The NRA was founded to counter the KKK.

And consider too how at this point Oliver North is on the board of the NRA and Alex thinks the NRA is a gun grab organization.

Because Rush Limbaugh and the NRA have done their job of keeping you in the dark.

The audience will always demand that the gun rights organizations take a couple more steps than they should because they believe that they're responding to the fake stories Alex tells them. The second effect is that the audience will push the NRA further towards living in Alex's false reality, or at least behaving as if that false reality were real in order to keep up with the base. For any sense of this, consider that Ted Nugent was a fairly controversial person to associate with back at this point, and he's now a member of the NRA board. Yeah. You know, they have shifted a little due to this external pressure based on, you know, false stories.

It's very suspicious timing.

They would then deny that S-22 even existed, the gun registration bill. But now it's come out that it does, and they weren't going to warn you about it. So they're loyal opposition. And it makes sense.

So the NRA, when they got attacked with this, went to lawyers and said, is it okay we put on parties for corporate people to come? Well, yeah. Well, we flow around on Providence. Yeah. But they're going to say it's bad. Just get rid of your media operations. I'll leave you alone.

Our enemy is playing four-dimensional chess wherein they're supporting us with their controlled opposition in the NRA who gets everybody to register their guns and tie it to hunting. And then the legislature that is under their control also is going to say you can't hunt anymore, thus removing the needs for guns.

You see, though, there are these indestructible microscopic chips called tagants that can be put in all explosives sold in this country that could very easily trace back any bombs used in attacks like this. In the 1980s, the Office of Technology Assessment did a study and found that implementing the use of tagants, quote, could increase arrests related to bombings by as much as 75%. But you know what? That's unilaterally a good thing, right? We want more. If people bomb stuff, we want to know who did it, right? That's a good thing. The NRA was super against it. I don't know why. And they lobbied really hard against the move and ultimately defeated it.

Anyway, when people talk about how the NRA is basically a terrorist organization, these are some of the reasons. Their rhetoric is indistinguishable from domestic terrorists, and their actions make it exceedingly difficult for law enforcement to solve crimes committed by domestic terrorists. That's why people make those sorts of comments.

Specifically, the NRA had a close relationship with Taurus, which explains why they, presumably a gun safety organization, didn't warn their members about the danger that these defective guns posed.

Actually, Alex doesn't like the NRA at this point. Oh, okay. Yeah, he says that they're loyal opposition.

Also, the quote: civilian ownership of any firearm in the United States threatens a legitimate power monopoly of the state is not a quote from the UN at all. It's a quote from right-wing blogs and talking points put out by the NRA and the Heritage Foundation in order to undermine support for the treaty.

Yeah, the NRA makes a lot more money on the day after a mass shooting. You bet. So they kind of have a financial incentive for mass shootings to continue.

How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse. They're actually blaming gun owners.

The NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse.

However, in 2014, when the Ebola crisis was heating up, we didn't have a Surgeon General and hadn't for about a year. In November, Oh, because he was anti-gun! Yes, I remember that! He believed that guns were a public health crisis, and thus the NRA lobbied strongly against his nomination. In a time of public anxiety about a potential outbreak, we didn't have a top doctor in office. And literally the only reason is that he believed that guns led to health problems. And the NRA found that position unacceptable. The NRA didn't bring Ebola in or anything like that. But no matter how you slice this, by depriving the country of a Surgeon General because of their lobbying in Congress through the Republican Party, they absolutely made the Ebola crisis worse.

The idea that there was widespread gun confiscation after Hurricane Katrina is not based in reality, but in fact is a myth that was created by the NRA along with the Second Amendment Association. They were trying to create this image of an out-of-control federal power taking advantage of a horrible tragedy in order to grab people's guns.

The NRA is a pro-gun control group, and more and more of that's coming out. They pushed the 68 Gun Control Act and got it passed. They were set up by the federal government in 1870. They're there to neutralize and control gun owners.

Alex hates the NRA in 2009. Alex doesn't like the NRA in 2009.

Well, I think my favorite part of the article was when he quotes Chief Justice Berger talking about the NRA. He said that in pushing the narrative that the Second Amendment means that everyone has the right to own and carry guns, that the NRA was perpetuating, quote, one of the greatest pieces of fraud. I repeat the word fraud on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen.

Of course the NRA wants mass shootings to continue to happen. They make a shit ton of money when they do.

The NRA, to a great extent, is a loyal opposition. It was created by the federal government, as I know you know. You know that, right? Post-Civil War.

But that works pretty solidly against the argument that everyone who's aware of things knows that it was started to help the black people.