The National Rifle Association’s (NRA) bankruptcy is now in court, and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre has made a rather mind-boggling admission:
Embattled National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre feared for his safety after mass shootings in recent years, forcing him to take refuge aboard a friend’s luxury yacht, the gun rights advocate testified.
LaPierre made the admission in a deposition connected to the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Dallas.
“They simply let me use it as a security retreat because they knew the threat that I was under. And I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre said.
“And all of us were struggling with how to deal with that type situation with a private citizen with the amount of threat that we were having. 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.’ And that’s how it happened. That’s why I used it.” [NBC News]
And just how bad was it?
“I actually thought that given the security threat that I was under and the fact that NRA was — was at almost a loss as to how to protect somebody with the amount of threat that I was having, that — that my work and the threat that came with it, this was — was a place that I could go and be safe, and it was related to that that I — that I — that I did it,” he said.
DEFCON level “incoherent,” evidently. Just like being under a Presidential threat makes any real sense at all.
Look, what I want to know is Who’s doing the threatening? Is this a bunch of big, bad liberals? Or are the Russians angry that the American populace is heavily armed and Putin can’t risk an invasion?
Or is another member of the NRA board looking to move up in the organization?
LaPierre can’t stand the thought of actually living in the society that he’s helped to create, and that’s all kinds of weird, but it makes sense, given the character of the conservative movement. Absolutists, short-term thinkers who seem to put profit over people.
Or a peaceful, sane society.
I’m left to wonder if that’s LaPierre in a nutshell, or if was taking bribes all along and didn’t consider that his advocacy would lead to society of which he wants no part.
Long term cognitive dissonance.
