I FUCKING HATE THESE PEOPLE

[WilliamPitt]

National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre defiantly blamed violent video games and movies, the media, gun-free zones in schools and other factors during the organization's first public statement following the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn. last week.

"The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said, asking Congress to immediately appropriate the money to put a police officer in every single school in the country.

The NRA executive's statement was nothing short of defiant in the face of mounting discussion of the need for tighter restrictions on guns — including renewing a ban on assault weapons — in the wake of last week's shooting.

The rest: http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/21/16068647-defiant-nra-leader-rejects-gun-controls-asks-to-put-police-in-schools?lite

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Thought the RW wanted local control of schools. No damned police in my schools!!

[livetohike]

3. He took no questions. My question would be: How would one police officer

protect every classroom that has windows to the outside of the building and other entrances besides the front entrance?

He's a coward who lives in fear 24/7. It must suck to be him.

[Vox Moi]

4. Where can I get my 'Good Guy' uniform?

Is it bulletproof?

[ecstatic]

5. Me too. I feel bad saying that

because hate is such a strong word, but their "values" are disgusting and infuriating.

[Rex]

6. I am going to start refering to them as a terrorist organization.

They want to hold terror and fear over the heads of our children.

[valerief]

7. We all hate them and their greed and their gun fetishism and their inhumanity. nt

[DinahMoeHum]

8. Well, this ain't our daddies' NRA, that's for sure.

Wayne LP & Co. have degraded the NRA from a respected source of instruction for safe, proper firearms handling to nothing more than a thuggish lobby for firearms manufacturers.

I know a number of sports range shooters and hunters who won't sign up for the NRA until Wayne LP and his kind are gone from the scene. One way or another.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. The instruction/marksmanship/competition side of NRA still exists

But they're not in the news like Mad Wayne and his political side of NRA.

[barbtries]

9. i hate them too.

and i hate them for making me hate as well.

[madmom]

11. Guns don't kill people, but video games do? How does that work?..n/t

[whatchamacallit]

13. Exactly. Let us know when somebody beats someone to death with the game disc case n/t

[alterfurz]

24. "Guns don't kill people...

...but NRA people who own Congress people make it easier for crazy people to get guns & kill innocent people." -- John Fugelsang

Guns don't kill people, people kill people...and so would monkeys, if monkeys had guns.

[Gregorian]

12. In Les Miserables, one sees clearly the difference between mentalities.

Is trust stupidity? Is it weakness? And what is life worth without it?

To wield a gun is to claim that one's own life is more valuable than another person's life.

Are we one, or are we a bunch of individuals struggling on our own? What are we? I claim we determine who we are. And arming everyone makes us just a bunch of cruel individuals.

[Bucky]

14. Who's most pro-gun with these people is a game of who's got the biggest wiener.

People who support their ideas but are not in their organization are coming to more moderate positions. But you put a buncha gun lobbyists in a room together to formulate a compromise and they're gonna come back doubled-down and ready to shoot anyone who suggests babysitters use time outs instead of winging their unruly charges.

[Raffi Ella]

15. They're repulsive.

But! They've shown their asses this morning: I think it's another "47%" moment.

[Shampoobra]

16. Caps lock never solved anything

Also, keep in mind that this is the very best thing the NRA could have done for gun control (short of actually promoting meaningful gun control solutions).

Since Sandy Hook, the public sentiment regarding weapons of mass murder has tipped too far against the NRA for LaPierre's statements to do anything other than further fuel that anti-gun anger.

[marions ghost]

22. Good point

...let them shoot themselves in the foot...

Let them continue to say that routine massacres are worth the price of their "freedom."

[WiffenPoof]

17. Honestly...

...I was shocked that they took such a hard stance. Not a single word about gun control. I know, I know...how could I be shocked? I just thought in the wake of the shooting, even the NRA would soften its stance. I was wrong.

-Paige

[Shampoobra]

18. Me too ... I really expected them to implement a little self-preservation

Kind of a "we need to go out there and look like we're as concerned about these mass murders as the rest of the country, or we're through" approach.

Instead they gave us John Belushi's "kiss my ass" speech from Animal House.

[RiffRandell]

23. Same here.

I feel pretty fucking stupid because I was so appalled at the speech.

[liberalhistorian]

28. They had a week to come up with

some CYA sanitizing talking points, you'd think they would have done a helluva lot better than this doubling down, insanely tone-deaf, authoritarian bullshit. Unbefuckinglievable.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. I'll say one thing for 'em. They're predictable.

"Reasonable Solutions", right?

[arthritisR_US]

20. I hear ya and am with ya! n/t

[2naSalit]

21. LaPierre basically pulled up to his house on fire

with a gasoline tanker and aimed the hose directly at the center of the flame...

Someone needs to make sure he falls in to it with all those gun runners that are attached at his hip as well.

It's our mission and duty to see that they go down and right away. The demise of the NRA will be a major component in our salvation as a species.

[Skraxx]

25. I'm Actually Pretty Happy With Their Response

Couldn't have gone better as far as I'm concerned. Makes our job that much easier, and we can just ignore these cretins from here on out and get to work.

[tblue]

27. Can we buy them out?

Can we just take $x billion and buy out the gun manufacturers? The NRA is their lobby, right?, so if we take over their companies, let them have the profits that make this all worthwhile, can we just take the proverbial keys out of the hands of the proverbial drunks?

I'm fantasizing, yeah, but damn. We can't keep going like this.

[chalky]

29. I, for one, thought his response was hilarious.

Kind of like those scenes where Wile E Coyote is still running in the air six feet past the edge of the cliff.