Wayne LaPierre
Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 6:58 pm
I have been working on a long-ass essay on guns and gun control and the American Experiment and in the past week, something has been bugging me. Basically, I don't understand how the fuck Wayne is still running the NRA. When I don't understand something that obvious, it gets me interested.
I've seen this man speak three times now - he is neither articulate nor charismatic. One of the times I watched him speak was downright uncomfortable and I was not the only person in the audience who felt that way. But...after that 2012 press conference...how was he not exiled? My working conclusion is two parallel bets: either Wayne has some kind of leverage that is esoteric and related to the Washington DC political blackmail establishment, or the NRA has no intentions of lasting another decade because they know there is a coming demographic shift that will render them powerless, or at least broken.
Contributions welcome, but please refrain from opinion pieces detailing what a turd-weasel this thick motherfucker is. We know.
First up, Frontline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/artic ... -lapierre/
I've seen this man speak three times now - he is neither articulate nor charismatic. One of the times I watched him speak was downright uncomfortable and I was not the only person in the audience who felt that way. But...after that 2012 press conference...how was he not exiled? My working conclusion is two parallel bets: either Wayne has some kind of leverage that is esoteric and related to the Washington DC political blackmail establishment, or the NRA has no intentions of lasting another decade because they know there is a coming demographic shift that will render them powerless, or at least broken.
Contributions welcome, but please refrain from opinion pieces detailing what a turd-weasel this thick motherfucker is. We know.
First up, Frontline:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/artic ... -lapierre/
LaPierre wasn’t always a gun enthusiast.
In fact, when he first joined the NRA in 1978, he was more comfortable on K Street than in a duck blind.
“The safest place you could be with Wayne and a gun back then was in a different state, because he really did not know anything about guns,” former NRA spokesman John Aquilino tells FRONTLINE. “Politics, yes; guns, no.”