The NRA has struck a chord with its Clenched Fist of Truth theme, first delivered in Dana Loesch's commentary piece a few weeks back. The series has grown sharper with each passing episode, following a certain former president's advice to hit back twice as hard.
Now Grant Stinchfield delivers another blistering attack in a new video just released. In it, he goes after not only the violent left, but also their supporters and enablers in the mainstream media…particularly the Washington Post. Near the end, he sums up the Post's fair and balanced reporting with this: "You people do more damage to our country with a keyboard than every NRA member combined has ever done with a firearm."
In response, the violent left and the Outrage Industrial Complex has lost their minds over the Clenched Fist of Truth series. Black Lives Matter went to the trouble to release their own counter-attack video, proclaiming that they won't be silenced…and in the very next sentence, demanded the NRA take down their video and surrender their right to be heard.
Hack reporters have called the NRA's videos "dark". Some have even held much-hyped, but poorly-attended marches as they flail for an effective rebuttal. All the while beclowning themselves and exposing their goal of stripping us not only of our guns, but our First Amendment protections as well.
Without a doubt, the violent left's leadership has recognized how effectively those four words – The Clenched Fist of Truth -really are, and that they resonate with everyday Americans in general and gun owners in particular. That's something they simply can't abide.
In the latest video, Stinchfield explains why the NRA has hoisted the torch of truth, straying, as some have complained, from gun-related advocacy.
We talk about more than guns because every freedom is connected. If one is threatened, they all are threatened. And the organized anarchy that you and your politicians and your activists are pushing is destroying our country.
It's why the more than 5 million members of the NRA, along with gun owners and freedom-loving Americans have come together—a clenched fist of truth to protect our freedoms at home. And we do so because Americans like Alex, the Post reporter who did serve, and Dom, have sacrificed so much to defend those freedoms abroad.
It's why we will never stop fighting the violent left on the battlefield of truth.
So here's a suggestion for The Washington Post: Don't worry about how many guns are in our videos. Worry about how many facts are in your articles. Because if gun owners abused our Second Amendment the way you abuse your paper and the First Amendment, our rights would have been taken away long ago. You people do more damage to our country with a keyboard than every NRA member combined has ever done with a firearm.
Your paper's new slogan may read "Democracy Dies in Darkness." It should say, "Journalism Dies at The Washington Post."
Let's face it, few in America trust the mainstream media. After all, each and every day, they sin big and small. And they react poorly to criticism, further pouring gasoline on the brush-fires of freedom in the minds of Americans.
I say this as an Endowment level Life Member of the NRA:
The videos do nothing to further the cause of gun rights and everything to add to the polarization and partisan atmosphere. It turns people off who may have been reachable and paints gun rights as an exclusively rightwing freedom.
Honestly, this looks more like a naked cash grab by an organization that doesn't really have anything to fight against currently. With Republicans in charge at the national level, there's no longer a credible push for gun control that the NRA can use as a boogeyman to drum up donations. So they have to buy into the whole "culture war" nonsense to get the dollars rolling in. Most of the content of the videos barely has anything to do with guns anyway. It's just lamenting the fact that people don't like Trump.
I had taken an extremely liberal friend shooting for the first time and she enjoyed it, particularly the ARs I brought. We started talking gun rights and she was starting to see the truth herself. Then this video comes out and her message to me was "shouldn't they be trying to recruit us?" Indeed the NRA should, but they aren't looking at long term goals of securing the 2nd Amendment (if that's even their real goal anymore), merely the short term goal of stuffing their coffers (which may actually be their overall goal).
The NRA is good for fighting against new anti-gun legislation, but we aren't in an environment that where people are worried about that right now. Instead, now is the time to roll back the laws we already have, which is where the Second Amendment Foundation works best. They'll be getting my future donations going forward. At this point, the NRA might as well start calling itself the National Republican Association. It'd be a more honest branding.
I for one welcome the NRA's involvement. If you think this "culture war""" is nonsense, then you're not paying attention.
Naked cash grab? Where in the hell are they asking for money?
Keep hitting back twice as hard, NRA. These violent leftists are truly evil.
Where are they asking for money? Seriously? Did you watch the video? The last scene is a picture with a link saying "joinNRA.org" which takes you to a site showing membership fees (the "best value" is the 5 year $140 entry incidentally though there are links to donate even more money).
Yes, the culture war is nonsense and is being perpetrated by zealots on both sides. And no, the Dana Loesch video where they intersperce peaceful protestors with incidence of violence isn't helping, it's polarizing. It's also throwing the 1st Amendment under the bus.
If you truly care about the long term survival of the 2nd Amendment then you need to build a coalition of people who support it. Engaging in this dumb partisan culture war garbage nips that possibility in the bud.
Bout time these knee jerk hacks get a taste of their own,!