# Can we get a round of 'Fuck Yous' for Wayne LaPierre? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2021, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499 "2021-04-06T19:37:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/21 "2021-04-07T20:43:50Z")
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**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/22 "2021-04-08T05:38:16Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > This is pretty much it. The only other function of the NRA is to funnel member money to sleazebag grifters like Wayne LaPierre and his ilk. I got tired of the NRA when I realized they were no longer a non-partisan political organization and their constant fear mongering about those damned liberals taking away our guns. As far as protecting the rights of gun owners, they haven’t been the best organization at doing that in the last twenty years. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/23 "2021-04-08T05:54:02Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I hear Hunter Biden’s laptop is really dangerous, as are Jill Biden’s stockings. Do you remember back in the day when the 'Pubbies (on these boards and elsewhere) would be frothing at the mouth because Obama had (allegedly) dissed the military by looking at a Marine funny, or W&H Clinton had kinda maybe been somewhere near a failed real estate deal, and we used to take them seriously - as if these things _actually bothered them_? I do, but only just. Now when I hear the latest Republican hissyfit of the day I just laugh. They cannot, _cannot_ seriously expect anyone, ever again, to believe for one moment that they actually care on any principled basis about minor alleged behavioural failings of US leaders. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/24 "2021-04-08T06:00:45Z")
But on the subject of the OP itself, do I understand correctly that the only reason LaPierre is talking about this subject at all (at a bankruptcy hearing) is because he is trying to justify his time spent on a yacht as being necessary for personal safety, when the accusation (and reality?) is that his time on a luxury yacht was an element of his corrupt conduct? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/25 "2021-04-08T13:37:11Z")
Hopefully in his exile he stocked up on candybeans. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/26 "2021-04-08T13:56:04Z")
BTW I just noticed that in my earlier post I unforgivably omitted the following: “Fuck You, LaPierre!” My apologies. ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/27 "2021-04-08T22:13:14Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > NRA’s LaPierre runs away and hides because he’s afraid of people with guns Hiding on his yacht because he is afraid of guns? Shouldn’t they rescind his NRA membership? What a fucking coward. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/28 "2021-04-08T22:13:44Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > They cannot, _cannot_ seriously expect anyone, ever again, to believe for one moment that they actually care on any principled basis about minor alleged behavioural failings of US leaders. Never underestimate the willful stupidity of people who watch Fox. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2021, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/29 "2021-04-08T22:27:10Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > the only reason LaPierre is talking about this subject at all (at a bankruptcy hearing) is because he is trying to justify his time spent on a yacht as being necessary for personal safety, when the accusation (and reality?) is that his time on a luxury yacht was an element of his corrupt conduct? Basically. It’s part of the suit that NY AG Letitia James filed last year, alleging that LaPierre was using the NRA as his personal piggy bank, in violation of the group’s non-profit status. She says that she has regulatory and tax papers as well as witnesses which will support her claims of self-dealing, retaliatory threats and so on. LaPierre (on his own recognizance, it should be pointed out, he didn’t discuss any of this with the NRA board) set up a shell company in Texas last January, then declared bankruptcy there, using the shell (Sea Girt) as it’s venue toehold. He’s doing that as a means to dip out on the New York suit (he’s openly admitted this and claims he’s doing it to escape a political witchhunt.) This is a hearing in Texas to see if the NRA’s bankruptcy can proceed and/or if it can get LaPierre out of the New York lawsuits. The NY AG is here in arguing in Texas (virtually) that a) the basis of her lawsuit is sound and she has him dead to rights and b) this is the rankest of bad faith venue shopping. [Here’s the Wapo on the subject:](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-bankruptcy-hearing/2021/04/06/c0947c40-96d3-11eb-b28d-bfa7bb5cb2a5_story.html) > The hearing follows [a sweeping lawsuit](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/nra-lapierre-ny-attorney-general/2020/08/06/8e389794-d794-11ea-930e-d88518c57dcc_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_5&itid=lk_inline_manual_15)last August from New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), in which she alleged that LaPierre and other top NRA executives took advantage of the group’s nonprofit status and diverted tens of millions of dollars to pay for their luxury lifestyles. > > … snip … > > Following the shootings in both Parkland and Newtown, “I was under all kinds of threats. I did not feel safe anywhere with myself or my family,” he said. “This was offered as a security retreat where we could be safe and feel safe.” > > … snip … > > Pressed by lawyers, LaPierre said he did not offer to pay for using the yacht and did not disclose it as a potential conflict of interest. He also acknowledged that his security director did not review the boat’s security measures