The Rise and Fall of the NRA

It started as a hunting group — but today the NRA is practically unrecognizable from its inception almost 150 years ago.

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00:00From my cold, dead hands!

01:00From my cold, dead hands!

01:04From my cold, dead hands!

01:08From my cold, dead hands!

01:12The Second Amendment is designed to protect the right to keep and bear arms.

01:17The Second Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights,

01:21an almost sacred document in American history.

01:31It is too easy for a young child to get a gun.

01:35And everywhere we look, there are too many lessons in how to use one.

01:39We can do something about that.

01:55I will not let you down. Remember that.

01:58I will not let you down. Remember that.

02:00I will not let you down.

02:23Politicians who sit in their gilded House and Senate seats

02:27are blinded by the NRA telling us nothing could have ever been done to prevent this.

02:30We call BS!

02:41To those politicians supported by the NRA

02:43that allow the continued slaughter of our children and our future,

02:47I say get your resumes ready.

02:57I say get your resumes ready.

03:57I say get your resumes ready.