NRA vs. IANSA
Wayne LaPierre, NRA Executive Vice President debated Rebecca Peters, head of the International Action Network on Small Arms recently on a pay-per-view event (with the First Ammendment so trampled on in this country, that was the only way to air the debate). Certainly the American Rifleman I have on my lap gives a one-sided account of the event, but it does have some pretty amazing quotes. I think I would like to see this debate sometime. Preferably not on Pay-Per-View.
An excerpt:
Though [LaPierre] made this point often, perhaps he said it best in this itteration:
“So what you have are good and bad confronting each other all over the world … the good people want to be protected and they have a right to own a firearm. And I believe every citizen of the world had that basic human right.”
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Only once did Peters acknowlege LaPierre’s theme about human qualities of good and evil, making an incredible remark, “There is not a clear distinction between the good guys and the bad guys in the world. And – that only happens in the movies.”
Wow. Yeah, Hilter wasn’t distinguishable from Churchill. Bush wasn’t distinguishable from Sadaam. A rapist isn’t distinguishable from his victim. It’s all so unclear. Please.