Gee, if only there was some handheld device that could provide security

[wiffleball 4,640]

DALLAS (AP) — After school shootings that left dozens dead in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the resulting outrage put him in such danger that he sought shelter aboard a borrowed 108-foot (32.92-meter) yacht.

During a deposition, the head of the powerful gun-rights group’s acknowledged sailing in the Bahamas with his family as a “security retreat” in the summers following a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut and a 2018 massacre in Florida.

The NRA declared bankruptcy in January, months after New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat, sued seeking the group’s dissolution over claims that top executives illegally diverted tens of millions of dollars for lavish personal trips, no-show contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures.

The allegations include that LaPierre repeatedly sailed in the Bahamas on the yacht of Hollywood producer David McKenzie, whose company has done business with the NRA, but did not mention the trips on financial disclosures. McKenzie is not named in the suit but both it and LaPierre’s deposition include the name of his yacht: Illusions.

In the deposition, LaPierre said he did not pay to use McKenzie’s yacht, which came with a cook, a motor boat and a pair of Sea-Doo personal watercraft. He said he did not think using the vessel violated the NRA’s conflict-of-interest policy because the summer sailing trips were for security.

Shannon Watts, the founder of the gun control group Moms Demand Action, highlighted LaPierre’s testimony on Twitter Monday, mocking his argument that it takes “a good guy with a gun” to stop a mass shooting. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good friend with a yacht?“ she wrote.

 

[tubby_mcgee 686]

12 minutes ago, wiffleball said:

Shannon Watts, the founder of the gun control group Moms Demand Action, highlighted LaPierre’s testimony on Twitter Monday, mocking his argument that it takes “a good guy with a gun” to stop a mass shooting. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good friend with a yacht?“ she wrote.

 

Shannon Watts is dumb.  That makes no sense ...like sarcastically or literally. 

People that are just plain old fashioned dumb often say dumb things. 

I promise that if Shannon Watts had someone rip her to the ground and begin raping her in front of her kids, and tell her that her kids were next and that she was gonna watch, that she would be begging for someone to shoot the thug.  With a gun. 

Shannon Watts is dumb. 

[edjr 5,564]

I am going to go on the record and say people with yachts, don't typically get killed by thugs

[tubby_mcgee 686]

6 minutes ago, edjr said:

I am going to go on the record and say people with yachts, don't typically get killed by thugs

I'm the only one that mentioned thug.

Were you referring to my post?

[edjr 5,564]

5 minutes ago, tubby_mcgee said:

I'm the only one that mentioned thug.

Were you referring to my post?

I stopped at yacht

[tubby_mcgee 686]

32 minutes ago, edjr said:

I stopped at yacht

 

I can count to potato.