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Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president and the CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), appeared on CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday for an exclusive interview with host John Dickerson. While there, he felt for the Las Vegas victims, defended the Second Amendment and his organization, and called out those in the media (Hollywood in particular) who got rich off of glorifying gun violence and “irresponsible use of firearms.”
LaPierre began his interview by first sharing his condolences with the victims and those effects by the Las Vegas shooting. “Can I say first, this has been a tragic week. I mean, we had NRA members out there in the middle of that tragedy, we had NRA families, we had families wounded out there. It just has been horrible,” he told Dickerson.
“But to the people that are trying to politicize this tragedy, I would say this: There are monsters like this monster out there every day. There are menaces out there every day,” he shifted. “That's why they support this freedom.”
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