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Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president and perhaps the gun lobby’s most visible figure, has a penchant for invoking fear and paranoia in order to convince people that gun ownership is key to physical safety—despite an increasing number of studies that prove the very opposite.
Ahead of the NRA’s annual convention this weekend, Everytown, the gun-safety coalition backed by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, has released a video to demonstrate just how ridiculous LaPierre’s signature fear-mongering tends to get. The video, which features kids adorably rattling off a handful of the NRA executive’s quotes, is part of the group’s larger effort to expose the lobby’s tactics coined “Stop Crazytown.”
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