NRA Head: Clinton’s Gun Policy Shows She Doesn’t Care About Women

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National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre said Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference that Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton was trampling on women’s rights by advocating for gun control.

“All of America’s women, you aren’t free if you aren’t free to defend yourself,” he said. “If President Obama, Hillary Clinton or anyone else denies you that right, they don’t really care about you at all.”

LaPierre argued that gun restrictions put women at risk for violent crime.

“No woman should be left to face evil with empty hands,” he said.

LaPierre, who mistakenly referred to the former secretary of state as “President Clinton” when talking about her earlier in his speech, also promised a fight if Clinton should win the White House.

“Bring it on,” he said. “In November, we’re bringing the fight to you.”

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  1. Avatar for tesla tesla says:

    Women in the United States are 11 times more likely to be murdered than women in other countries. Intimate partners make up the majority of assailants. American Progress, “Women Under the Gun.” http://ampr.gs/1MPkQrp

    Keep talking that trash, WP, keep talking that lying trash.

  2. The evil this man does is beginning to show on his face.

  3. Wow speak of the devil. Just two days ago I think I posted that the NRA was keeping its powder dry. We should really welcome their gasoline on the GOP fire! Yes!! More Crazy please!!!

  4. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    If this is his public face, I do not wish to imagine his Dorian Gray Picture in the attic .

  5. Just another "good guy’ who couldn’t get a date.

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