National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre took the stage at the
Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday to defend his
organization one week after a gunman used an assault-style rifle to kill
17 people at a high school in Parkland, Florida.
LaPierre’s message, in short: A lot of things are to blame for school shootings, but guns aren’t among them.
“Their
solution is to make you ― all of you ― less free,” he said, in
reference to gun control proposals from what he called “elites” in the
U.S.
“They want to sweep right under the carpet the failure of
school security, the failure of the family, the failure of America’s
school systems and even the unbelievable failure of the FBI,” LaPierre
added.
The speech did not appear on the conference’s official
schedule as a precaution in the aftermath of last week’s shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the Washington Examiner reports.
But the NRA chief always intended to speak at CPAC ― as he has for each
of the last 10 years.
LaPierre attacked imaginary evils rather
than defend his group’s hard-line policies, at one point accusing
Democrats of wanting to “eradicate all individual freedoms.”
Source: Yahoo News
Thursday, 22 February 2018
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