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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNRA head wants to debate Obama on guns ... a week after skipping Obama town hall on guns
Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association (NRA), speaks during a news conference in Washington December 21, 2012. NRA, the powerful U.S. gun rights lobby, went on the offensive on Friday arguing that schools should have ar
A week after refusing to participate in a town hall event at which President Obama responded to both allies and opponents on gun issues, the National Rifle Association is posturing about wanting to debate Obama. Ill meet you, for a one-on-one, one-hour debate, Wayne LaPierre, the gun lobby groups president, says over ominous music in a belligerent video. His proposal for the debate involves:
a mutually agreed-upon moderator, on any network that will take it. No prescreened questions and no gasbag answers. Americans will judge for themselves who they trust, and believe, on this issue. You, or the NRA.
Very tough, Mr. LaPierre.
But the evidence suggests Americans have already judged for themselves. The NRA has its adherents, and NRA adherents can be the kind of dedicated single-issue voters who give politicians something to fear. But the majority of Americans have made up their minds: They support stricter gun laws, particularly for background checks. The NRA may be able to obstruct progress, and Im sure its membership thrills to the dick-swinging of LaPierres video, but its defending unpopular positions.
http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/1/14/1469854/-NRA-head-wants-to-debate-Obama-on-guns-a-week-after-skipping-Obama-town-hall-on-guns
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NRA head wants to debate Obama on guns ... a week after skipping Obama town hall on guns (Original Post)
Katashi_itto
Jan 2016
OP
Think of the ratings, though. Get the network that covers it to donate 90% of the income
randys1
Jan 2016
#3
spanone
(135,791 posts)1. fuck him, missed his chance
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)2. Wo the phuck are you, Wayne? Obama is the President...LaPierre is just
some festering boil without a functioning brain cell.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)9. Yes, and dictating the terms?
Run up an alley and holler fish, Wayne.
randys1
(16,286 posts)3. Think of the ratings, though. Get the network that covers it to donate 90% of the income
to inner city schools
See if the prick is still willing to do it
Hell, you could sell this pay per view style
Would any of us miss this?
No
Would any teapartier?
NO
i smell BIG bucks
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)4. Bring it baby.
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)5. Conveniently, Wayne has already disqualified himself.
no gasbag answers
underpants
(182,603 posts)6. Were all those people too creepy for you?
creepy for them is REALLY CREEPY.
Johonny
(20,818 posts)7. Presidents don't typically debate personalities. They don't have to Wayne. He enforces the laws.
That's what he does. Circus clowns don't get his time, sorry.
Logical
(22,457 posts)8. How about they go on jeopary first! Nt
SwankyXomb
(2,030 posts)10. Now the NRA can claim he's afraid of them
and use it to fundraise from scum like the Bundys.