Appeasing the Trigger Gods

Appeasing the Trigger Gods
In an interview at N. R.A.
headquarters — which proudly displayed a model of the pistol used to assassinate Lincoln — LaPierre explained
that AK semiautomatics were just uglier hunting guns and that he knew how to hunker down during periods of “hysteria” after shootings.
Trump wrote in his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve,”
that he was in favor of a ban on assault weapons and “a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun.” But then the N. R.A.
spent more than $30 million to get him elected.
The Orlando shooting also provided confirmation that the emotionally stunted Trump would not be a parental healer for the country, when he tweeted congratulations to himself
for predicting the shooter would have links to terrorism, rather than offering comforting words to the grieving families and friends, and to shaken Americans.
It was too hard-line even for the N. R.A.
“I don’t think you should have firearms where people are drinking,” N. R.A.
chief Wayne LaPierre demurred.
After 49 people were killed in a shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June 2016, he suggested
that it would have been “a beautiful, beautiful sight” if more people in the club had been armed and went “boom” at the “maniac” shooting at them.