KINGSPORT — National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre took aim Friday night at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s recent comment that people in small-town America are “bitter about their lives and that’s why they cling to their guns and their religion.”LaPierre, speaking to about 200 people at an event organized by the Tennessee Conservative Political Action Committee, claimed Obama’s remark was a peek into how “the elites” think about people.“It was and sounded like an arrogant statement from an out-of-touch elitist,” LaPierre said. “Senator Obama opposes people having guns in their homes for self-defense while he and his family enjoy armed professional security around the clock.”The other Democratic presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, is just as bad as Obama, but “she’s been bad a whole lot longer,” LaPierre charged.“No matter how much she tries to tell her story right now ... Hillary Clinton was the most anti-gun first lady in the most anti-Second Amendment administration in American history,” said LaPierre.