NRA s Wayne LaPierre inspires backlash over video showing his horrifying elephant hunt Image via Wikimedia Commons.
For 40 years
Wayne LaPierre has been the executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association, and yet can t seem to shoot straight.
A just-published article at The New Yorker exposes the top gun lobby group s chief as having clumsy marksmanship, as a video of him on safari with his wife (below) reveals. After the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, in 2012, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, told Americans agitating for new gun regulations, The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Less than a year later, LaPierre and his wife, Susan, travelled to Botswana s Okavango Delta, where they hoped to show N.R.A. members that they had the grit to take on a different adversary: African bush elephants, the largest land mammals on Earth. The trip was filmed by a crew from