Friday 12.21.2012, NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre held a press conference in the aftermath of the Newtown massacre in which he accurately described the NRA market demographic and pushed for more firearm sales. Four amusing quotes follow.

1. "[O]ur society is populated by an unknown number of genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them."

2. "How many more copycats are waiting in the wings for their moment of fame — from a national media machine that rewards them with the wall-to-wall attention and sense of identity that they crave."

3. "There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people."

4. "Isn't fantasizing about killing people as away to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?"

LaPierre took no questions at the end of his speech.  While non-conservative commentators were predictably dismissive,  The New York Post and the Daily News, historically conservative publications, were unexpectedly antagonistic to the NRA position.  Apparently, to implicitly condone the massacre of children in the service of firearm sales was slightly distasteful to them.