25. The Marketing of Fear: Selling Guns to America (Ep 3)

Journey Through Time

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4.3 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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How did the NRA manage to gain so much control over the American President and the Supreme Court? Who are the armed citizens masquerading as secret police in America today? Why is an understanding of history so important in the fight to regulate America's guns? Join David Olusoga and Sarah Churchwell as they discuss how The National Rifle Association became such a powerful force in American politics. Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.7	Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm David O'Doshogne. And I'm Sarah Churchwell. And this is our
0:52.1	third episode in a series about the NRA, the National Rifle Association,
0:57.8	and America's unique, strange, disturbing relationship with firearms.
1:02.7	We finished the last episode in the late 1970s at a famous gathering held by the NRA
1:09.0	in which the hardliners, the people who created the NRA of today,
1:13.8	basically take over the organization. Yeah, so this is a kind of internal coup led by a man named
1:19.7	Harlan Carter, and it's this dramatic internal takeover, and they change the mission of the NRA,
1:26.1	which, as we've been saying, until then had
1:28.6	been a group focused on gun safety, which is an amazing thing for anybody who knows the NRA
1:33.4	today to think about, and it's Carter who changes that. He holds that any regulation is basically
1:40.1	a slippery slope to total disarmament. So if you try to say that people need a license
1:46.4	or that they should, you know, that you should have permits or that you should have background
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