{"id":9768,"date":"2012-12-22T04:15:03","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T12:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=9768"},"modified":"2012-12-22T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T12:15:03","slug":"a-voice-of-pure-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/22\/a-voice-of-pure-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"A Voice of Pure Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me begin with one fact.  There was an armed security guard at Columbine High School<\/a> in 1999, and another was nearby.  They were unable to prevent the massacre there.  There is no way that Wayne LaPierre does not know this.  Therefor he has to know that his so-called solution  to gun violence is hogwash.  From that it follows that he and the leadership of the NRA would rather see Americans slaughtered than allow the gun industry to lose a penny in bloody profit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"22LaPierre\"Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, would have been better advised to remain wherever he had been hiding after the Newtown, Conn., massacre, rather than appear at a news conference on Friday<\/a>. No one seriously believed the N.R.A. when it said it would contribute something \u201cmeaningful\u201d to the discussion about gun violence. The organization\u2019s very existence is predicated on the nation being torn in half over guns. Still, we were stunned by Mr. LaPierre\u2019s mendacious, delusional, almost deranged rant. Mr. LaPierre looked wild-eyed at times as he said the killing was the fault of the media, songwriters and singers and the people who listen to them, movie and TV scriptwriters and the people who watch their work, advocates of gun control, video game makers and video game players<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

The N.R.A., which devotes itself to destroying compromise on guns, is blameless. So are unscrupulous and unlicensed dealers who sell guns to criminals, and gun makers who bankroll Mr. LaPierre so he can help them peddle ever-more-lethal, ever-more-efficient products, and politicians who kill even modest controls over guns. <\/p>\n

His solution to the proliferation of guns<\/a>, including semiautomatic rifles designed to kill people as quickly as possible, is to put more guns in more places. Mr. LaPierre would put a police officer in every school and compel teachers and principals to become armed guards<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Photo credit: Mother Jones<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n

Like most other influential Republicans, he claims the damage they have done is everyone else\u2019s fault.<\/font><\/p>\n

Lawrence O’Donnell discussed LaPierre’s shameful diatribe with Chris Murphy (D-CT) and Eugene Robinson.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s an easy way to derail La Pierre\u2019s absurd proposal.  I ball-parked the cost of putting an armed guard in every school in America at around $7 billion.  Would LaPierre agree to funding that effort with a tax on every gun and every round of ammunition sold.  Frankly, I think his insane rant yesterday would appear calm and collected in comparison to his reaction to that suggestion.<\/font><\/p>\n

Finally, let me say that I am not referring to you of you are one of the majority of NRA members, whom LaPierre\u2019s proposal does not represent.  The only thing you are doing wrong is staying in an organization that does not represent your views.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let me begin with one fact.  There was an armed security guard at Columbine High School in 1999, and another was nearby.  They were unable to prevent the massacre there.  There is no way that Wayne LaPierre does not know this.  Therefor he has to know that his so-called solution  to gun violence is hogwash.  […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}