Cover of Mad Max (Special Edition)
Is it the final sign of the apocalypse? I ask because this little happening is the sort of unexpected thing that marks apocalyptic changes-
Fox Anchor to NRA’s LaPierre: You’re ‘Ridiculous’
Fox, criticizing the NRA? The beloved of the RNC criticizing another beloved?
With Mark Kelly renewing his call for stricter gun control, LaPierre even took heat from Fox’s Chris Wallace, who blasted LaPierre’s contention that American children face the same dangers as President Obama’s daughters as “ridiculous.” “Tell that to the people in Newtown,” responded the NRA chief. LaPierre also took aim at universal background checks, saying, “it’s a fraud to call it universal. The criminals are never going to comply.” Over at ABC, Paul Krugman chimed in, calling the NRA “an insane organization.” “They have this vision that we’re living in a Mad Max movie and that nothing can be done about it, that America cannot manage unless everybody’s prepared to shoot intruders.”
One expects Krugman to call a spade a spade but not Chris Wallace. Not Fox. Maybe it is the end of the world as we know it. But I feel fine.
Did… did you just make an R.E.M. reference?!
who?
Whew, okay. Everything back to normal.
He must mean that you’re dreaming.
Anyway … let this sink in. Fox “News” said that the NRA’s position is ridiculous.
I mean, that’s pretty wild.
I’ve been pointing out to people that the late Robert Bork, hardly a lefty, held that it was ridiculous to believe that the Second Amendment implied anything about any kind of individual gun ownership. The NRA is out there.
Even Wayne LaPierre used to support background checks. That he’s turned from it shows that he’s got sufficient mental issues that we should worry about his gun ownership.
My kids do not face the same dangers as the President’s daughters. And I’d rather that they not have to go to school in an armed camp just to satisfy a lobby group funded by gun makers.