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As NRA convention opens in Houston, Giffords’ husband urges leadership to step down
Chief executive has allowed gun lobby to be bought by firearms industry, says Mark Kelly, husband of Gabby Giffords Mark Kelly, the husband of the former US Congress member Gabby Giffords who was shot in the head in the 2011 Tucson shooting, has called on the leadership of the National…
Connecticut governor: LaPierre and NRA are ‘clowns at the circus’
Democratic Connecticut Gov. Dan Mallow on Sunday lashed out at National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre and other gun control opponents as “clowns at the circus” who were just trying to sell more guns. After Connecticut responded to the December mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School by enacting…
LaPierre: ‘A violent rapist deserves to face a good woman with a gun’
National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre says that a “good woman with a gun” is the best way to deal with violent rapists. Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, the NRA CEO lashed out at the Obama administration for releasing thousands of undocumented immigrants —…
NRA’s Wayne LaPierre responds to Obama’s State of the Union
Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the National Rifle Association, responded to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Thursday. Watch video, courtesy of the NRA, below:…
LaPierre: Ban assault weapons and ‘you limit the ability to survive’
National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre on Sunday argued that banning assault weapons limited the ‘ability to survive’ and that high-capacity magazines should not be outlawed because women need more bullets. During an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace pointed out to LaPierre that Supreme Court Justice…
NRA chief Wayne LaPierre feels the heat at Senate hearing
Wayne LaPierre, the firebrand executive vice-president of the National Rifle Association, came under intense questioning from Democratic members of the senate judiciary committee who forced him to admit that the NRA’s opposition to gun control has grown more extreme over the past 15 years. In the course of a four-hour…
NRA issues point-blank ‘no’ on gun control
The NRA, the most powerful gun lobby in the United States, ruled out any support Sunday for greater regulation of firearms or ammunition magazines after the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre. Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said planned legislation to outlaw military-style assault weapons…
Psychiatry professor says NRA is ‘reinforcing stereotypes’ about mentally ill
A psychiatry professor joined MSNBC guest host Joy Reid on Saturday in taking issue with what Reid called an “artificial link” drawn by the National Rifle Association between mass shootings and the mentally ill. “I think he was talking to a particular base,” said Dr. Jonathan Metzl, who teaches at…
O’Donnell calls NRA’s LaPierre a ‘lobbyist for mass-murderers’
Friday night on “The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell,” host Lawrence O’Donnell excoriated NRA head Wayne LaPierre’s press conference from Friday morning. In an extended diatribe, O’Donnell called LaPierre a “lobbyist for mass-murderers,” and sarcastically marveled that of course the NRA’s response to the Sandy Hook massacre is the one…
“More Guns” Theory Disproved During Presser
Because I’m tired of illustrating these posts with mean-looking guns. During his presser today, Wayne LaPierre touted the hoary old fantasy that the gun industry has been using to sell more guns for decades now, that if an armed civilian or security guard was on-scene during a shooting, that’s all…
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