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Samantha Bee Demonstrates How Frighteningly Easy it Is to Purchase a Gun

by AbrahamVillegas Posted on April 12, 2016

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On the latest Full Frontal, Samantha Bee took us on her quest to rent the costume of the National Rifle Association’s esteemed gun safety mascot, Eddie Eagle. But doing so proved to be a surprisingly onerous process—one that required filling out an 18-page application and dealing with the group’s mandatory 20-day waiting period before anyone can get their hands on Eddie’s gear.

Compare that to the relatively simple task of acquiring a gun, whether it be online, at your run-of-the-mill gun shop, or at a gun show in New Mexico:

“Are you a felon?” one gun own seller in New Mexico asked a Full Frontal producer.

“No,” she replied.

“Ok.”

Another gun secured! As the episode goes on, Bee and her team are able to add to their arsenal with frightening ease, all while being repeatedly denied an elusive Eddie Eagle costume.

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Hillary Clinton Says the Best Way to Rein in Lobbyists Is to Shame Them

by xfz0119 Posted on February 7, 2016

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Asked at a town hall meeting at New Hampshire’s Henniker College how to handle the increasing role of moneyed interests in Washington, Hillary Clinton told supporters that lobbyists should be exposed and publicly called out.

“Maybe use social media? Maybe make a concerted effort to really call these people out all the time, get some social pressure on them, get people to know their names,” Clinton suggested, pointing, with obvious relish, to how the New York Daily News has taken to calling the National Rifle Association president Wayne LaPierre “Jihadi Wayne” for his refusal to support blocking individuals on the “no fly list” from getting gun permits.

“We’ve got to try new tactics, we’ve got to go after them and we have got to have tougher laws,” Clinton said.

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Let These Adorable Children Show You Just How Insane the NRA’s Fear-Mongering Is

by SandyWillingham Posted on April 7, 2015

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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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Let These Adorable Children Show You Just How Insane the NRA’s Fear-Mongering Is

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