National Rifle Association CEO and Executive Vice President
Wayne LaPierre was arrested on Wednesday, Jan. 7 for indecent exposure and
public lewdness when he was caught manually pleasuring himself at the Bethesda
Row Cinema movie theater in Fairfax, Va. during a screening of the new Clint
Eastwood directed movie “American Sniper.”
LaPierre was spotted physically stimulating himself by a
theater usher near the midway point of the movie, a biopic of U.S. military
sniper Chris Kyle. Kyle was proclaimed to be the most lethal sniper in U.S.
military history with 160 confirmed kills out of 255 probable kills. All 160
kills are shown in the film, which is more of a slideshow of headshots than an
actual movie. Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper portrays Kyle in the
film.
“American Sniper” has been hailed by many film critics as
one of the best films of the year, with Gerry McBride of the Boston Globe
saying, “’American Sniper’ is a wet dream of epic proportions for conservatives
everywhere.” Hank Baker of The Courier-Journal out of Louisville, Ky. added “you
will jizz your pants every time Chris Kyle takes a shot. I guarantee it.”
The usher reportedly asked LaPierre to stop stimulating
himself, to which LaPierre mumbled something about his God-given rights as an
American. The usher then notified the police officer assigned to provide
security at the theater who halted the screening and arrested LaPierre for the
indecent exposure and public lewdness.
LaPierre was booked and released on bail from the Fairfax
County Police Department within hours of his arrest.
LaPierre has been the CEO and Executive Vice President of
the NRA since 1991 and a member of the NRA, the nation’s largest gun rights
organization, since 1977. LaPierre has been the controversial voice of the NRA
in recent years with statements about how tragedies like the one that occurred at
the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Ct. in 2012 were direct results of
schools being “gun-free zones.” LaPierre and the NRA have also been strictly
against gun control laws that would make background checks on gun buyers
stricter, despite the fact that the majority of the country is in favor of
them.
LaPierre released a statement through his attorneys that
read: “My self-pleasure was in self-defense. The only way to stop a bad guy
wacking it in a public movie theater is with a good guy wacking it in a public movie
theater.”
