transcript of Wayne LaPierre in a not too distant alternate universe:
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a suicide bomb vest is a good guy with a suicide bomb vest.
Would you rather have your 911 call bring a good guy with a suicide bomb vest from a mile away or from a minute away?
Now, I can imagine the headlines, the shocking headlines you’ll print tomorrow. “More suicide bomb vests,” you’ll claim, “are the NRA’s answer to everything.” Your implication will be that suicide bomb vests are evil and have no place in society, much less in our schools.
But since when did “suicide bomb vest” automatically become a bad phrase? A suicide bomb vest in the hands of a Secret Service agent protecting our president isn’t a bad phrase. A suicide bomb vest in the hands of a soldier protecting the United States of America isn’t a bad phrase. And when you hear your glass breaking at three a.m. and you call 911, you won’t be able to pray hard enough for a suicide bomb vest in the hands of a good guy to get there fast enough to protect you.
So, why is the idea of a suicide bomb vest good when it’s used to protect the president of our country or our police, but bad when it’s used to protect our children in our schools? They’re our kids. They’re our responsibility. And it’s not just our duty to protect them, it’s our right to protect them.
I’m aware the analogy isn’t perfect, but when you see the predictable responses to Paris from people like Newt Gingrich, pfft, Instruments of death, close enough. Some of these dopes think the 2nd Amendment gives them a right to mutated Anthrax for duck hunting.