of unhinged, but mr. weisser is in good company. my dad was a lifetime member of the nra, a marksman most of his life, owns multiple guns, he resigned his membership recently as well. i don t think they ll be alone. the average nra member sees what s going on in houston and rhetoric is getting further away from what a normal person wants out of gun ownership, which is to be a responsible gun owner. they don t look responsible any more. i look forward to another organization coming forward and also having some sanity from people that know what they re talking about, but want to reach agreement. frank smyth, there s a new 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,
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. you mention in your letter to wayne lapierre that gun sales are what his mission is all about, and you say in 2011 ruger stock was trading at $21 a share. now it is at 51. smith and wesson was 3 bucks a share, today it is almost $9 a share. what happened in that period of time to push this share price of these gun makers up like that? well, those prices really started going up not so much in 2011 but really once the president was reelected. once president obama was reelected, and the nra of course spent four years reminding
sorts of things in far less numbers, but no one, going to repeat this, no one was ordered to stay in their homes, but that lie, that lie will live. ron paul will continue to tell that lie, the nra will continue to tell that lie because they thrive on the notion there s looming some police state that is coming to control them, so much so that they have to be ready with their second amendment rights to revolt and fight against that police state. we will have more about the lies told about the lies told by wayne lapierre later coming up in the rewrite. [ male announcer ] every inch. every minute. every second we chip away. making the colors of earth and sunset skies into rich interior accents. or putting the beauty of a forest in the palm of your hands. it will take you to another place.
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 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. police officers are the first people those armed republicans and nra members imagine themselves shooting and killing with guns and high capacity magazines. wayne lapierre talks them into stockpiling those things in their homes.
you mention in your letter to wayne lapierre that gun sales are what his mission is all about, and you say in 2011 ruger stock was trading at $21 a share. now it is at 51. smith and wesson was 3 bucks a share, today it is almost $9 a share. what happened in that period of time to push this share price of these gun makers up like that? well, those prices really started going up not so much in 2011 but really once the president was reelected. once president obama was reelected, and the nra of course spent four years reminding membership if obama got reelected in a second term, he would do everything he could to take their guns away. once that happened, then of course you had the natural reaction of people who have been listening to this rhetoric for four years and see he s reelected, and they say okay,