Wayne LaPierre

[[File:Wayne LaPierre by Gage Skidmore 2 (cropped).jpg|right|thumb|165px|Come here and try to take my gun, you jackbooted government thugs!]]
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{{cquote|The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.|||Wayne LaPierre, press conference after the [[Sandy Hook massacre]]}}
'''Wayne LaPierre''' {{lived|November 8, 1949|}} is a clothes horse<ref>[https://theslot.jezebel.com/some-select-items-from-nra-chief-executive-wayne-lapier-1834723890 Some Select Items from NRA Chief Executive Wayne LaPierre's Favorite Boutique] by Ashley Reese (May 13, 2019; 2:30pm) ''Jezebel''. Original source: ''Wall Street Journal''.</ref> and fop{{efn|Friend of [[Putin]]<ref>[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/trump-russia-nra-connection-maria-butina-alexander-torshin-guns/ The Very Strange Case of Two Russian Gun Lovers, the NRA, and Donald Trump: Here's what we uncovered about an odd pair from Moscow who courted the Trump campaign.] by Denise Clifton & Mark Follman (Mar. 8, 2018 6:00 AM) ''Mother Jones''.</ref>}} who happens to be the chief executive and executive vice president of the [[National Rifle Association]], a [[gun]] industry [[lobbying]] group. He's also a [[conservative]] [[America]]n [[gun nut]] and [[crank]] (with a [[French]] surname which means "the rock", equivalent to "[[Peter]]") who indulges in [[conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] about the [[bullshit|many ways]] in which [[socialist]] [[liberal]] [[Democrat]]s like [[Barack Obama]] are trying to institute [[gun control]] and TAKE AWAY YER 
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His "[[theory|theories]]" about liberals trying to dissolve the [[Second Amendment]] are widely spread among [[libertarian]] circles but usually center on some government policy that doesn't exist or some possible government plan that hasn't been developed yet.

He is also known for coining the phrase "jackbooted government thugs"<ref group=note>As it is used among conservative [[pundit]]s in the United States; use of the word "jackboot" to describe [[fascism]] or [[totalitarianism]] is actually [[British]] in origin.</ref> to describe the [[FBI]] agents working at the [[Timothy McVeigh|Oklahoma City bombing site]] in 1995, a phrase that incited former [[United States President]] [[George H.W. Bush]] to cancel his lifetime membership in an open letter to the ''[[New York Times]]''.<ref>http://www.nytimes.com/1995/05/11/us/letter-of-resignation-sent-by-bush-to-rifle-association.html</ref>

He and his organization are also guilty of breaking federal law (whodathunkit?) by putting together robocalls to Newtown.  Their latest trick was to have some gun owning [[troll]] make the call, asking "do you want take a poll?"  The "poll" is then preceded by a rant by Mr. LaPierre.

His latest gun trick is to get into a circular firing squad with ex-NRA president [[Oliver North]] and the longtime NRA advertising agency, Ackerman McQueen while playing the game of who hid the money.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/04/27/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-claims-hes-being-extorted-by-oliver-north-hes-standing-his-ground/ NRA ousts president Oliver North after alleged extortion scheme against chief executive] by Michael Brice-Saddler (April 27, 2019 at 12:55 PM) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

Despite projecting the image of being an uber-macho marksman gun nut, LaPierre had difficulty killing a wounded and downed elephant at close proximity, a failure so great that it [[Hypocrisy|violated the NRA's own ethics rules]], "I will do my best to acquire those marksmanship and hunting skills, which insure clean, sportsmanlike kills."<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/27/nra-wayne-lapierre-elephant-video/ Video shows NRA head struggling to kill wounded elephant from feet away: ‘I’m not sure where you’re shooting’] by Hannah Knowles et al. (April 27, 2021 at 8:42 p.m. PDT) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

LaPierre resigned as head of the NRA in 2023 amidst a New York State fraud lawsuit against the organization; that will not get him out of legal trouble though since it is one of the four named defendants.<ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/05/nra-wayne-lapierre-resigning NRA chief Wayne LaPierre announces resignation] by Justine McDaniel (January 5, 2024 at 2:37 p.m. EST) ''The Washington Post''.</ref>

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