we have the Yearly Meeting of the NRA and of course the head of the NRA Wayne
LaPierre is they're giving his big keynote speech
got a couple sections are that we're gonna show to you the first though
is a like we like to talk about the idea that the NRA is a buncha people were
kinda scared that they're losing the country
like it slipping away from them and you know we could if we want to put together
big montage ball that that's too much work let's see if we live here in just
one paragraph
can perfectly encapsulate that idea you know
freedom has never needed artifacts more than now
almost everywhere you look
something has gone wrong you feel like in your heart
you know in your
got something in our country has gone wrong
the core values we believe that
the things we care about most in our lives are changing
a roadie our right to speak
are right together our right to privacy the freedom to work
to practice our religion and race and protect our families the way we see fit
those are
old values they are new values
they are core freedoms the
core freedoms they have always to find us
as a nation we feel
as we are here this afternoon we feel that slipping away
don't care to elaborate what a great fuckin speech at peace
I love my job to the audience because he could not look more like
and eighties Aaron Gallagher audience minus the joy think
like nobody in enjoying they had only an RNC speech
why did you go this is what you gonna get yes he's scared scared about the law
so
rights and I think that we probably agree we are losing civil rights we just
don't seem to agree with Wayne LaPierre about which writes that was alright and
I don't even
I don't even agree that Hughes actually afraid of losing someone his rights I
mean he mentioned a number of things including freedom of religion
I mean really even argue about how religion is being attacked right now
when you have thirty three states that don't recognize same-sex marriage
when you have anti-abortion legislation being passed in many red states we're a
little people get to practice their religion
and on top of that they didn't dictate our morality
yet so that's really religious our religion being attacked
and then he goes on this league ridiculous thing about privacy really I
haven't heard you talk about how your privacy is being violated in till now
you're worried about the NSA how come you never given a speech about that
overall grade point at a because
what he does here is a as a very solid track that
that political folks and politicians and and sort of the
and charlatans like Wayne LaPierre have used for years which is that they talk
about things you're losing one course
there is no danger there is no threat and you're not losing any those thanks
knows the talks about
the heart and the sole is he was really saying is
I pull give you any actual concrete examples on anything
that you're losing any freedoms so I'll just say that you feel it in your heart
you feel it in your gut
in your soul in your opinion in your blood but not you know
picking your years or anywhere you could you know we read about it with your on
your brain during your brain right now it's actually happening there's not one
example which just is baby sense that the life you know and want to protect
is slipping away and it's just complete warship who reminds me of the episode
the news room where
the fake Michele Bachmann is talking about losing writes everything will not
quit says can you name three right you don't have today that she had five years
ago
and yeah I think a look is a terrible speaker obviously that's why people
aren't exactly like getting library where he'd look like jesse jackson
when he can to get in touch and the seller but but I think that he he what
he is good at and why he is the head of the NRA is he's perfectly reading
his audience in terms of what they want to hear they do think in these very
vague terms they're losing the country
it looks different the clothing is different the skin tones are different
it's sort of a foreign to them and they're very scared and I think that he
is accurately
reading that I think that look he wants to keep them scared and so he's been
vague up until now but let's talk about even scarier things
he's gonna list about fifty different things and you currently
terrified out we know in the world that surrounds us
there are terrorists and there are home invaders
drug cartel carjackers
knockout gamers and rate first and haters
and campus killers airport killers shopping mall killers
mash shooter I it's like it's like billy joel's we didn't start the fire
that's why I keep thinking every time that I heard that has that great light
you know bondhu
Budapest alabama coach Jeff Payton place bridges grace trouble in those who has
I just let the dogs out rather
so mom with that in mind I taking his lyrics and never
and I grabbed a mild song I'll be singing again
I I love it I love it I'm
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terrorist home invaders drug cartels not go gamers carjackers reber's heaters
campus killers a Born Killers Marilyn Monroe
hacer I don't know meryl but I do like the
I gotta go now works terrorist home invaders drug cartels not gamers but
that's good that it doesn't sound really got no I don't feel like he had members
in through the haters just to keep like
the rhythm going or something water knockout gamers
hello brother out your game was the idea that people were randomly it ran out of
battery function so they work up a little bit like video that went viral
about it
of people actually doing this and there was a lot of fear that it would become
this big thing
just hasn't he hasn't moved not have it and he know they just love it because
it's somebody being violent without a gun
yeah that's a good point they can point to and say that that's an easy
yeah and so lucky he is scared okay I don't think that is necessarily scared
home invaders
you know there is there a couple points over the first though is we don't of
unnecessarily get to give you a lot of good news on the program and so I'd like
to do that
so we left here is telling you about how scared you should be %uh
home invaders and carjackers and Road Rangers and Reapers and things like that
