In light of the shooting at the Navy Yard this past week, NRA Vice President Wayne LaPierre joined host David Gregory on Meet the Press yesterday, where the two engaged in the following back-and-forth:
Gregory: "This is similar. After Newtown, you were outspoken in saying more security was the answer ... This was the Navy Yard. There were armed guards there, Mr. LaPierre. Does that not undermine your argument?"
LaPierre: "No, the whole country knows the problem is there weren't enough good guys with guns! When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped..."
Gregory: "Can it be the sliding scale where, you do have armed guards there, but now there's not enough armed guards? And when it comes to schools, if only we had an armed guard, and then if we had teachers with weapons, then we could stop it. I mean, where does it stop?"
"Good guys" with guns? What, like the stories I've recently read of police officers shooting and killing unarmed men? Good guys like that?
With Mr. LaPierre's logic (or lack there of), I imagine he'd react to a rape as follows:
"No, the whole country knows the problem is there weren't enough good guys with penises! When the good guys with penises got there, it stopped..."
Speaking of stop, I wish Mr. LaPierre would do us all a favor and just stop talking. Thanks.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/22/2661551/navy-yard-nra/
Gregory: "This is similar. After Newtown, you were outspoken in saying more security was the answer ... This was the Navy Yard. There were armed guards there, Mr. LaPierre. Does that not undermine your argument?"
LaPierre: "No, the whole country knows the problem is there weren't enough good guys with guns! When the good guys with guns got there, it stopped..."
Gregory: "Can it be the sliding scale where, you do have armed guards there, but now there's not enough armed guards? And when it comes to schools, if only we had an armed guard, and then if we had teachers with weapons, then we could stop it. I mean, where does it stop?"
"Good guys" with guns? What, like the stories I've recently read of police officers shooting and killing unarmed men? Good guys like that?
With Mr. LaPierre's logic (or lack there of), I imagine he'd react to a rape as follows:
"No, the whole country knows the problem is there weren't enough good guys with penises! When the good guys with penises got there, it stopped..."
Speaking of stop, I wish Mr. LaPierre would do us all a favor and just stop talking. Thanks.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/09/22/2661551/navy-yard-nra/
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