A gun is a citizen with a gun, not a police officer. there is no debate in this country. there s no debate in the united states senate about police officers having guns. the nra s cause, its mission, what that convention was about, is making sure everyone else, everyone other than police officers, can get any kind of gun and ammunition they want any time they want it. in fact, the nra s mission is to make sure citizens can outgun police officers, make sure we all have access to even mo more lethal weapons than police officers can use and afford. the psychotic vision of an armed uprising against our government, the uprising that 44% of republicans think might have to happen soon is an uprising against police officers.
Defeat in the u.s. senate with his step at a time gun owner registration under the guise of universal background checks. he s now threatening democratic senators who are friends of nra. he will destroy them, if he can. and here is the nra s executive vice president, wayne la pierre. the senate vote two weeks ago is a skirmish in what can be defined as a long war against our constitutional rights. we will never surrender our guns, never. and to the political and media elite who score us, we say let them be damned. [ cheers and applause ] after that speech, this open letter to wayne la pierre was in
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Lawrence, is a man named james porter, attorney from alabama. he is somebody whose father was a president of the nra back in 1959 and 60. that was a time when the national rifle association in fact support gun control. so mr. porter s challenge within the nra is to live up to his father s legacy and at the same time communicate to nra loyalists that he has made the transition as someone who now is staunchly opposed to gun control. you saw it coming from mr. porter in a speech a year ago in new york state and saw it again this weekend in the speech he gave in houston. and he s also attempting it seems to broaden the message of the nra, to broaden it beyond guns and make it a, quote, culture war, which i think is part of a strategy, something the nra does often when it feels like the gun issue may not be saleable, try to broaden the message. this time there may be too much focus on them and they may face troubles.
President of the nra. we just saw a clip of him. among the lies he told, he casually referred to the president of the united states as a fake president. what does he mean by that and what else should we know about this new president of the nra? the new president of the national rifle association, lawrence, is a man named james porter, attorney from alabama. he is somebody whose father was a president of the nra back in 1959 and 60. that was a time when the national rifle association in fact support gun control. so mr. porter s challenge within the nra is to live up to his father s legacy and at the same time communicate to nra loyalists that he has made the transition as someone who now is staunchly opposed to gun control. you saw it coming from mr. porter in a speech a year ago in new york state and saw it again this weekend in the speech he gave in houston. and he s also attempting it seems to broaden the message of the nra, to broaden it beyond