Wayne LaPierre Quotes
The future of the Second Amendment depends on the free exercise of the First Amendment.
LaPierre, Wayne. "Standing Guard." America's 1st Freedom, National Rifle Association, 2014.
The Nazis were banned from demonstrating in the streets of Skokie, Illinois on the grounds that they would incite violence. However, Goldberger of the ACLU took their case and won their right to spew their hatred before the Supreme Court.
The Fort Collins newspaper had published the names of concealed gun permit holders. Clauber and others felt that this inhibited people who were breaking no laws and just wanted to avail themselves of their 2nd Amendment rights. The Newspaper argued that there was a public safety issue at stake in that people should be aware of which people they may be dealing with in day to day affairs are armed and this they can alter their behavior as not to provoke or deal with these people.
Stopping the FCC from challenging broadcast licenses for programming-related deficiencies:
The first Civil Rights Act {587712} was passed a few months before and has some of the same language as Congress wanted to make the laws very clear. The Southern Rebels who insisted on their right to have guns during Reconstruction, viciously denied that same right to the newly freed slaves. Sickles tried to remedy this, but the KKK and other terrorists intimidated most of the Blacks into not using the right that they had. Later, they would do that with the right to vote. In January, the Commanding General in charge of South Carolina had issued an order protecting the rights of Blacks to have guns {629894}. This law applied that to the entire country. The Southerners have always supported the 2nd Amendment except when Blacks wanted to have arms.
Wayne Robert LaPierre, Jr. is an American gun rights activist serving as the executive vice president (EVP) of the National Rifle Association (NRA) since 1991.
