NRA chief: Boston-area residents were vulnerable without guns

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

NRA chief: Boston-area residents were vulnerable without guns

By Andrea Lorenz
HOUSTON | Sat May 4, 2013 7:37pm EDT

(Reuters) - Heavy-handed gun laws and a culture disapproving of gun ownership put citizens in a vulnerable position during the door-to-door search for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev last month, NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre said on Saturday.

"How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?" LaPierre asked in a speech at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston.

"Residents were imprisoned behind the locked doors of their own home, a terrorist with bombs and guns just outside," LaPierre said, referring to the police search in the Boston suburb of Watertown.

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"Lying in wait right now is a terrorist, a deranged school shooter, a kidnapper, a rapist, a murderer, waiting and planning and plotting in every community across our country, lying in wait right now," LaPierre said.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/04/us-usa-guns-nra-idUSBRE94200K20130504

[gopiscrap]

1. The fucking NRA

has it's head so far up it's ass, it might never be able to pull itself back to sanity!!!

[ileus]

2. Along with all the other areas in America...dumbass

What other obvious words of wisdom do you have for us. ID10T...

[gejohnston]

3. most likely,

there were fewer than he thinks and more than you think.

[CreekDog]

5. With guns in the house, they'd be more likely to die from them

Than at the hands of a terrorist.

[gejohnston]

6. about the same actually

You have a greater chance of being struck by lightening twice and winning the lottery than being killed by a terrorist.
Even with the gun, they would be more likely to die from slipping in the bath tub.
http://guncite.com/gun-control-kellermann-3times.html

But that isn't relevant to the question. The question was how many people thought "I wish I had a gun at the time".

[lastlib]

4. Stoking the FEAR to SELL more GUNZ!!!

MORE GUNZ!!! MORE GUNZ!!! MORE GUNZ!!!

GUNZ GOOD!! Muzzlim Terra-ists BAD!! Muzzlim Kenyan Soshulist Prez-dent BAD!!

FUCK Wayne LaPee-Error!!! And the horse he rode in on!!

[dementianurse]

7. Lots of fear-stoking from both sides of the debate

I've seen people write that they "can't go to a movie theater without fear", even though there are 5928* theaters with 38,794 screens spread out over 3.7 million square miles in the U.S., and exactly one highly public mass shooting (I'm sure someone will dig out an anecdote or two citing others over the past few decades).

Time for everyone to take a deep breath.



*2008 figures

[MisterP]

8. does he mean Bostonians to use the guns against random backpacks, or against the police searching

for a mad bomber?
which drooling fantasy is it, Frenchie? the "Mosquebusters" one or the "Hal Turner" one? did you not label the videocassettes?

[gejohnston]

9. I'm guessing in case

one of these guys broke in to hide from the cops. Just a guess. Call him up and ask him.