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🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:21.5 | We can ensure anonymity. |
0:29.9 | Too many in the national media, their corporate owners and their stockholders act as silent |
0:37.1 | enablers if not complicit co-conspirators. |
0:45.6 | This is Wayne LaPierre speaking at a press conference one week after the Sandy Hook school |
0:51.6 | shooting in Newtown, Connecticut in December of 2012. |
0:58.1 | We need to have every single school in America immediately deploy a protection program, |
1:03.7 | prove and award, and by that I mean armed security. |
1:10.8 | Shortly after his speech, Wayne and Susan LaPierre hopped on a private jet to the Bahamas |
1:17.4 | on the NRA dime. |
1:19.8 | The trip cost about $70,000. |
1:24.2 | As they enjoyed the pink sand beaches on the island of El Luthorah, back home, Wayne |
1:29.6 | was receiving heat for his remarks. |
1:33.2 | So the NRA doubled down. |
1:36.7 | They released a commercial which asked the following questions, are the president's |
1:41.9 | kids more important than yours? |
1:45.1 | Then why is he skeptical about putting armed security in our schools when his kids are |
1:50.2 | protected by armed guards at their school? |
1:54.8 | It spurred widespread condemnation and sent a shock wave through Washington and the national |
2:00.7 | media. |
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