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NRA Once Again Embracing Anti-Government Rhetoric April
15, 2010—Fifteen years ago former National Rifle Association
(NRA) member Timothy McVeigh--motivated by his fear and hatred
of the federal government--bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City. Today, the NRA and other members
of the gun lobby are again embracing and validating anti-government
rhetoric according to the new 21-page Violence Policy Center
(VPC) study Lessons
Unlearned: The Gun Lobby and the Siren Song of Anti-Government
Rhetoric.
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NRA's Obama Gun Seizure Propaganda Costs Lives - A VPC Video April
15, 2010—With the election of Barack Obama, the NRA has once
again embraced the paranoid language and anti-government rhetoric
that defined the organization in the early 1990s. Alleged
cop-killer Richard Poplawski is one gun owner who took the
NRA's paranoid language at its word.
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VPC Executive Director on The Huffington Post The Tea Party, Gun Lobby & Anti-Government Rhetoric
April 15, 2010—Fifteen years after former National Rifle Association
(NRA) member Timothy McVeigh--motivated by his fear and hatred
of the federal government--bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City, the NRA and other members of the gun
lobby are once again embracing and validating similar anti-government
rhetoric according to a new study released today by my organization,
the Violence Policy Center (VPC).
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