LaPierre: A ‘violent rapist deserves to face … a good woman with a gun’

 

Wayne LaPierre was on top of his game when blasting the efforts of some in Congress to implement universal background checks and a federal gun registry.

NRA head Wayne LaPierre offered another fiery critique of Congress’s actions on gun control Friday, suggesting universal background checks and a federal gun registry are only meant to tax guns and confiscate them.

LaPierre got one of his biggest applause lines at the Conservative Political Action Conference, though, when he turned to the matter of self-defense, suggesting that a gun is the best defense against a “violent rapist.”

“The one thing a violent rapist deserves to face is a good woman with a gun,” he said.

Background checks a pretext for gun registration, says LaPierre.

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