One feeble cheer for NRA spokesman Wayne LaPierre. Not that I support anything he says, but he is the most effective weapon we have at this moment to turn semi-reasonable people into a reasonable position on gun control.
His statements are so patently false, his reasoning so utterly unreasonable, that it makes their case look worse every time he opens his mouth on TV.
Today, on FoxNews -- we couldn't have picked a better venue -- LaPierre claimed that the president wanted armed security for his own children but opposed it for others. Wallace pointed out that the president's children face a larger threat than most.
LaPierre: "Tell that to the people at Newtown."
Chris Wallace: "Do you really think that the president's children are the same kind of
target as every schoolchild in America? . . . It's
ridiculous, and you know it, sir."
He also claimed that Obama is going to "take your guns" and establish a universal gun registry. I still don't understand why that's so terrible. Don't we have a universal registry of people with licenses to drive cars -- or at least state-wide registries that are accessible by other government agencies? What's so bad about that?
Later LaPierre claimed, "If you limit the American public's access to semi-automatic technology, you limit their ability to survive." He didn't explain how semi-automatic guns are necessary for survival."
So one feeble cheer to keep LaPierre talking and making non-sense. Maybe his own NRA members will realize he is not representing them or their best interests.
Ralph
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On "This Week" show this morning, Paul Krugman said that the debate about gun control had shifted, that the NRA's "bizarre" stance may now be working against it.
ReplyDelete"The NRA is now revealed as an insane organization, and that matters quite a lot," he said.