Say what you like about Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association. He knows his audience.
A week after the tragic mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, LaPierre took the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington to defend America’s right to bear arms.
The speech was also an opportunity for the audience to play NRA “hate bingo”, as LaPierre ticked off an exhaustive – and exhausting – list of the association’s bogeymen and women: Barack Obama, the media, Hollywood, “European-style socialists”, George Soros, Mexicans, China, Black Lives Matter and NFL players who refuse to stand for the national anthem.
Having thoroughly triggered his audience, he went on to mention God, family, the flag, capitalism and all those other things his enemies – supposedly – despise.
If you want to play hate bingo, see how many key words you can find in the speech. And here’s a selection of the most memorable quotes.
Key quotes from the speech
Their laws don’t stop illegal criminals from crossing our borders every single day.
Their laws don’t stop the scourge of gang violence and drug crime that savages Baltimore, Chicago and every major American community.
Their laws haven’t stopped the plague of opioids and Chinese fentanyl from Mexico that floods American streets.
Racist, misogynist, sexist, xenophobe and more – these are the weapons and vitriol these character assassins scream to permanently hang on their targets and create a growing segment of victims.
From the occupied movement to Black Lives Matter to Antifa, they agitate the offended, promote uncivil discourse.
Backed by the social engineering and the billions of people like George Soros and Michael Bloomberg.
During the Obama decade ‘a tidal wave of new European-style socialists’ have seized control of the Democratic party.
On college campuses the Communist Manifesto is one of the most frequently assigned texts.
The United States constitution is ignored, United States history is perverted and the second amendment freedom is despised.
It should not be easier for a madman to shoot up a school than a bank or a jewelry store of some Hollywood gala.
Here are the results ...
It’s a full house!