A worried nation wonders: How can we keep Wayne LaPierre safe?
After two horrific mass shootings, we come together as a nation to confront an urgent question: How are we going to keep Wayne LaPierre safe?
The longtime head of the National Rifle Association, it turns out, is worried sick about his personal safety in this gun culture.
After the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, he and his wife bravely waited out the uproar on the pink-sand beaches of the Bahamas, part of $542,000 in private jet trips and personal items the NRA bought for him. And now, thanks to some delightful reporting by my Post colleagues Carol D. Leonnig and Beth Reinhard, we know that last year’s Parkland massacre left LaPierre so fearful for his personal safety that he tried to have the NRA buy him a $6 million French-chateau-style mansion with nine bathrooms in a gated Dallas-area golf course community.
He told associates he was worried about his safety and thought his Virginia home was too easy for potential attackers to find.
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his life is so much more important than the thousands of those who have died. 
East Cobb resident and president of the National Rifle Association Carolyn Meadows has hired off-duty Cobb County Sheriff’s Office deputies to guard her home, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday.
Word of the detail began spreading on social media Wednesday evening and comes following three high-profile mass killings last week that totaled 33 deaths -- shootings in Gilroy, California, El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
“The deputies are working a part-time detail on behalf of the home/property owner. The home/property owner is paying for the deputy’s services,” said Glenn Daniel of the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office, who would not reveal when the detail began, how many off-duty personnel were hired or at what cost. “We do not release the details of how many deputies are working at any time due to safety of the deputies,” Daniel added.
It is unclear why Meadows had obtained the security personnel, and whether she or the NRA were paying for the detail. Efforts to reach Meadows were unsuccessful Thursday, while officials from the NRA did not return messages from the MDJ seeking further details or reaction to reports of the deputies’ hire.
https://www.mdjonline.com/news/nra-president-retains-off-duty-deputies-to-guard-east-cobb/article_117bc670-ba23-11e9-ae6e-4b82c6481f73.html
