Inside the NRA's War Against Hillary Clinton
by Grace Wyler
News of Hillary Clinton's official entry into the 2016 White House race fell like a divine revelation upon Nashville's Music City Center this weekend, where more than 70,000 members of the National Rifle Association had gathered for the annual meeting of the nation's largest and most powerful gun organization. After years of warning that President Barack Obama is coming for America's guns, the NRA eagerly embraced a new target, directing its doomsday predictions toward the new Democratic presidential candidate.
NRA Executive Vice President and leading gun-rights agitator Wayne LaPierre gleefully led the charge, with a 20-minute speech devoted almost entirely to deranged, almost poetic Clinton-bashing.
"She's been coming after us for decades, degrading law-abiding gun owners all over this country and trying to dismantle our Second Amendment freedoms," he told a packed auditorium Friday. "Gun bans, magazine bans, import bans, federal licensing and registration of every gun and gun owner in America. Hillary Clinton hasn't met a gun-control bill that she couldn't support. She even used the White House to run Rosie O'Donnell's so-called 'Million Mom March!'"
He was just getting warmed up. "Whitewater-gate, Cattle-gate, Gennifer Flowers–gate," he chanted, ticking off Clinton scandals, some long forgotten by most of the general public. "Monica-gate, Benghazi-gate, Email-gate, Wiped Server–gate. Hillary Clinton has more 'gates' than a South Texas cattle ranch, and Americans know it.
"She will not bring a dawn of new promise and opportunity," he concluded ominously. "Hillary Rodham Clinton will bring a permanent darkness of deceit and despair forced upon the American people to endure."
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