In a speech billed as his official response to President Obama’s State of the Union address, National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre on Thursday accused the President of only pretending to care about school safety in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., mass shooting in December.“That charade ended at the State of the Union, when the President himself exposed their fraudulent intentions,” LaPierre, speaking about gun control advocates, told a receptive crowd. “They only care about their decades long, decades old gun control agenda. Ban every gun they can. Tax every gun sold. And register every gun owner.”
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