12.21.12
The Monster from WhiteManistan shows up
Worst roll-out of position, ever.
UPDATED
Right on schedule, Wyane LaPierre of the National Rifle Association showed up on national television to prove he’s every bit the boogeyman one expected.
The only recommendations were to — first — stop making demons of assault gun fetishists and the NRA, and then to use the NRA to train paramilitary defense forces for all schools. Using a task force led by ex-right wing GOP Senator Asa Hutchinson who was last seen trying to get Bill Clinton impeached for having his dick sucked by someone not his wife.
Although LaPierre tried to sound sorrowful, the “put police officers” in every school theme coupled with his introductory tone of “we’re being victimized” made it into a defensive rant.
Some excerpts from transcription:
“There exists in this country a callous and corrupt industry that sells violence against its own people … video games.”
“How come my research staff can find Kindergarten Killer [an online game] but all of your [media research staff] can’t?
“Add another hurricane, a terrorist attack, add another natural disaster
[and the nation will descend into a violent nightmare, or something to
that effect]…“One thousand music videos portray life as a joke … and they all have the nerve to call it entertainment.
“In a race to the bottom video conglomerates compete … to violate every standard of civilized society.”
[At this point a little old lady, carrying a banner, got in front of LaPierre and started shouting, “The NRA has blood on it hands — ban
assault weapons now!” She was taken off but not before getting it in
a few times.]
“It is now time for us to assume responsibility for our schools … the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.”[LaPierre then got querulous about what he knows the reaction to putting more guns in schools will be.]“I can imagine the shocking headlines you’ll be printing tomorrow…”
Blaming video games and entertainment has been in rehearsal all week. The only problem with the argument is that the country exports the same video games and entertainments to the rest of the developed world where they are met with great consumer relish. But those civilized countries are not ridden with massacres perpetrated by semi-automatic weapons.
And why is that? Perhaps because everyone can’t go to Dick’s or Walmart for the world’s best selection of consumer-tailored assault guns.
As for relying on the National Rifle Association to train the country in the defense of its schools, I rely on Who Is the NRA again to edify:
In the increasingly distant past, the National Rifle Association (NRA) largely advocated for policies related to hunting and marksmanship, but today its leaders are defined by unsavory conduct and the advancement of extreme, anti-government ideology. While the NRA innocuously describes itself as the “nation’s oldest civil rights organization,??? this portrayal serves only as a smokescreen to mask the fact that the organization is a rogues gallery of the most odious voices in the contemporary Conservative Movement.
One only has to look to the NRA’s leadership to discover that the organization is operated by a group of individuals who promote racism, misogyny, homophobia, anti-immigrant animus, religious bigotry, anti-environmentalism, and insurrectionism … Moreover, while superficially bipartisan, the NRA is closely aligned with the most extreme elements in the Republican Party and has brought a number of the GOP’s most influential operatives into positions of power within the organization. The GOP and NRA are now locked in a symbiotic relationship.
While not a small force, the NRA is in the minority now. Get the pitchforks.
Updating: Had enough of the NRA and the lunatic white gun right? Just as LaPierre was speaking, another predatory multiple shooting. Here. And here.
More on the NRA leadership’s warped thinking in 2012, from earlier in the week.
Leave it to a feckless Democratic congressman, this one from West Virginia, to show his yellow streak. Afraid of the NRA? Definitely, in W. Virginia, where a jailbird won ten counties over the president in the 2102 primary.
From the wire:
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) has introduced one of Congress’ first pieces of legislation related to the tragedy in Newtown, Conn.: a bill to study the impact of violent video games on children.
“This week, we are all focused on protecting our children. At times like this, we need to take a comprehensive look at all the ways we can keep our kids safe. I have long expressed concern about the impact of the violent content our kids see and interact with every day,” said Rockefeller, who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Rockefeller’s bill would direct the National Academy of Sciences to lead the investigation on video games’ impact and submit a report on its findings within 18 months.
Reid should have Rockefeller ex-communicated for insulting the intelligence, wasting tax payer money and pissing off scientists. Who won’t want to do this because the already know this is a non-starter requested only for the sake of diversionary theater.
Leading NRA board member and public disgrace Ted Nugent in a snap from his Discovery channel show, just canceled, because even they are afraid of him now.