Sunday, July 24, 2011
Wayne La Pierre at the United Nations
Typically belligerant: "those working on this treaty have asked us to trust them... but they've proven to be unworthy of that trust."
Typically contentious: "our Bill of Rights, endowed by our Creator, and due to all Human Kind. therefore the NRA will fight with all of its strength."
In homage to his hero, Brad Kozak posted the entire text of the speech. Naturally, except for a couple of sons of "Blue Helmets" the commenters were right there with old Brad in slamming the UN and pretending the exaggerated claims of La Pierre are valid.
But I seem to recall other times when Brad's boss attempted to dispel the fear. Robert posted several times about the fact that American civilian gun owners have nothing to worry about, for example this one entitled, The U.N. Small Arms Treaty is Not A Gun-Grabbing Conspiracy.
My opinion is that Wayne La Pierre is a well-paid showman. He's scamming the membership he claims to serve by pretending threats exist where none do. He did it with Obama's supposed gun banning. He and his organization duped the members out of tens of millions on that one. Now it's the Small Arms Treaty.
What's your opinion? What do you think the gun-rights folks would have said if Helmke had earned more than a million dollars a year as head of the leading gun control organization? Don't you think that would have generated a bit of criticism?
Yet, those same folks lay down for La Pierre's flim-flam game, or like Brad Kozak, they actually support and encourage it.
What's your opinion? Please leave a comment.
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Just more fear-mongering for profit.
ReplyDeleteLa Pierre is a sock puppet who will say what he is paid to say, and truth or fact be damned.
ReplyDeleteBaldr is correct; there's money in them thar scares.
None of this matters. The current Senate will not ratify any such treaty.
ReplyDelete"What do you think the gun-rights folks would have said if Helmke had earned more than a million dollars a year as head of the leading gun control organization? Don't you think that would have generated a bit of criticism?"
I think that would have been great. Waste even more of their limited resources an that ineffectual leader. I was sad to see him go.
But, isn't it that La Pierre earns most of his income from the gun manufacturers he represents as a lobbyist? Isn't that how his income gets so inflated? And doesn't that point to where his loyalties are, certainly not with the dupe gun owners he purports to represent.
ReplyDeleteMikeB: “And doesn't that point to where his loyalties are, certainly not with the dupe gun owners he purports to represent.”
ReplyDeleteAre those interests different? Gun manufacturers want to sell guns. Gun owners want to buy guns from them. Seems like we share common interests. “Oh no, big corporations are making money!” is not a scare tactic that works on me.
OK, TS, but how about unscrupulous decisions made in the interest of the bottom line. Gun manufacturers benefit from the fact that so many guns flow into the criminal world. They benefit from the lax or missing laws that would don't interfere with that. The result is they supply the criminals indirectly - all the guns flowing out of their warehouses are adding to their profits regardless of where they end up.
ReplyDeleteDoes that sound like a mutually healthy arrangement between gun manufacturers and gun buyers?