A fiery LaPierre accused anti-gun elitists of demonizing gun rights activists and trying to tell everyone else what’s really best for America, including how people should defend themselves.
National Rifle Association (NRA) CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland, on March 15, 2013.
Welcomed to the stage with a lengthy period of applause, National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre took the stage at CPAC Friday and heralded the Second Amendment as the means through which Americans will remain free and independent.
“As you can imagine, I don’t get invited to many parties in this town,” LaPierre began. “But that’s OK…I didn’t come here to be popular. I came here to stand for what I believe is true.”
He rallied the supportive crowd, saying the NRA’s nearly 5 million members and America’s nearly 100 million gun owners will not back down in the fight over gun control. “I promise you that,” LaPierre said.
The Second Amendment, he explained, does not include meaningless “words on parchment.” Nor is it some “frivolous suggestion from our Founding Fathers to be interpreted by whim.”
“Our Founding Fathers knew that without the Second Amendment and that freedom, all of our freedoms could be in jeopardy… If you aren’t free to protect yourself when government puts its thumb on that freedom, then you aren’t free at all,” he proclaimed.
A fiery LaPierre accused anti-gun elitists of demonizing gun rights activists and trying to tell everyone else what’s really best for America, including how people should defend themselves.
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