After school shootings, NRA exec sought refuge on 108-foot yacht: ‘Thank God I’m safe

[signalmankenneth]

After dozens were killed at two mass school shootings in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the ensuing public outrage put him in so much danger that he had to take shelter — specifically, on a friend’s 108-foot yacht.

“I was basically under presidential threat without presidential security in terms of the number of threats I was getting,” LaPierre said in a deposition filed during the weekend. “And this was the one place that I hope could feel safe, where I remember getting there going, ‘Thank God I’m safe, nobody can get me here.'”

The deposition, which emerged as part of a closely watched bankruptcy hearing for the NRA in Dallas this week, noted that LaPierre had used the vessel for a “security retreat” multiple times between 2013 and 2018.

LaPierre, the longtime head of the gun-rights group, said that deadly shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Newtown, Conn., had left him feeling unsafe anywhere with his family. So in the summers following both massacres, he borrowed the yacht — which comes with a cook and two water scooters — from a Hollywood producer.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/06/nra-wayne-lapierre-yacht-parkland/

 

[ThatOwlWoman]

Poor thing. It must suck to run around drenched in victimhood all day.

 

[Walt]

After dozens were killed at two mass school shootings in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the ensuing public outrage put him in so much danger that he had to take shelter — specifically, on a friend’s 108-foot yacht....LaPierre, the longtime head of the gun-rights group, said that deadly shootings in Parkland, Fla., and Newtown, Conn., had left him feeling unsafe anywhere with his family. So in the summers following both massacres, he borrowed the yacht — which comes with a cook and two water scooters — from a Hollywood producer.

LaPierre has a net worth of $20 million, but is given "gifts" allowing him to live a much higher net worth lifestyle. What did he do for this money?

He has been a lobbyist for his entire career. Almost all his money comes from a supposed charity. In 2014, the NRA gave him $5,110,985. In a typical year, they give him close to a million dollars. He has turned the supposed charity into a for profit institution that profits him and a group of his cronies.

 

[Noking]

Quite the excuse for fleecing the NRA contributors.