The organization typically uses the first few days after an episode of mass gun violence to lie low before it comes out hard in opposition to any new gun control measures. Then, on Thursday morning, the conference’s organizers released a revised schedule with both Mr. LaPierre and Dana Loesch, an N.R.A. Ms. Loesch, who just hours earlier had appeared subdued as she spoke softly in defense of the N.R.A. Mr. LaPierre evidently noticed, prompting him to comment on the stillness in the hall, which he wrote off as fear over the government oppression he warned was coming. You should be frightened.”He repeatedly returned to his attacks against gun control advocates as socialists lying in wait.

Source: New York Times February 22, 2018 15:42 UTC