National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre on Friday said his organisation would not support any new gun control or safety laws proposed by the Biden administration just days after a gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.
Mr LaPierre, who has served as the NRA’s chief executive since 1991, described the horror that unfolded less than 300 miles from where he stood as “evil” and acknowledged the “gut wrenching, unimaginable pain” caused by the Uvalde shooting, and said “every decent American” is “mourning … the 21 beautiful lives” snuffed out by the shooting, which was perpetrated by an 18-year-old using an AR-15-style rifle he’d bought on his birthday several weeks prior.
