please welcome our executive vice president wayne lapierre. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. when wayne lapierre spoke in the aftermath of the sandy hook shooting, his comments were very much aimed at the more extremist gun rights community that is the base of support for the nra. there s an old axiom in politic that is a small but a highly motivated minority can often win the day over a large but fairly apathetic majority and that s pretty much the tale of the nra. by almost every measure we are les free today than we were a decade ago. in ways our fore fathers could never have conjured in their
i thought we can fix this without interfering with hunting and self-protection. we have taken this important part of the life of millions of americans and turned it into an instrument of maintaining madness. public support for an assault weapon ban is overwhelming as much as 70% in some polls. the trick is traps nslating tha into votes on the house floor. la pea ierre was elected to e over as the highest paid executive and try to defeat any efforts to pass gun reform. this is a campaign for eliminating the second amendment entire entirely, unless we fight it, that s america s future and it starts with a simple step like a simple gun ban that too many are too cowardly to fight. la pierre started talking
was extremely disheartening. nra, stop killing our children. it is the nra and assault weapons killing our children. essentially blamed the victims, that the teachers themselves of this elementary school should have been better prepared. and the vision that lapierre put out was one that s consistent with everything i knew about the modern nra but they had never before said it so clearly and plainly out loud because they were afraid it would be too unpopular. we need to have every school in america deploy a protection program proven to work and by that i mean armed security. after the service, we did our first interviews with media. one of the first questions was,
it is effective propaganda, a way to try to close down debate, any question, any criticism by asserting pay tri nottism, american identity and portraying themselves and supporters as an ever persecuted victim group that has to fight against being besieged by people to destroy america. who is if perversely emboldened in the position every time of a massacre baze for every parent they hear like you saying i don t want this to happen to anybody else they say me either. that s why we need more guns and can t take them from the good guns. you have to take them from the bad guys. what do you say to that notion? there s a whole host of executives at gun lobbies including wayne lapierre who have become millionaires off
about a slippery slope. that even the most seemingly benign form of give up control would e ventually lead toward greater gun control and ultimately disarmament. the assault weapons ban of 1994 is the indicator that oh, if we don t stand up and really assert ourselves, if we don t really do something about this, we re going to potentially lose everything. wayne la pierre began putting incredibly insending communications to nra members. mr. la pierre talks about this administration they ll stop at nothing, even murder federal agents wearingabiding citizens. the nra was too much for people and then in the gop including ronald reagan. i support the brady bill and