Patrick Brennan:
NRA executive vice president and CEO Wayne LaPierre told Meet the Press this morning the Navy Yard shooting this week was so deadly because of lack of security at the installation. Asked by David Gregory whether he thought, as the NRA has claimed in the past, that simply more security was needed at the site of the mass shooting, LaPierre said the answer was obvious: “The whole country, David, knows the problem was there weren’t enough good guys with guns. When the good guys got there, it stopped.”
“How can anybody look at what happened this week and say there was enough security there?” LaPierre said. “I mean, there was one guy, [from] a private-security firm . . . there were six guys guarding the gates. The Capital Hill SWAT team was told to stand down.”
LaPierre is a shameless shill for the gun manufacturers who doesn’t give a shit about average Americans being gunned down.
NBC Host Confronts LaPierre’s Call for More ‘Good Guys With Guns’: ‘Where Does it Stop?’
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/nbc-host-confronts-lapierres-call-more-good-
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What I love–and continue to hear no push-back about from media types–is the criticism from the right that gun violence is due to our “broken mental system” (sic). Who destroyed the mental health care system in this country?
Ronald Reagan.
End of debate.
And who’s trying to keep the healthsystem in this country broken? THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. Efficiently completing Reagan’s ongoing attempt to keep the poor and the middle class under the foot of the plutocracy and corporations.
And that’s the NRA scam in one soundbite, conflate efforts to stop the slaughter ‘down the street’ with an imaginary effort to put some Kansas hunter ‘under the thumb’ of the evil guvmint. And the low-IQ crowd buys it every time.