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S2: The NRA | EP4: The Big Game

Campus Files

Audacy

Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.67.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A dream job slowly becomes something very different for a former NRA fundraiser, as ethical questions come to light. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:21.5

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0:23.5

It was my dad's favorite organization.

0:32.8

The pickup truck I drove and high school had an in-r-e sticker on the back.

0:38.2

It was the world I knew, it was the world I came from.

0:42.9

I grew up in rural South Carolina, in gun culture.

0:48.8

My uncles and my dad and I would go hunting often.

0:52.4

When guns were always a thing to be respected, they were part of a male initiation right,

1:01.6

where when I'm 12 years old I get my first gun and you go out hunting in this way to be

1:07.0

involved in the Davis clan, to be part of the Davis clan.

1:13.4

Meet Aaron Lee Davis from Cope, South Carolina.

1:19.6

When I come from a very close-knit Southern Baptist family, where we would believe that

1:25.0

you can actually speak with God.

1:27.6

You could hear God.

1:31.3

And I had moved to DC after teaching special led back in 2005.

1:37.3

And I get there and I'm driving down Interstate 66.

1:42.2

And I see the inner rebuilding.

1:45.2

And I feel like some kind of spirit inside spoke to me and it said, this is where you're

1:49.4

going to work.

1:58.0

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

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