalde, while uttering mealy-mouthed words, lies and claims about Second amendment rights.

"Restricting the fundamental human right of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is not the answer and never has been," La Pierre said, as if AR-15s have entered the list of human rights.

https://crooksandliars.com/2022/05/ntas-lapierre-claims-banning-ar-15s

[Botany]

1. "Restricting the fundamental human right of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves ...."

NRA Was 'Foreign Asset' To Russia Ahead of 2016, New Senate Report Reveals



The National Rifle Association acted as a "foreign asset" for Russia in the period leading up to the 2016 election, according to a new investigation unveiled Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

Drawing on contemporaneous emails and private interviews, an 18-month probe by the Senate Finance Committee's Democratic staff found that the NRA underwrote political access for Russian nationals Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin more than previously known — even though the two had declared their ties to the Kremlin.


The report, available here, also describes how closely the gun rights group was involved with organizing a 2015 visit by some of its leaders to Moscow.

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The conclusions of the Senate investigation could have legal implications for the NRA, Wyden says.

https://www.npr.org/2019/09/27/764879242/nra-was-foreign-asset-to-russia-ahead-of-2016-new-senate-report-reveals

[Budi]

7. If ever there was a more fitting reason for AG Garland's KLEPTOCAPTURE

The NRA's affiliation & profiting via Russia certainly must fall under those guidelines of KleptoCapture, somehow.

Sieze the NRA.

[Botany]

9. In 2016 the Trump campaign along with others (see Ron Johnson, Rob Portman, ...) used the NRA ....

... to wash dirty Russian money which they then used for their campaigns and other "stuff." I don't know
if Russia is still sending money to the NRA but Ted Cruz has taken in 1/2 a million from the NRA in 2021
and 2022.

[Budi]

10. Yup. And the NRA Russia has its dirty hands in the Ukraine invasion as well.

Sieze the NRA assets

[milestogo]

13. He needs a lobotomy.

[GoCubsGo]

14. Oh, look! It's two walking bags of puke and shit!

A pox on both their houses.

[dalton99a]

2. People will starve if they can't use their AR-15s to get food

[True Dough]

3. That asshole doesn't know what "human" is

Cold, hard steel is the only thing that stirs his sinister soul.

[Claire Oh Nette]

4. He can not read...

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

I've searched high and low for the phrase "Human rights" "defend themselves" or "A5-15s" in the 2nd Amendment.

Military armaments belong in the military--you know, organized, regulated, trained, disciplined, drilled, militia and armed forces members who check their weapons in at night to the armories.

[Blue Owl]

5. I don't care if that's what the psychopath thinks

[gulliver]

6. License them, insure them, register them

That piece of filth has a defensible rat hole to fight from, the right of self-defense, twisted to justify the unjustifiable.

I despise assault rifles, and I see them as wholly unnecessary. Psychologically, I see them as the pushing and feeding of a kind of black hole spiral of hero fantasy and murderousness. Unfortunately, if we keep spiraling, the assault rifles may eventually become necessary. Then we'll be in Hell.

Maybe we're ready to start talking about treating guns as the right of sane, responsible citizens, but not others. Licensing, insuring, and registering guns might actually solve the problem as well as it can be solved.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. He's one sick assed mother fucker

[Budi]

11. He's worth over 20 million & that's just from his NRA Pres salary.

🤬

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

12. Traitorous Russian asset says what?