"I don't know where to start…yeah, it's responsible to own a gun; it’s responsible to protect your family; it's responsible to have a handgun in your house; it's responsible to have a shotgun; it's responsible to have a hunting rifle, but Wayne LaPierre is suggesting if you are against Americans being able to own assault weapons with 30-round, high-capacity magazines ... and he said, Hispanic drug gangs are coming to America. And those terrible people in Brooklyn. Don't go out after dark. I mean, this is so laced with racial overtones ... the Republican Party, if they were smart, their leaders today would condemn it, but they're not smart; they're scared, and if they keep running scared they're going to lose more votes, they're going to get hammered in future elections if they allow this clown to continue to lead them around by their nose. They're shameful; they need to be leaders."
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Wayne LaPierre
Wayne Robert LaPierre, Jr. (born November 8, 1949) is an American gun rights lobbyist who was the CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), a position he held between 1991 and 2024.
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