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Prominent Gun Activist Calls Bundy Standoff A "Turning Point In Modern America"
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Larry Pratt, the executive director of Gun Owners of America, praised lawless Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's actions in a sparsely attended speech outside the National Rifle Association's annual meeting.
"I think that this is a very positive development that came out of the confrontation out on that ranch," said Pratt, who regularly sits for credulous interviews with mainstream media outlets. "And hopefully we will look back on what happened there as a turning point in modern American history. The American people are saying 'Enough, no farther.'"
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But on April 26 Pratt praised the rancher's standoff with the Bureau of Land Management, which he described as "an illegitimate entity" whose employees "shouldn't have guns, not as government officials." He linked the event to the surge in sheriffs who have said they will refuse to enforce expanded federal or state gun laws.
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But Pratt also has a long record of anti-government extremism; he was forced out of his position as co-chair of Pat Buchanan's 1996 presidential run following the "disclosure that he had spoken at rallies held by leaders of the white supremacist and militia movements," as the Times reported at the time. More recently, he has suggested that the shooting at the Aurora, CO, movie theater may have been staged and flirted with the claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a government "programmed event" designed to build support for stronger gun laws.
"I think that this is a very positive development that came out of the confrontation out on that ranch," said Pratt, who regularly sits for credulous interviews with mainstream media outlets. "And hopefully we will look back on what happened there as a turning point in modern American history. The American people are saying 'Enough, no farther.'"
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But on April 26 Pratt praised the rancher's standoff with the Bureau of Land Management, which he described as "an illegitimate entity" whose employees "shouldn't have guns, not as government officials." He linked the event to the surge in sheriffs who have said they will refuse to enforce expanded federal or state gun laws.
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But Pratt also has a long record of anti-government extremism; he was forced out of his position as co-chair of Pat Buchanan's 1996 presidential run following the "disclosure that he had spoken at rallies held by leaders of the white supremacist and militia movements," as the Times reported at the time. More recently, he has suggested that the shooting at the Aurora, CO, movie theater may have been staged and flirted with the claim that the Sandy Hook shooting was a government "programmed event" designed to build support for stronger gun laws.
Along with the seditious, criminal, and immoral asswipes of the NRA, these GOA extremists are the kind of sick individuals who speak for the right-wing gun lobby in this country. Second Amendment absolutists on DU frequently brag about how pro-RKBA protests have outnumbered those of gun control organizations by "100 to 1." They conveniently leave out the part about how these "pro-RKBA protesters" are made up of mainly right-wing militia groups and NRA supporters who are then idolized on a Democratic discussion board. They attempt to paint the blatant intimidation of the Moms Demand Action group by a group of radical gun carriers as merely a "photo op."
Please support a gun control organization of your choice today in any way that you can. These rabid, venomous, right-wing death merchants must be countered by any means possible, but I believe that we thinking, Liberal Americans have the numbers to do it politically. The Founders did not intend for the Second Amendment to give license to people like Wayne LaPierre and Larry Pratt to spread armed hate, violence, and sedition across this country.
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