Copyrighted Image? DMCA | After remaining completely silent in the week following the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, the National Rifle Association (NRA) held a press conference in Washington D.C. on Friday to call for more guns in schools and blame the media for glorifying violence, while demonizing gun owners.
Below are the 10 craziest statements from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre's prepared remarks: 1) Gun-free schools zones "tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk." 2) "There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people. 3) "[V]iolent crime is increasing again for the first time in 19 years! Add another hurricane, terrorist attack or some other natural or man-made disaster, and you've got a recipe for a national nightmare... |
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