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kpete

(71,991 posts)
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 09:12 PM Feb 2013

NRA's "Dark Secret" LaPierre "A Menace With A Gun"

LaPierre did not come from gun culture. He wasn’t a hunter, a marksman, a military man or a Second Amendment activist. “He’s not a true believer,” says NRA biographer Osha Gray Davidson. “He’s the first NRA chief you can say that about.” According to NRA legend, LaPierre is actually a menace with a gun. NRA’s PR team once thought it would be sexy to film LaPierre at a firing range. “It was a nightmare,” an NRA staffer told Davidson. LaPierre was aiming downrange for the camera when an engineer called for a sound check. To answer the man, LaPierre swung around, but he failed to lower his rifle, aiming it directly at the engineer – before someone took the gun away from LaPierre. The incident, terrifying at the time, became a dark joke at NRA headquarters. Staffers behind on their projects were threatened that they’d have to “go hunting with Wayne.” (The NRA’s press office did not reply to Rolling Stone inquiries.) — The NRA vs. America | Rolling Stone

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-nra-vs-america-20130131?page=2

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NRA's "Dark Secret" LaPierre "A Menace With A Gun" (Original Post) kpete Feb 2013 OP
He's a total ass TheCowsCameHome Feb 2013 #1
you can always tell kenny blankenship Feb 2013 #2
He's an elitist with armed guards. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #3
His Viet Nam draft deferment should disqualify him from owning a weapon randr Feb 2013 #4
Exactly! SunSeeker Feb 2013 #5
in Common Sense World, that's how it would be. BlancheSplanchnik Feb 2013 #6
Yes, common sense is not very common. SunSeeker Feb 2013 #9
He's in it for the money.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #7
You answered my question Canuckistanian Feb 2013 #8
Money really is the root of all evil. Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #11
Bingo...Why He's So Beligerant KharmaTrain Feb 2013 #10
He's playing to the gun customers.... Spitfire of ATJ Feb 2013 #12

kenny blankenship

(15,689 posts)
2. you can always tell
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 09:30 PM
Feb 2013

They put off an instantly recognized negative vibration that says I don't know what the fuck I'm doing and I'm liable to hurt myself and anyone around me!

The other people who scare me this much are the whackjobs who openly carry.

randr

(12,412 posts)
4. His Viet Nam draft deferment should disqualify him from owning a weapon
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 11:15 PM
Feb 2013

His family physician said he had a "nervous condition"?

SunSeeker

(51,557 posts)
5. Exactly!
Wed Feb 6, 2013, 11:21 PM
Feb 2013

If his nervous condition kept him from carrying a gun for his country, it should also keep him from carrying a gun in the civilian world.

KharmaTrain

(31,706 posts)
10. Bingo...Why He's So Beligerant
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:46 AM
Feb 2013

You can tell this dude isn't a hunter or target shooter or "sportsman"...all of his rhetoric is paranoid, black helicopters stuff these days. It's all around "protection" and shows what a scared, paranoid person he must be. The dude is a lobbyist...and he was installed by the gun companies to sell guns. Mission accomplished.

 

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)
12. He's playing to the gun customers....
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:57 AM
Feb 2013

The number of people who are running out and buying assault rifles is actually small but the number of guns sold is high as people are buying up tons of them HOPING for a ban so they can resell them for 10 times what they paid for them.

Makes you wonder where these bumpkin buyers talking to God on a two way radio get the money to buy these weapons. Some of them are running around in the woods wearing more than their truck is worth. It's scary to think that some of them might even work for the government they claim they hate.

"Oh, I don't work for the gubmunt, I work at Lockheed Martin building jets for the Pentagon."

Lowest bidder in the IQ department.

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