Politics
In 2000, LaPierre said President Bill Clinton tolerated a certain amount of violence and killing to strengthen the case for gun control and to score points for his party. Clinton White House spokesman Joe Lockhart called it "really sick rhetoric, and it should be repudiated by anyone who hears it."
In 2004, LaPierre debated Rebecca Peters, head of the International Action Network on Small Arms, at King's College London.
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