XPost: uk.politics.misc, uk.politics.guns   
   From: AlleyCatDavis@ymail.com   
      
   (Wayne no longer stands for background checks and psych exams   
   to get a gun permit, probably because of what they would find   
   in his closet.   He's batshit crazy.)   
      
      
   Based on the hysterical hyperbole spilling out the mouth of   
   National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre like too much   
   verbal diarrhea, one would assume the average American and   
   potential gun owner is a gutless coward who needs a firearm to   
   shoot anything in sight.   
      
   LaPierre, long an embarrassment to anyone with an IQ over that   
   of an average vegetable, is edging more and more into the realm   
   of uncontrollable madman, a raving lunatic who seems to want   
   everyone in schools armed, even elementary school kids, and who   
   describes a frightened America filled with citizens cowering in   
   fear in their homes waiting to shoot anyone who walks in the   
   door.   
      
   OK, LaPierre hasn’t advocated arming elementary kids.  Not yet,   
   but based on some of his senseless ramblings, such an idea may   
   be in the back of his head.   
      
   At the annual gathering of gun fanciers who genuflect to the   
   NRA’s propaganda, LaPierre claimed an armed America could have   
   prevented the bombings at the Boston marathon and talked about   
   the need to arm even granny to keep her safe in her home.   
      
   Which raises an interesting — and disturbing — question.  Is   
   the target audience of LaPierre and his inate ramblings a   
   citizen who really needs self protection or is it a collection   
   of paranoid cowards who need guns to establish some vague   
   concept of manhood (and womanhood since NRA these days is   
   targeting women)?   
      
   I’ve known LaPierre for more than 30 years and he has always   
   been a hysterical, paranoid egomaniac who plays well to the   
   insane fears of the average gun nut. In his view, America is   
   best served by a population of gun toting masses walking down   
   the street with firearms strapped to their sides as a deterrent   
   to what he sees as a teeming sea of robbers, looters and street   
   thugs.   
      
   Arming the masses, the told the NRA convention in Houston,   
   could have prevented the bombings in Boston.  How?  He doesn’t   
   say, but knowing Wayne, he probably sees deterrence as allowing   
   anyone to shoot randomly at anyone toting a backpack on a   
   public street.   
      
   While this kind of hysteria ignores common sense and the   
   dangers of too many guns in the hands of too many nut cases, it   
   plays well with the hysterical average member of the National   
   Rifle Association.   
      
   He suggested most Bostonians withed they had carried a gun at   
   the Boston Marathon last month.   
      
   And done what?  Fired at anything that moved?  Most Bostonians   
   want nothing to do with guns.   
      
   He talked about “frightened” people living in fear in their   
   homes.  Really?  Where? Who?   
      
   Such inanity does nothing to bring reason to the needed debate   
   over the proliferation of guns in our society and the increase   
   of violence that leaves too many people dead or wounded.   
      
   After watching LaPierre’s latest tirade at this past weekend’s   
   NRA gathering, I now understand why the association is fighting   
   so hard to prevent expansion of background checks and increased   
   looks at the mental history of those who purchase guns.   
      
   Such a law would prevent crazy loons like Wayne LaPierre or a   
   lot of the other lunatics who run the NRA from ever legally   
   obtaining or owning firearms.   
      
   And that alone is the best argument for expanding background   
   checks.   
      
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