Snopes says the nervous disorder referenced above is "Undetermined"
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"Was NRA Leader Wayne LaPierre Deferred from Vietnam Due to a Nervous Disorder?"
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No sane person focuses fear like Wayne LaPierre.
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No sane person focuses fear like Wayne LaPierre.
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Wayne 'Call Me Crazy' LaPierre might just be
Psychiatrists say the NRA vice president specializes in fear and paranoia
Comments (21)BY ERIN DURKIN / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
DECEMBER 24, 2012
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Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association has talked about the safety his members feel when they have a gun next to them. That's a bit paranoid, experts point out.
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Mental health experts recoiled at comments by NRA honcho Wayne LaPierre blaming violence on "lunatics" and "monsters" roaming the streets — and touting more guns as a form of protection
The American Psychiatric Association and a number of leading researchers denounced the comments as offensive and inaccurate.
"If it's crazy to call for putting police and armed security in our schools to protect our children, then call me crazy," LaPierre said Sunday on “Meet the Press.”
"I have people all over the country calling me saying, 'Wayne, I went to bed safer last night because I have a firearm. Don't let the media try to make this a gun issue."
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, said LaPierre was playing into fears that are uniquely Americans.
"Mr. LaPierre is right when he says his members feel stronger, safer, more powerful with weapons in their houses and in their hands — but whether in fact they are safer is another question," he said.
"To the extent that the NRA stokes the fears of ordinary people about the dangers in society, and sells them on the notion that only a gun, or several guns, can protect them from the dangers that lurk outside, they have more members," he added.
"It's completely in their interest to try to promote that vision of America as an intrinsically dangerous place where one needs to be constantly on guard."
Appelbaum said the comments, while ridiculed by many pundits, would play well with the NRA's base — and make things harder for people suffering from mental illness, most of whom are not violent.
"There's no question that his comments were intended to, and will in fact harm people with mental illness, in a variety of ways. His comments stoke the fears of the public which already exist about people with mental illness," he said.
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