N.R.A. Leader Denounces Obama’s Call for Gun Control
Source: NYT
Wayne LaPierre, the executive director of the National Rifle Association, angrily accused President Obama on Tuesday of demonizing law-abiding gun owners and of wanting to put every private personal firearms transaction right under the thumb of the federal government.
In a fiery speech at a hunting conference in Nevada, Mr. LaPierre criticized Mr. Obamas Inaugural Address on Monday when the president said Americans should not mistake absolutism for principle.
That reference, Mr. LaPierre said, was intended as an attack on the N.R.A. and gun owners who believe that the Second Amendment to the Constitution provides an absolute right to bear arms.
I urge our president to use caution when attacking clearly defined absolutes in favor of his principles, Mr. LaPierre said. When absolutes are abandoned for principles, the U.S. Constitution becomes a blank slate for anyones graffiti.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/us/politics/wayne-lapierre-of-nra-has-angry-response-to-obama.html
LaPierre's been banging this "Obama taking away guns" drum for a LONG time, including Apr. 2012 as Mike Malloy points out:
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)msongs
(67,496 posts)iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)who said the agents at the oklahoma city building deserved that bomb because they were nazis ..
sure as hell aint no liberal.. and they dont need to be a democrat.
that garbage shouldnt be tolerated by anybody.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)We've had thread after thread about it, and poll after poll. Fuck the NRA, now, can we move on?
MightyMopar
(735 posts)Not saying all or even most the Gungeoneers are trolls but many have been outed lately.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)And a couple long-time regulars.
On the other hand, of the remainder, I don't see too many, maybe 3 that oppose new regs like registration. Some post on the feasibility hurdles of making it happen at all, but I recall even a few of the 'regulars' posting GD threads about taking an about face on registration and a couple other issues.
(Gains me nothing, I've been pro-registration since early DU2)
ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)government are nazis who are trying to take away all your rights and exterminate you drum as well for a long ass time...
hes the reason poppy bush left the NRA..
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association.html
Archae
(46,373 posts)He'll do any tricks for the gun and ammo makers.
That's all the GSA is. A sales group.
SunSeeker
(51,797 posts)Doesn't he know the American people now realize Emporer LaPierre has no clothes? And his bare ass ain't pretty.
Shilo
(101 posts)its scares me even more that these people have guns period.
AllyCat
(16,260 posts)Who cares what he thinks?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)one of the problems is that it seems La Puke has no principles
and he refuses to say the magic word ...... 'REGULATED'
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Digital Puppy
(496 posts)MitchRomney
(1 post)Master LaPiere (pepe la phew):
Take your assinine mis-interpretation of the 2nd amendment and your largest gun and shove them up your reamed out tuckas, and fire away.
Paladin
(28,283 posts)No, I Don't Think So.
TomChicago
(29 posts)You want to drive a car, get a license. You want to shoot a gun, get a license. I wish these cranks would stop trying to wave the Constitution as your flag over their cause. They have no interest in a standing militia, for fuck's sake. They are a lobbying group for gun manufacturers. Most of their rank and file supports control of guns.
geomon666
(7,512 posts)Now we know for an absolute certainty where this organization and its members stand and can now act accordingly. Thanks Wayne!
bucolic_frolic
(43,476 posts)but not to get a gun?
frylock
(34,825 posts)well. regulated. militia.