National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre said Thursday while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference that he still wants to debate President Barack Obama on gun policy.
“We know a liar when we see one. We also know a political coward when we see one. You know, President Obama, he’s never going to debate me on guns,” LaPierre said. “His knowledge on that issue couldn’t fill a thimble and he knows it. I would clean his clock and he knows it.”
LaPierre had turned down the chance to participate alongside Obama in a CNN town hall discussion on guns in January. Instead, he offered for the President to join him in a “a one-on-one, one-hour debate.”
The White House hasn’t responded to that offer, he said.
“So he’ll keep hiding behind his podium in rigged appearances, like all the other truth-dodging politicians,” LaPierre said, standing at a lectern himself. “Then he’ll lecture us on what’s wrong with our rights, while day by day all over this country, more and more people grow more and more disgusted, enraged and determined to just throw them all out.”
