this thanksgiving weekend american history tv on c-span 3 has four days of featured programming beginning thursday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. we ll take you inside the national world war ii museum in new orleans as we look back 70 years to the war s end and its legacy starting with the allied invasion of north africa. friday night at 8:00, a new series road to the white house rewind takes a look back at the presidential campaigns of ronald reagan, bill clinton, george h.w. bush. and then saturday afternoon, tomb of the unknown soldier. the role and creation of the tomb guard and stories about some of the notable people who are buried at the cemetery. and sunday afternoon at 4:00 on real america, the cbs news special report on the five-week battle of la deung valley. and a look now at the 2016 elections and gun policy. representatives from the firearms coalition, the citizens committee for the right to keep and bear arms, and other groups address the 30th annual gun rights po
do you believe that they re ignorant? are the efforts ignorant? they are ignorant. but they re not stupid. we can t confuse the two. they re ignorance is that they don t get it. but they re not stupid. the efforts to take away our rights and oppose our rights are meticulously effective. it s strategic. they know what they re doing. and the effort to try to minimize the voice of women will not work. but we have to help amplify the voice of women, because what s the tactic? the tactic is emotion. stories. guess who has lots of stories, guys, that this world is not hearing? women. stories of strength, courage, fierce protection of their family. there are some incredible stories that we need to be sharing and we need to have the communities hear these stories. our response typically is statistics. numbers. from my cold dead hands, that s what we hear. is that accurate? yes. is it effective? we need stories. we need to tap into the emotion of this topic. we need to be focusing on
people around him at all time. [ applause ] i don t think governor gilmore was worried about it, do you? no. you re not a threat. you re the good guys. that s right. so it s the safest room in the state as bob said. there s a lot of information out there and information is the power of politics. if you want to win elections, you have to have information. and part of the critical information that you need is information about the candidates, where they stand, what they stand for, do they really mean what they say, have they proven that they mean what they say, what did they say a couple of years ago, what are they saying now, how is it different. there is lots of sites out there. there s lots of research out there. the national shooting sports foundation has their gun vote project online. good information, good resources. the nra, gun owners of america, citizens committee for the right to keep and bear arms, the various state organizations, the arizona citizens defense l
these essential tools, knives that millions of americans use every day at home, at work, at play, are also arms, protected by the second amendment. it is an essential right. for six years now, i have been coming to grpc to share this message, that the second amendment doesn t save firearms. knife rights is the second front in the defense of our second amendment. the good news is that people all over america are getting the message. our success is translating into both respect and new opportunity. we are being covered by major media, including in many instances left wing media such as new york s the village voice and mother jones. it s all positive. knife right success and our effort to roll back the absurd anti-knife laws and to pass preemption is also introducing the second amendment to an entire group of folks who have never considered the second amendment their own. and many of them have been anti-second amendment. as a result of the tragic incident with freddie gray, knif