Amnesty International considers waterboarding to be a form of torture and in violation of international law.

Palin also encouraged people not to "waste a bullet" on a warning shot but to blow any potential threat away because "ammo's expensive." She added that mothers should carry guns on them at all times to protect their children from the bad guys apparently lurking around every corner.

The display from @silencerco #NRAAM pic.twitter.com/c23BunS2lv — NRA (@NRA) April 27, 2014 Silencers: for when you want to defend yourself against the bad guys without waking the whole house up.

Several possible presidential candidates stopped by as well, including Sen. Marco Rubio, Gov. Bobby Jindal and former Sen. Rick Santorum. Santorum said everyone in his family is a member of the NRA, including his 5-year-old daughter, and that he buys his wife bullets rather than flowers on special occasions. That's a pretty big deal, since, as Palin said, ammo is expensive. Rubio said that gun control laws would only take guns out of the hands of "law-abiding Americans," making it harder for them to defend themselves while not preventing any "future tragedies." Jindal called people in favor of gun control "liberal extremists" who also "want to take away our religious liberty" and health insurance options. Gov. Scott Walker appeared via video and told people to donate to his reelection campaign, while Sen. Ted Cruz said in his video message that "the Second Amendment is under constant siege by the Democrats in Washington who will use any tragedy to further their gun control agenda."

Of course, NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre was on hand to give basically the same speech he gave at CPAC, as Media Matters pointed out, before unveiling the NRA's latest ad, which tells you all about how the world is out to kill you and guns are your only protection, so buy a lot of them, even if it's just to protect you from con artists:

Nice touch saying "hypocrites" over a shot of Chicago, a.k.a. Obamaland, NRA ad people.

Here's a special bonus ad about how NRA members will "crush" Michael Bloomberg and his gun control-funding deep pockets. It stars some of the same people from the other ad and makes no mention of the millions of dollars the NRA gets from gun companies, an oversight I'm sure:

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