NRA Takes Congress

Dana Milbank:
“When he and his colleagues stepped off the elevator in the Dirksen
Senate Office Building on Wednesday morning and found TV cameras waiting
in the hallway, LaPierre’s bodyguards swung into action. One of them,
in blatant violation of congressional rules, bumped and body-checked
journalists out of the way so they couldn’t film LaPierre or question
him as he walked. ‘You don’t have jurisdiction here!’ a cameraman
protested as an NRA goon pushed him against a wall. After the melee,
congressional officials informed the NRA officials that, in the halls of
Congress, they had to follow congressional procedures — which prohibit
manhandling. This must have come as a surprise to the gun lobbyists,
whose swagger seems to suggest that they are, in fact, in control of
Congress.”