didn't you are so so so much safer today than you were five years ago let alone
10 or a hundred years ago the rates a great
are way lower than they were thirty or forty years ago all violent crime is
down and you never can hear this
and in regard to rate is very quickly let me but was that because the
will each year the goes by well it's still a problem
winner more and more comfortable with reporting exact
yeah yeah and so that you may not just be ready we're just going up even if the
crime is not yet you think that we might actually going down more than what you
think
yeah and and so %uh someone in a video posted post a link to I'm
that the Angels a far better nature some like that a book thats been written
about how we are in
historically you great times in terms of violence both in Warren also
just sorta crime and things like that big he doesn't get money donated to the
NRA if he makes you feel safe but you should feel safer society is progressing
this is the fruits other
as I was watching that I mean the very first threat that he mentioned was
terrorism and it was
the classic fear-mongering that you would get on Fox News the type of
fear-mongering that would convince the American People that yes
we need to do a preemptive war because their our weapons of mass destruction
me nothing to fear mongering is so destructive and and so scary because it
leads to irrational
actions and I want you mention that the stats indicate the crime is going down
but
that kind of information is super inconvenient for someone who's getting
paid off by weapons manufacturer that way
and then another but a good news once but let's spread the good news
but her mom I he won a good news I am i doing johnnie wanna hear the good news
exactly the people want to hear the good news here's a good news everybody
gun control groups are raising more money than they are this is a gambling
7,000 people there that the
there's these days they their bill they just bring
I they brought the 70,000 singing
the hebron they brought seventy thousand people really are a good match in
but they're not making as much money in this doesn't even count fifty million
dollars the Bloomberg is bringing yeah
granted these figures about who's raising more money gun
gun control group or the NRA pro-gun groups
is a little unclear because there's all kinds of money that don't doesn't have
to be reported
but significantly the old standard was that the NRA outrage that gun rights
activist
I'll raised people in favor of gun control by I'll
102 what by 101 but now in this 2014 cycle
we have completely turn that around with very slight lead not even a slight lead
gun control group
erased twenty 1.3 million dollars since the November 2012 elections
sixteen point three million raised by gun rights groups and that doesn't even
count as a set
million dollars at least fifty million dollars pledged just by Bloomberg other
people obviously contribute to that
most that money is going to be expand and the 2014 and maybe a 2016 in the
election cycle but
look at significant and and you go get 'em with the money and and
the notion that that we have maintained on the show for so long as the
why we so afraid these guys like II and I yeah I know the answer to that
question but there's a way to counter that
is make you make them equally afraid up the other guys
love your own powerful lobby and and obviously the lobby making something and
producing something guns in the lobby was not producing anything is at a
disadvantage but nonetheless
the evening the playing field and put put the pair got into some
why can some people lose in states because they were in favor of gun
control
yet you I mean look it would be great right now especially considering the
past year we've had
a lotta very high-profile shootings and things like that
you would think that if anything was going to lead to some countries in favor
of gun control
love common-sense gun control of course they are yet and I look to you what up
that they they have the advantage at least in the money that that's currently
being reported which is great for Bloomberg's group has come out and said
that even if they didn't have parity let alone the advantage
they don't have to be without spend an RA in every area they just need to be on
the backup candidates that are free to vote
the way they actually want to do it and and that by itself
is is is great and that's why I think he's trying to sort it out front and
reinvigorate the fear
in his in his audience because he needs them to donate more money he needs to
talk to their neighbors because
as much as they said that Bloomberg is just one million air doesn't matter
they are actually scared is it kind of amazing though that Adam all the
different threats that he mentioned that
art actual threats in society today he failed to mention the one thing that
people shouldn't be afraid a
edits mass shootings random shootings in malls like that that happened so
regularly that I have to be honest
on the Young Turks we get kinda tired reporting on it had become so
commonplace
so just interesting that Adam everything that's the one thing he left out
well I'll right before we move on Santa Ana by not
you should be scared that in terms of violence but what are the reasons I
brought up the the rates of violent crime is I want people to
like to get outta that post-9/11 mindset that someone taking your life is how
we're likely to die and that's what you should worry about and that's what you
should prepare for
know you're most likely die heart disease or cancer diabetes are these
other sorts of things that to some extent you can prepare for their diet
an exercise in a getting health insurance and stuff like that like I
know that's not as sexy is like quicksand energy hottest seller
something
but that's what you should do you should wear your seatbelt you should eat fruits
and vegetables that's what will extend your life
yes stop being so stressed to examine relax sleep like ariana huffington
says meditate perhaps labor movement that fulfill your dreams don't die
through little by little piece by piece a
every single day when those trains around for full
good beautiful yeah PSA for you