LaPierre said “political and media elites” are lying to Americans, and that the “political elites” pass laws they haven’t even read while the “media elites” defend them.
In a speech that was both bleak and defiant, National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre called on conservative activists Thursday to fight Washington and “media elites” who want to “strip our rights away.”
“You feel it in your heart,” LaPierre said at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, held just outside Washington, D.C. “You know it in your gut. Something in our country has gone wrong the core values that we believe in, the things we care about most in our lives, are changing.”
One of the most precious rights that we have as Americans, he continued, is the right to raise and protect our families the way we see fit. But that right is under attack.
Now, he said, people come up to him and say, not with anger, but with sadness: “Wayne, I’ve never been worried about this country until now.”
“For the things we care about most, we feel profound loss. Not that we think something is going wrong, but because we already know something has gone,” LaPierre said.
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