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BONUS: A World Where The NRA Is Soft On Guns

Consider This from NPR

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🗓️ 13 June 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

About two months after the coronavirus began spreading in the United States, groups of Americans began to protest the quarantine lockdown measures in their states. At some of these anti-lockdown rallies reporters Lisa Hagen of WABE and Chris Haxel of KCUR discovered they weren't the spontaneous grassroots uprisings they purported to be. Rather, they were being organized by a group of three brothers: Aaron, Ben and Chris Dorr.

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0:00.0

Hey, consider this listeners, it's Audie Cornish and we've got a great weekend lesson for you.

0:04.1

And this comes from our colleagues at MPR's No Compromise podcast, which this past week was

0:09.5

awarded the Pulitzer Prize for audio reporting. Very big deal and very well deserved.

0:15.2

The show is about three brothers, a group of gun rights activists, who make the NRA seem

0:21.0

soft in comparison. And it's about how they use social media to spread their message.

0:26.3

The whole series is out now, so after you finish this episode, you can listen to the rest.

0:30.8

Host Chris Haxel and Lisa Hagen take it from here.

0:43.6

I'll see that. Oh, how wonderful.

0:48.0

Wonderful defiance at tyranny is so alive and well in the great Keystone state.

0:52.9

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It's late April and thousands of people are protesting outside the state

1:00.0

capital. Coronavirus has been disrupting American life and killing people for almost two months.

1:08.8

The governor here has ordered Pennsylvanians to stay home. Businesses are closed, hospitals are packed,

1:15.2

but Americans are stubborn people. To all the haters who are watching the page right now,

1:21.8

I hope this display of American love for freedom triggers all of you.

1:31.6

What you're hearing is video posted on Facebook. This guy, Chris Doerr, started a Facebook page

1:38.1

called Pennsylvanians against excessive quarantine and 60,000 people joined almost instantly.

1:48.0

Folks, this whole Facebook page was started in order to get people to start fighting back against

1:53.0

these tyrannical moves that Governor Wolfe has been voicing upon the people of Pennsylvania.

1:59.2

And I got to tell you, I was at the Ohio Railway. Now, Chris Doerr doesn't actually live in Pennsylvania.

2:06.4

He just started a Facebook page there and it's not the only one. He also launched Ohioans

2:12.8

against excessive quarantine. Two of his brothers are in on it too. They started re-open Minnesota

2:18.8

and was constantly against excessive quarantine. In just a couple weeks, each Facebook group had

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