Tag Archives: Wayne LaPierre

The Washington Examiner reports: Organizers for the Conservative Political Action Conference withheld the name of a top National Rifle Association executive from the schedule of speakers they released on Monday, just days after a young shooter killed 17 children and adults in a Parkland, Fla., high school. But sources familiar with the situation said Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice …

The NRA is a “presenting sponsor” of CPAC 2018. One week after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz went on a killing rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida with his legally purchased AR-15 rifle, the National Rifle Association’s (NRA) CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre will speak at the American Conservative Union’s CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference). Other speakers …

The New York Daily News reports: The NRA’s top gun revealed a paranoid vision of the world in a Friday speech that painted Democratic protesters as well-paid criminals bent on terrorizing the country. National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre unloaded on the left, saying its demonstrators are paid $1,500 a week to wreak havoc. “They’re angry. They’re militant and they’re …

The Trace reports: The National Rifle Association is vowing to defend Donald Trump from “the forces who conspired” against his candidacy. The new president “will need every ounce of energy we can muster,” NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre declares in an ad released this week. “And he has no more powerful ally than the NRA.” The ad begins with …

The Associated Press reports: Firearms enthusiasts who embraced Donald Trump’s campaign and his full-throated support of the Second Amendment are expecting a sweeping expansion of gun rights under his administration and a Congress firmly in Republican hands. Among their priorities: eliminating gun-free zones at schools, reducing requirements for background checks and ensuring that concealed carry handgun permits from one state …

“On behalf of the more than five million members of the National Rifle Association, and especially on behalf of our members from the law enforcement community, I want to express the deep anguish all of us feel for the heroic Dallas law enforcement officers who were killed and wounded, as well as to those who so bravely ran toward danger …

And the NRA bears no responsibility for putting that assault weapon in his hands. CBS News reports: Appearing on “Face the Nation” Sunday, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre blamed a “politically correct” federal government for the fact that the Orlando nightclub massacre gunman was taken off an FBI watch list. He also said Americans need to be …

From the New York Daily News: National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, after unloading with both barrels on President Obama, challenged the Commander-in-Chief to an hour-long debate on guns. “I’ll meet you for a one-on-one, one-hour debate — with a mutually agreed moderator — on any network that will take it,” LaPierre declared in a video released Thursday on the …

A few days ago the New York Daily News earned the furor of Teabagistan with its God Isn’t Fixing This headline, which it followed up with a front page that called NRA head Wayne LaPierre a “terrorist.” Today the tabloid trolled its critics with a blazing Everything Is Awesome! headline complete with photos of cute animals. But pay attention to …

One day after their God Isn’t Fixing This headline infuriated Teabagistan, the New York Daily News today listed NRA head Wayne “Jihadi” LaPierre in a front page photo panel of infamous terrorists. You’ll note that the first photo on the bottom left is Christian terrorist Robert Dear.

Teabagistan is flipping out over a column published yesterday in the New York Daily News. An excerpt: One terrorist group is responsible for more civilian deaths since December 2012 (the Sandy Hook massacre) than Al Qaeda, Boko Haram, Hamas and the Taliban. Yet it is the only nearly-state sponsored terrorist group that is not listed by the U.S. State Department …

“There weren’t enough good guys with guns.”

“After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.” – NRA head Wayne LaPierre, writing …

NRA head Wayne LaPierre says that the government is already failing to prosecute people who illegally apply to purchase a gun, therefore it’s pointless to impose background checks on people that buy guns at gun shows.

“Do we really want to live in a world of police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors, X-ray scanners, and warrantless physical searches? We see this culture in our airports: witness the shabby spectacle of once proud, happy Americans shuffling through long lines while uniformed TSA agents bark orders. This is the world of government provided ‘security,’ a world far too …

Even the far right wing New York Post piled on.