My tweets

• Sat, 14:26: The NRA wants MORE guns in schools?? Hell NO! http://t.co/3saaoS5e #Newtown #CTshooting
• Sat, 15:15: RT @tbogg: "When all you have is a gun, everything looks like a target" best describes Wayne LaPierre's performance on Friday. #NRA
• Sat, 15:28: This is...not a good book. The worldbuilding is lacking, the characters are cliche, and the plot is http://t.co/7E7qwKmr
• Sat, 15:36: Andrew Sullivan for House Speaker! "This party, not to mince words, is unfit for government." http://t.co/2L96ETPF #fb
• Sat, 15:49: And people still died. http://t.co/6N1LhFZp
• Sat, 16:01: Gorgeous. http://t.co/VcJDpiq9
• Sat, 20:12: This is a fascinating article about the 'fiscal curb' (to borrow Lawrence O'Donnell's phrase) negotiations. (If... http://t.co/pzL62LaO

"Satire is focused bitterness"

“A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.”  ― G.K. Chesterton

This is from the Onion--but I don't doubt this is exactly what is going through Wayne LaPierre's head.

National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre said Monday that somewhere around 1,000 kids would have to die in a school shooting in order for the organization to reconsider their longstanding opposition to gun control.

"Yeah, that's probably the only way we'd reassess much of anything at this point: 1,000 dead kids, shot up pretty good, lying face down in the school auditorium or something like that," LaPierre said, noting that anything less than 1,000 dead kids would not be enough for the NRA to stop urging Congress to pass pro-gun legislation. "I mean, that's just a ballpark number, but I imagine seeing 1,000 or so body bags being wheeled out of a school and a whole town of crying parents would probably make us reflect on our values for at least a little bit."

"So yeah, more or less 1,000 dead kids," LaPierre added. "Something around there. And teachers don't count."

What a disgusting man. What a horrid organization.