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NRA blames media, music and more for culture of violence
[NBC Politics.NBC News] National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre blamed Hollywood, video games music, the courts and more on Friday for creating a culture of violence in the United States.Everybody's pretty much forgotten the pair of dorks that showed up at Columbine dressed like they were in The Matrix a few years ago. That was back in prehistory, of course. The people they killed are fossilized by now. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," he said at a Washington press event, adding, "With all the money in the federal budget can't we afford to put a police officer in every single school?" I'm not sure where the solution is, but fifty years ago when I was in school we didn't need armed guards. But that was a more innocent age... Oh. Wait. Our parents fought the Second World War. What've we done different since they were around? LaPierre made his lengthy statement to the press one week after the shooting that killed 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn. Protesters twice interrupted LaPierre, who will appear this Sunday exclusively on NBC's "Meet the Press," holding signs reading "NRA KILLING OUR KIDS," and screaming that the gun rights group has "blood on its hands." The deaths have nothing to do with kids that are reared playing video games where they're walking around behind guns and potting everything that moves. They have nothing to do with movies in which thousands of rounds are expended, dozens of explosion destroy everything in sight, and there are no observable consequences. It has nothing to do with music -- with an entire culture -- that glorifies cold-bloodedness. "Good" kids aren't cool. Better to pretend you're a reptile. It's the NRA that's killing little kids by teaching people how to handle weapons without blasting the people around them, and of gun shows, which are the most gang banger free areas in the nation. He said that elected officials had no authority to deny Americans the right and the ability to protect themselves and their families from harm. And they really can't stand that fact. And he noted that there are millions of active and retired police officers, military veterans, and private security guards -- "an extraordinary corps of patriotic, trained, qualified citizens" -- who should devise a protection plan for every school. Even though they shouldn't have to. Charles Cora is chuckling in his unmarked grave. "I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," he said. Posted by: Fred 2012-12-22 |
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