Wayne LaPierre (NRA) TRASHES Obama State Of The Union Speech. 2-14-13

lapierre obama state union gun | Wayne LaPierre delivered his organization's response to President Obama's fourth State of the Union address. Speaking from the 37th Annual Convention and Sport Show of the National Wild Turkey Federation in Nashville, Tenn., the outspoken gun advocate admonished the president's calls for a ban on "assault weapons" and on high-capacity ammunition clips, and accused him of engaging in widespread "deception."

"In that speech, the president displayed a level of public deception that simply cannot be ignored," LaPierre began. He explained that the first presidential presser following December's Newtown massacre contained a pledge to make schools safer, and that despite this promise, the White House and the media scoffed at the NRA's proposal for armed guards in schools.

The NRA chief then suggested that, during his Tuesday address, the president has betrayed his promise to put student safety above all else. "This was the address in which the president laid out his most ambitious agenda," LaPierre said, but, "In an hour-long speech, nowhere were the words 'school safety' to be found."

"Just think about that: less than two months after we had to look at our schools, the president made not one mention in his entire speech of the need to improve security for our school children," LaPierre continued. "Nothing he proposed has anything to do with protecting one child in any school in this country."

LaPierre then reminded the audience that a year ago, before Obama's re-election, he warned that a second term for the Democratic president would result in "the most aggressive campaign in history to destroy our Second Amendment rights."

He continued on to say that the president's "charade" of proposing stricter gun control measures under the mask of protecting schoolchildren is now "over." At the State of the Union, LaPierre said, the president exposed his own "fraudulent intentions."

On the president's background check proposals, LaPierre made the case that it would only affect law-abiding gun owners while the criminals will manage to slip through the cracks.

"None of it, from universal background checks to universal gun bans, does anything to keep children safer in our schools," he said. "And the president knows it. He didn't even mention it in his speech."

"We will stand and fight," LaPierre said of his organization's intention to not back from combating any gun control efforts, eliciting applause from the crowd.

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[Gunalizer]

That's a laugh. Any informed person can tell you that Dianne Feinstein's S.150 is one of the biggest gun grabs in American history. When a president says he wants to ban so called "assault weapons" he means a whole class of firearms with detachable magazines. Would you quit insulting people's intelligence already? Or come out from under your rock. One of the two.

[bansheekiller]

The only thing there is to say, is that is states in the Constitution, the supreme law of the land of the United States of America, SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.

[NYDeb Bach]

We can certainly make guns part of the discussion, but guns don't do discussions that well. You may not have noticed, but they are a hunk of metal that can't speak or have an opinion, or walk into a school or shoot by themselves.

People who think like you are not living in reality. Time to think.

[TheGreatMoonFrog]

We have a national gun regeistry in Canada. Know what we don't have? School shootings.

[zoomustard]

You're right Wayne, criminals will steal their guns. Or, like in Chicago, buy them out of the trunk of a car from someone who gets them just over the state line in Indiana at a gun show where laws are such a joke, you don't even have to go into the building. People will sell you what thay have in the back seat under a blanket.

[187Kdogg]

Lets storm the white house!

[darryl roark]

own

[darryl roark]

i wonder if he believes his our B.S.

[aerhearts]

Hammers are statistically used in many more murders than the so called assault rifles. So we should ban 'assault hammers'?

Why are they trying to limit and hamstring law abiding citizens from protecting themselves because of the actions of criminals and crazy people who won't obey the laws anyway? We need to stop this dangerous campaign against peaceful law abiding citizens! The problem is a Mental Health issue and that's where legislation and program funding needs to be directed.

[wordster100]

At least I can comment here. The NRA has banned me from commenting on their videos. The NRA not wanting to be challenged?!?!?!? There's a shocker. The NRA is becoming more cultish under LaPierre. The NRA that my Dad and Grandada belonged to is long gone.

[wordster100]

You make valid points, but I am sure that you would agree that guns, the tools, have to at least be part of the discussion. The White House has included comprehensive ideas including care for the mentally ill. Still, even the most ardent gun supporter would have to admit that guns have to at least be part of the discussion. LaPierre thinks otherwise which is beyond inexcusable.