Brooklynites take aim at NRA head’s comments
Brooklyn politicians, businesspeople and residents are up in arms – so to speak – about the head of the National Rifle Association’s comments about the area in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
In an editorial last week in the Daily Caller, a conservative website, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, said: “After Hurricane Sandy, we saw the hellish world that the gun prohibitionists see as their utopia. Looters ran wild in south Brooklyn. There was no food, water or electricity. And if you wanted to walk several miles to get supplies, you better get back before dark, or you might not get home at all.”
First-person accounts of Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay and nearby areas after the storm all challenged LaPierre’s assessment of the situation—although most agreed that looting did take place.