Maher: NRA guests Perry, Palin and Nugent are ‘The Axis of A-holes’
The news that Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) was joining other Republican stalwarts at this weekend’s National Rifle Association (NRA) convention struck Real Time host Bill Maher as a perfect fit on Friday.
“Ted Nugent is speaking, he’s speaking, Sarah Palin is speaking,” Maher said after playing a clip from Perry’s entrance video, which shows him shooting eggs to the tune of a Nugent song. “The Axis of Assholes.”
But the video, Maher said, also showed the problems of romanticizing firearms, to which MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell pointed out that most Americans do not own guns.
“Gun ownership is a minority activity,” O’Donnell said. “The rate of gun ownership in this country is declining significantly. That’s why the NRA is pushing this so hard. And what you have, in terms of gun sales, is simply fanatic collectors.”
But conservative columnist and activist Mattie Duppler dismissed O’Donnell’s allegations.
“I’m from Wisconsin,” she said. “This is what people do on weekends for fun. I don’t understand why we’re concerned about Rick Perry shooting a gun.”
“They’re selling them to 5-year-olds, that’s why,” Maher replied.
Maher and his panelists also had a spirited argument about the recent Farleigh Dickinson University survey that showed 44 percent of Republicans thought an armed revolution “may one day be necessary,” as he pilloried the idea that the Second Amendment protected them against tyranny.
“Thinking the Second Amendment protects you from tyranny is like thinking the First Amendment protects you from Thor,” he said.
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