Harlem mom: NRA boss 'is a murderer'

Harlem mom: NRA boss 'is a murderer'

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In May, the Daily News accompanied Harlem mom Jackie Rowe-Adams to the NRA’s national meeting in St. Louis, where Rowe-Adams had a verbal duel with group's boss Wayne LaPierre. She called LaPierre 'a murderer' after his remarks at press conference on Friday.

A bereaved Harlem mom who once confronted an NRA bigwig blasted his remarks on the Newtown massacre Friday as “disrespectful.”

In a nationally televised press conference, Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s CEO and executive vice president, blamed recent shooting sprees on violent video games and films. He called for armed guards to patrol every school in America.

“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” the firearms advocate said.

But Jackie Rowe-Adams, whose two sons were shot to death by gun-toting thugs, took issue with LaPierre’s logic.

“All he wants is more guns,” the feisty mom said. “He’s just promoting more violence.”

Rowe-Adams, 64, a Parks Department recreation manager who co-founded Harlem Mothers SAVE (Stop Another Violent End), knows LaPierre and his hardline views upfront and personal. In May, the Daily News accompanied her to the NRA’s national meeting in St. Louis, where Rowe-Adams had a verbal duel with LaPierre.

The head of the 4.3 million-member gun owners group promised he would work with her to stem the scourge of illegal firearms in New York.

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Jackie Rowe-Adams of Harlem sons Anthony and Tyrone Bouldin to gun-toting thugs.

“I understand your pain . . . we will talk again,” LaPierre vowed at the time. “We want to stop it more than anyone.”

But LaPierre wasn’t sincere, Rowe-Adams said. She later called him a two-faced liar after he ignored followup letters and phone calls inviting him to attend an August peace rally in Harlem.

Rowe-Adams sent LaPierre another letter this week, asking the NRA to take some responsibility for the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter in Connecticut that took the lives of 20 kids and six staffers.

Then, on Friday, she watched as the NRA’s big gun chided video game makers and the movie industry.

“Stop playing the blame game and take ownership,” Rowe-Adams said. “How can you blame video games when you’re promoting guns, guns, guns?”

Her sons, Anthony and Tyrone Bouldin, were gunned down in 1982 and 1998. Anthony, 17, was killed in Harlem and Tyrone was murdered in Baltimore.

Rowe-Adams told LaPierre about her children when the two met in St. Louis. She said at the time that he felt her pain.

“But today I thought he was out of his mind,” she said. “He is a murderer. I know that sounds hard, but he is a murderer.”

The NRA did not respond to a request for comment Friday.

beekman@nydailynews.com