A World Where The NRA Is Soft On Guns

No Compromise

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🗓️ 8 September 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

One of the same far-right groups behind this spring's anti-quarantine protests also plays a big role in a burgeoning "No Compromise" gun rights movement. Its members see the NRA as too amenable to gun control measures. Two reporters begin their journey to understand the Dorr Brothers and their followers.

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0:00.0	You all see that? Oh, how wonderful! Wonderful!
0:10.3	Defiance at Tierney is so alive and well in the great keystone state.
0:15.0	Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it's late April and thousands of people are protesting outside the state capital.
0:22.0	Coronavirus has been disrupting American life and killing people for almost two months.
0:29.0	The governor here has ordered Pennsylvaniasylvanians to stay home.
0:34.0	Businesses are closed, hospitals are packed, but Americans are stubborn people.
0:40.0	To all the haters who are watching the page right now I hope this display of
0:47.0	American love for freedom triggers all of you. What you're hearing is video posted on Facebook. This guy, Chris Doer, started a
0:58.9	Facebook page called Pennsylvanians Against Ex quarantine, and 60,000 people joined almost instantly.
1:07.0	Folks, this whole Facebook page was started in order to get people to start fighting back against these tyrannical moves that Governor Wolf has been foisting upon the people of Pennsylvania.
1:21.0	And I gotta tell you, I was at the Ohio rally.
1:23.4	Now, Chris Dorr doesn't actually live in Pennsylvania.
1:28.2	He just started a Facebook page there,
1:30.1	and it's not the only one.
1:32.4	He also launched Ohioans against excessive quarantine.
1:36.0	Two of his brothers are in on it too.
1:38.0	They started reopen Minnesota and Wisconsinites against excessive quarantine.
1:43.0	In just a couple weeks, each Facebook group had tens of thousands of followers
1:48.0	spawning state rallies of their very own.
1:51.0	It didn't take long for reporters to start noticing this family. The doors.
1:56.0	Over the last 72 hours we have been attacked by the Washington Post,
2:05.4	Washington Comp. Time magazine.
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