The National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre went on Face the Nation Sunday morning to emit not just a word salad but a word salad bar of NRA talking points. On Orlando, for instance:

We all mourn for what happened, John. But we face a terrorist challenge where there on the verge of overwhelming us. What happened this past week is, the president, the whole gun ban movement said, hey, don't look at terrorists. Look over here. Divert your attention. Take your eyes off the problem, because they don't want to face the embarrassment of their failure in this terrorist area, and they want to cover their butts and not talk about it. You can't save the country with politics. The politically correct policies of the White House are intruding right now in military, terrorism, law enforcement. It's all being politicized with the politically correct White House nose and fingers in areas they don't belong. And that's -- now, let's start with the terrorist watch list.

Take your eyes off the problem of a guy with a semi-automatic weapon and no connections to ISIS claiming allegiance to ISIS while using that semi-automatic weapon to kill 49 people. Wait, sorry, no, was that politicizing with political correctness? I’m sorry! Terrorism, terrorism, terrorism.

As the Senate prepares to vote on a series of gun measures, for the NRA, it’s all about the Cornyn amendment, because Republicans are suddenly all about due process, where “due process” means “how far can we water down gun control proposals without looking like total jackwagons in the wake of a mass shooting?” And yes, LaPierre said “Nobody wants terrorist with guns.” It’s just better to leave open the possibility of a terrorist getting a gun than to make it slightly more difficult—like, say, as difficult as it is to get a driver’s license and register and insure a care—for a non-terrorist to get a gun.