or conduct background checks on the Illusion’s employees. So LaPierre is trying to claim this was a legitimate security need for himself, as an NRA employee, and not a luxury get-away. But he didn’t take any actual security measures and he didn’t pay for it with NRA funds. Meanwhile, as [AGA Monica Connell said in her opening remarks:](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-nra-bankruptcy-hearing-glam-squad-20210405-co4tu2oaqjf7xjlj44heloq46q-story.html) > Assistant Attorney General Monica Connell said in opening remarks that LaPierre’s use of “Illusions” was a clear conflict of interest and violation of rules surrounding the NRA’s nonprofit status. LaPierre did not disclose his free trips aboard the boat, owned by Hollywood producer David McKenzie. Meanwhile, the NRA continues to pay McKenzie $1 million a month for media projects, Connell said. Just for the curious: here’s the yacht in question > **[Illusion (yacht)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusion_(yacht))** > > Illusion is a superyacht built in 2013 at the Dutch Heesen Yachts shipyard. The interior design of Illusion was done by Bannenberg & Rowell Design and the exterior work was done by Omega Architects. > It was launched as the Galactica Star with an original sale price of €65 million. > The yacht was seized in 2017 as part of the US government Kleptocracy Asset Recovery Initiative from former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. It was then sold at auction in 2019 to Burg... ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2021, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/30 "2021-04-09T01:22:27Z")
> [@Merneith](#): > > Following the shootings in both Parkland and Newtown, “I was under all kinds of threats. I did not feel safe anywhere with myself or my family,” he said. Waitaminnit — I thought Newtown (at least) was a hoax and all the “victims” crisis actors. So he thought it necessary to hide from a hoax on a superyacht? What a … pansyass. Oh, and: Fuck you, Wayne LaPierre! ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/31 "2021-04-12T02:09:16Z")
Under threats from gun control activists and peaceniks. A LYING pansyass. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/32 "2021-04-12T03:44:12Z")
They might put him in the comfy chair, and even hit him with the soft pillows. The horror! ---
**Author:** ![mtnmatt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mtnmatt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mtnmatt)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2021, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/33 "2021-04-28T16:05:01Z")
If everything above wasn’t enough to warrant a Fuck You, this New Yorker story - with sickening, long-suppressed video - should do the trick: > **[The Secret Footage of the N.R.A. Chief’s Botched Elephant Hunt](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-secret-footage-of-nra-chief-wayne-lapierres-botched-elephant-hunt)** > > Wayne LaPierre has cultivated his image as an exemplar of American gun culture, but video of his clumsy marksmanship—and details regarding his Rodeo Drive shopping trips—tells another story. He almost literally couldn’t shoot a fish in a barrel. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/34 "2021-04-29T16:00:26Z")
Hoping this new revelation brings more people to the realization that Wayne LaPierre is an absolute piece of garbage human and the NRA as we know it is a garbage organization. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/35 "2021-04-29T16:09:48Z")
> [@mtnmatt](#): > > He almost literally couldn’t shoot a fish in a barrel. - He would have needed to go to this extreme. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/BOz1vinNXZg/hqdefault.jpg "Mythbusters - Shooting Fish in A Barrel") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOz1vinNXZg) ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/36 "2021-04-29T16:16:44Z")
A hearty “fuck you” to his wife, as well. She also murdered an elephant, then cut off a piece of its tail for a souvenir. Fuck you, you miserable twat, for killing one of earth’s most intelligent and endangered species. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/37 "2021-04-29T16:43:11Z")
And these were clearly elephants who were used to humans. BTW, according to Beau, this is how all these “great hunts” go, with the guides doing all the work and the “hunters” having no idea what to do. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/IFEbbEqBgrA/maxresdefault.jpg "Let's talk about Wayne LaPierre's little trip....") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFEbbEqBgrA) ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/38 "2021-04-29T22:11:55Z")
Fucking disgusting. I recently watched the Ken Burn’s Hemingway documentary and wasn’t happy about the safaris/big game hunting and then I see this total stack of shit Wayne LaPierre! I can cut Hemingway some slack since we’ve come a long ways. But, not fuckhead LaPierre and his absolute incompetency with that rifle. I bet those guides (I don’t appreciate the guides either) that initially praised his great hunt went home and also called LaPierre a huge incompetent piece of shit. I despise trophy hunting in all forms. That poor elephant that had to endure that 😢 ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/39 "2021-04-30T01:07:39Z")
Funny how this guy has absolutely no regard for the lives of any other living things - human or animal - but he sure wants all the security in the world to protect his own worthless ass. Fuck him indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499/40 "2021-04-30T03:05:51Z")
Happy to come back for another cup of Fuck You, LaPierre. Elephants are holy. Fuck the people that murder them and fuck the industry around it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-we-get-a-round-of-fuck-yous-for-wayne-lapierre/939499.md?page=3)