Nice article by Lupica today. He made it a point to mention that most responsible gun owners aren't affiliated with the NRA, which was nice. I copied and pasted the article from the Daily News. But you should really click the link at the bottom to see the pictures of these little kids with guns at that rally yesterday if you want to get the full effect. It's really kinda disturbing.

Lupica: Sarah Palin's appearance at the National Rifle Association convention is perfect for phony 'patriots'

Palin, who showed up with a T-shirt that read 'Women Hunt,' certainly appealed to the mean, dumb, angry crowd she found in Houston.

Mike Lupica, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sarah Palin showed up at the NRA convention the other day, which was merely perfect. She belonged there as much as anybody in the hall just because from the start, from the time John McCain picked her out of the chorus, Palin has most appealed to mean, dumb, angry crowds exactly like the one she found in Houston.

Palin should have worn a prom dress, but on this occasion wore a T-shirt that read “Women Hunt.” In her case, that means hunting for attention.

Or relevance.

This was the day before Wayne LaPierre, the mouth breather who is the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, got up and gave a speech of his own, one that included this line:

“How many Bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago?”

LaPierre is nothing more than a cheap, dangerous demagogue, constantly trying to act as if he and an association that represents an amazingly small percentage of gun owners in this country are the ones who represent the heart and soul of America, when all they are doing is fronting for the big gun companies who help fund the NRA. LaPierre isn’t a patriot, he’s a pimp.

A Daily News investigation put the spotlight on the NRA’s industry benefactors. Here are some patriots in the NRA’s so-called “Ring of Freedom” donors:

• Beretta USA Corp (listed in the $1 million to $4.9 million donation category).

• Springfield-Armory Inc. (also $1 million to $4.9 million).

• Benelli USA Corp. ($500,000 to $999,999 ).

• Sturm Ruger ($500,000 to $999,999).

So now Sarah Palin, the real cheerleader in the room in Houston, desperate to remain famous, becomes as much a face of the NRA as she has ever been. She does it by sounding as mean and dumb and angry as anybody in her audience, calling parents of children lost at Sandy Hook Elementary School “backdrops” for anti-gun rallies. And then, just because unintended self-parody is another of her specialties — like a great basketball player’s go-to move — she accuses the majority of Americans who want better gun control of exploiting tragedy.

In the process she becomes a warmup act to LaPierre politicizing the tragedy of the Boston Marathon the way he did when he called that press conference after Newtown and begged for more guns in schools, and on the street. It must have made Beretta and Springfield-Armory and all the rest of the gun companies practically moist with excitement.

“They use tragedy to . . . shame us into compromising our freedom!” LaPierre screams in Houston, and it is just more of the NRA’s great lie about how better background checks and a ban on the kind of assault rifle that Adam Lanza used to kill 26 people in an elementary school are an assault on freedom.

These are contemptible people. And if you are Sarah Palin — a woman hunting attention — and you sign on with them to hear the roar of another crowd, you are no better than they are.

The leaders of the NRA don’t speak for responsible gun owners in America, and never have. They don’t even speak to the spirit of the Second Amendment, written about a thousand years ago for single-shot muskets. They just continue to pound away at the same insane theme: Gun control is the beginning of the government coming to take their guns. As Gov. Cuomo has said, the image you get is some guy with a rifle in an attic window, watching as tanks come up his driveway.

LaPierre spoke over the weekend about “frightened citizens (of Boston) sheltered in place with no means to defend themselves.”

No, the frightened people are frightened little men like Wayne LaPierre, and the gun nuts cheering him on, all who think they become more American — and more manly — because they own guns. Not as manly as Sarah Palin, of course. But close enough.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national...7#ixzz2SWf48Ao9