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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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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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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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