Wayne LaPierre

Whose side is the NRA on?

2013-05-06 09:38:00

Terrorism, whether practiced in the U.S. or overseas, can be defined as a deliberate act of violence to instill fear in a target audience. We fight terrorism when we stay calm but resolute; we abet terrorists when our response is to panic or try to foment...

In Senate gun control vote, tyranny of the minority

2013-04-18 08:56:00

"We think it's reasonable to provide mandatory instant criminal background checks for every sale at every gun show. No loopholes anywhere for anyone." — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre, in testimony before the...

Teachers packing heat

2013-04-03 09:38:00

It is easy to dismiss the report released Tuesday by the National Rifle Association-financed school safety task force as nothing but an effort to change the topic from the broader issue of gun violence or especially gun control (even the watered-down...

Reducing gun violence requires limits on gun sales as well as help for the mentally ill

2013-03-13 06:00:00

Your recent article about the difficulty college students have at campus mental health centers should be mailed to Wayne LaPierre, head of the National Rifle Association ("Students struggle for mental health services," March 8). Mr. LaPierre contends...

On eve of Biden gun report, NRA digs in

2013-01-14 03:00:00

When Vice President Joe Biden invited the National Rifle Association to the White House the other day to join in the Obama administration's post-Newtown talks on ways to counter gun violence, it was like letting the fox into the chicken coop. The NRA...

Freedom to live in fear

2013-01-06 04:00:00

"Everybody got a pistol. This must really please the NRA" -- from "Gun" by Gil Scott-Heron So maybe the NRA is about to get its wish. Here we are, a little over three weeks after the massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., a little over...

Why annihilate the GOP?

2013-02-01 00:00:00

Still reeling from the Republican defeat in the 2012 presidential election, House Speaker John Boehner warned in a Ripon Society speech the other day that the re-elected Obama administration is now out to kill off their party. The embattled speaker...

We deserve a vote

2013-02-18 03:00:00

Much of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address this week was a fairly ho-hum affair, with the usual laundry list of programs and goals (most so familiar that it could have been a recycled campaign speech from 2012, or maybe 2008) and the...

Baltimore Co. chief joins fight in Congress for gun control

2013-01-30 16:11:00

Speaking at an emotional hearing on federal gun control proposals, Baltimore County Police Chief James W. Johnson urged lawmakers Wednesday to close loopholes and ban assault weapon sales or risk more tragedies like the recent elementary school shooting...

The cold-hearted dictators of the NRA

2013-01-04 12:45:00

I read Rachel Marsden's commentary ("In NRA-land, we are still crack shots and cold killers," Jan. 1) with interest. I wholeheartedly agree with Ms. Marsden and offer the following: Wayne LaPierre and the National Rifle Association's solution to have...

Piers Morgan, David Gregory and guns - We're pathetic

2012-12-27 07:22:00

Remember all the big, high-sounding media talk right after the massacre at Sandy Hook about how maybe now we will have a "national dialogue" about guns? Remember how many members of the media vowed to put aside their own little, selfish, partisan...

LaPierre and Reimer both miss the point

2013-01-01 05:00:00

Not everyone views National Rifle Association Vice President Wayne LaPierre as sympathetically as does letter writer Steve Peters ("NRA's LaPierre makes a compelling case," Dec. 27). Following the Newtown, Conn., massacre, Mr. LaPierre first recommended...

Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was seriously injured in the mass shooting that killed six people in Tucson, Ariz.

2013-02-20 15:20:00

Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, speaks during a press conference in Washington Friday. NRA, the powerful U.S.

2012-12-23 00:00:00