NRA’s LaPierre To Biden: ‘You Keep Your Advice. We’ll Keep Our Guns’

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

IGOR BOBIC 11:28 AM EDT, FRIDAY MARCH 15, 2013

Wayne LaPierre, the head of the nation's top gun lobby the National Rifle Association, on Friday offered a rebuttal to Vice President Joe Biden's suggestion that gun owners seeking protection trade in assault weapons for a shotgun.

"You keep your advice. We'll keep our guns," said LaPierre at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. LaPierre further mocked Biden for his security detail in Washington.

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NRA’s Wayne LaPierre: ‘I’m Still Standing’

IGOR BOBIC 11:03 AM EDT, FRIDAY MARCH 15, 2013

Wayne LaPierre, the head of the nation's top gun lobby the National Rifle Association, on Friday offered a fearless defense of his mission to protect gun owners from government regulation in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. school shooting.

"I'm still standing, unapologetic and unflinching," he said at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. "They can call me crazy or anything else they want."

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NRA’s LaPierre: Chinese Hackers Could Grab Your Gun Records

The National Rifle Association has long warned that expanding gun background checks would ultimately lead to a national gun registry, the true goal of advocates seeking to regulate firearms.

Wayne LaPierre, the head of the nation's top gun lobby, on Friday floated the specter of foreign hackers originating in China as yet another reason America would be better off without expanded checks on backgrounds of prospective gun purchasers.

"What’s the point of registering lawful gun owners anyway?" said LaPierre at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland. "So newspapers can print those names and addresses for criminals and gangs to access? So that list can be hacked by foreign entities like the Chinese, who recently hacked Pentagon computers? So that list can be handed over to the Mexican government that, oh by the way, has already requested it."

He added: "In the end, there are only two reasons for government to create that federal registry of gun owners — to tax them and to take them."

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[rdharma]

1. Gun Owner List?

How about the NRA member list that they sell to everybody?

[Bjorn Against]

2. The NRA seems to want Biden to be President however

Considering that they have a member of their Board of Directors that advocates for Obama's assassination.

[onehandle]

3. Domestic Terrorist Enabler Says Something. nt

[maxsolomon]

4. Pathological Sophistry

NPR had a report this a.m. about gun manufacturers and the NRA - the gist being that the NRA bullies manufacturers, rather than acting as their lobbying arm.

Gave an example of a boycott of Smith & Wesson because they hadn't toed the NRA line.

[Lurks Often]

6. Don't agree, the way I remember it,

the boycott of S&W started among individual gun owners because S&W was seen to sell out to the Clinton Administration. Whether it started among individual gun owners or not, it was a successful boycott as S&W was forced to shut down 2 manufacturing plants.

[maxsolomon]

8. That's what they said.

The report was making the point that manufacturers are neutral on several proposals - such as Universal Background checks for all firearm sales - as all their products get sold through the background check system already.

But they dare not cross the NRA, and the example of the S&W boycott was offered as to why.

[Lurks Often]

12. Pretty much of a moot point

whether started at grass roots level or started from the NRA down, the boycott was successful and led to the sale of S&W by it's British owners to an minor American company for something like $15 million and the assumption of another $30 million in debt. I believe that Tompkins, the British owner, had paid $110 million for S&W just 4 years earlier.

[sangsaran]

5. If your guns are such good protection

why are you afraid of criminals knowing where you live, exactly?

[Lurks Often]

7. Because every gun owner I know and have talked to

is perfectly fine and would really like to go the rest of their lives without shooting someone.

We also have the same right privacy as everybody else.

[Macoy51]

9. ID the Non-Gun Owners

I don’t mind having to put a sign in my window indentifying me as a gun owner……if people, who don’t own guns, put up a sign to that effect in their windows. Let see who the gangs single out first.


Macoy

[ForgoTheConsequence]

11. Gangs?

Are those the same roaming gangs Lindsey Graham was talking about?