organization it seemed to me that was really willing to say we don t need to sit here and argue and yell back and forth, we need to come together and we need to find a reasonable solution to these problems. mike weisser, stay with us. we will be joined by ana marie cox, and nra expert frank smyth. ana marie, you were watching most if not all of the nra proceedings this weekend. tell us what struck you most about what you were watching. i think if there was one headline to come out of it for me, this is not necessarily the most important thing that happened but the most astonishing thing, at the end of glenn beck s speech when he said he would be willing to fight for gun rights alongside blacks, whites, native americans, hispanics, and people from off the planet. i m speechless. at least he s consistent in his craziness. i mean, the whole thing was kind
minutes on the back of a napkin before i speak. the motto was stand and fight. the theme of the convention, stand and fight. words like battle, war. us against them. and stand and fight. we must remain vigilant. fear mongers. they don t get it because they don t get america. a cultural war the nra would like to wage. nothing new with the nra. absolutely nothing. doubling down on out of touch rhetoric. the nra needs to make president obama into a villain. president obama is awal. we need five more votes. we can do this. i think there will be an electoral price to be paid. the news media called me paranoid. paranoid fantasies. the epicenter of paranoid patriotism. really, he is frightened the losing what power he has. all the piers morgan, lawrence o donnells, rachel
[ applause ] boston proves it. when brave law enforcement officers did their jobs in that city, so courageously, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns. he uses boston as a device to get him to the punch line, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns. and he blurs it there because the proverbial nra good guy with 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,
bombers were. but wayne lapierre could still ask his reality challenged audience how many bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago. wayne doesn t care about or even know the facts of the boston case, so he probably doesn t know that the first person that the bombers encountered after the bombing had a gun. that was m.i.t. police officer sean collier. he was assassinated by tamerlan tsarnaev. he never had a chance to use his gun. wayne lapierre did not lead a moment of silence for sean collier this weekend at that convention. his death was not worthy of nra attention, even during the boston section of wayne lapierre s speech. the next person tamerlan tsarnaev approached was a citizen of china who is so
officer. that was the governor asking people to stay in their homes, asking them to. then after he did that, the boston police commissioner stepped up to the very same microphone and said this. mayor menino asked me to come here and tell that you the shelter in place recommendation has been extended throughout the city of boston. recommendation. it was a recommendation. it was not an order. but this is the lie that the nra will tell forever, that people were ordered to stay in their homes. in fact, in wide stretches of boston, the recommendation wasn t followed, because they considered themselves farther from watertown where they understood the action to be to not be threatened. downtown boston, people were walking, driving, doing all