UNITED STATES National Rifle Association (NRA) chief Wayne LaPierre has complained that public anger following mass shootings forces him to seek refuge on a borrowed luxury yacht in the Bahamas.
Mr LaPierre took cruises following the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut, when 26 people, including 20 children between six and seven years old, were killed, and the Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida in 2018, which took 17 lives.
These were “security retreats” to protect him from threats over the gun lobby’s opposition to gun controls, which spike after every mass killing, he said. Only when at sea could he feel: “Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here,” he explained.
NRA leader sheltered on borrowed yacht after mass shootings
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After school shootings that left dozens dead in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the resulting outrage put him in such danger that he sought shelter aboard a borrowed 108-foot yacht.
During a deposition, the head of the powerful gun-rights group acknowledged sailing in the Bahamas with his family as a security retreat in the summers following a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut and a 2018 massacre in Florida. I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting, LaPierre said, according to a transcript of the deposition filed in court over the weekend. And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, Thank God I m safe, nobody can get me here.