>> The NRA has a new president, and she is not a fan of a freshman lawmaker who ran her
campaign specifically on the issue of gun control, and won.
Now, Carolyn Meadows is the new President of the NRA.
And she believes that Representative Lucy McBath in Georgia, only won because of the
fact that she is a black woman, didn't win because of her actual policy proposals and
her platform.
So here's what Caroline Meadows, again, this is the NRA President, had to say in reference
to representative Lucy McBath, quote, it is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason
she won was because of her anti-gun stance.
That didn't have anything to do with it.
It had to do with being a minority female.
And the Democrats really turned out.
And that's the problem we have with conservatives.
We don't turn out as well.
I think that might be the first person I've ever heard argue that Democrats turn out more
than Republicans do.
>> Maybe she was saying that we don't turn out as well in live, like as a good people.
>> In that case, I agree with her.
She'd be right.
>> We don't turn out.
And then yeah, I think she, maybe she.
>> Nice save, nice save.
>> Very wise.
We don't turn out as well.
>> So just to give you actual data to disprove the ridiculousness that you just heard.
McBath's district actually leans significantly Republican and went for Presdient Donald Trump
in 2016.
McBath inched ahead of her competitor, Republican Karen Handel who has said that she'll run
again with 50.5% of the vote in 2018.
So she won by a very slim margin.
But I wanna be very clear, she won while running in State of Georgia on gun control policy.
I mean, that is insane.
So McBath didn't respond directly to Meadows but she did tweet about her victory, and I
would argue that it's probably in reference to Meadows, and I wanna share some of those
tweets with you.
So let's take a look at the first one.
She says, I was just at a mom, I love my son, Jordan, more than anything else in the world.
After Jordan was murdered, I realized that nobody was gonna change our loss of us, so
I had to do it myself.
So that's just, she's so inspirational, inspiring.
She also says, after Jordan was ripped away from me, I did not stop being his mom, every
single thing I do Is out of the love that I have for my son.
My love for Jordan is what I extend to my work, or to the work I do in my community
every single day.
So she's not quiet about gun control.
And she has been pushing the state of Georgia, in some cases successful so, to do something
about gun control.
In fact, she also tweeted about that.
Let's go to the next graphic.
I have faced attack after attack from the far right, but that hasn't stopped my work
for families of Georgia, District 8.
The House has already passed gun safety legislation for the first time in decades, and there is
much more to come, yes.
>> That's great, there's- >> I love it.
>> Some of these people are just, I mean the lady, the new President of the NRA, being
this white lady playing the race card.
>> Yeah.
>> It's just, I mean you're totally insensitive to the times we live in.
You shouldn't be playing that card regardless.
>> Mm-hm.
>> She could have said there was other reasons if she really wants to downplay the gun thing.
But I feel, and I hope, fingers crossed, that there is a tide against for gun control.
You see Eric Swalwell running on gun control and I hope that he goes far because I really
feel, how many massacres are we gonna need?
>> Exactly, right.
There was another shooting today in Colorado.
And the interesting thing for what Meadows is doing is she's kinda playing on this narrative
that everything's great for blacks, and people just voted for you cuz you're a black female,
and that's a hot topic.
Whereas, we still carry with us negative stereotypes and connotations that make us vulnerable members
of society.
We just saw what went down Sandra Bland and the video coming out today.
That's things we face on a daily basis.
Getting jobs, and having opportunities, and just being able to exist in your own space
is something that's continually denied to people of color.
>> Mm-hm.
>> And so for this Meadows woman to pretend that it somehow elevates you in a political
sphere where we have been excluded by and large for however long, as in forever, it's
like come on now.
But hey, you see maybe one black person do well in some form or fashion, and you assume,
yes, everything's great for them.
They're taking everything, and they're getting things by virtue of their blackness or their
color.
And it's like, really, yo?
It's a struggle still everyday and it's still very real.
>> So Gallup recently surveyed Americans a nationally represented sample of Americans
to see what most American's feel in regard to gun legislation and gun control.
And here's what they found.
So in a recent Gallup poll, 61% of Americans believe the nation's gun laws need to be more
strict, 61%.
Also, 61 worry about the availability of guns a great deal or a fair amount.
So most Americans wanna do something about this, and I don't think that McBath won based
on luck or on accident.
Again, her platform was all about doing something about the laxed gun laws that are leading
to all these deaths.
And she won.
And the NRA doesn't like that truth because it doesn't fit with their narrative.
>> That's right.
>> I wish I could get in the heads of the Wayne LaPierres and the Dana Loche.
I'm just wondering, do they have a lot of financial interests in the gun culture?
Is that why they're so passionate or are they really
>> I'm curious.
I'm curious because at some point a objective person would sit there and go, all right,
you know what?
Yes, there are certain regulations we should implement, there are certain guns we really
don't need out there, and the argument a lot of times if you hear back ago.
Well, there's already laws on the books so we just got to implement them, well, okay,
then implement them and let's go further and let's look at these problems it's not just
mental health.
>> Right.
>> It's a combination as somebody who's trying to be objective here, I'm gonna say it's not
just the guns, it is mental health and its guns and there's a lot of other aspects to
it.
But that's why I'm saying these guys are so zero tolerance in terms of any kind of legislation.
So just wonder what kind of financial interests they have, and where their real sincere heart
is, or I don't know, I'd be curious.
>> I think their heart is where the money is.
>> Yeah.
>> That's all.
>> And the weapons manufacturers help keep the NRA alive.
And if you're funded by gun manufacturers, then you're gonna do and say as you're told.
And they just keep pushing this narrative that's been so incredibly harmful.
And yes, we do have laws.
But there are also all sorts of terrible loopholes to those laws, including the federal background
check and how the FBI has a very limited amount of time to conduct a background check when
someone is attempting to buy a gun.
Of course the gun show loophole, we've talked about that, everyone knows about that.
We know that those loopholes exist and there needs to be something done to change that.