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Part Three: Harlon Carter: the Man Who Militarized the Cops and the NRA

Behind the Bastards

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The NRA Is a Huge Part of the Problem With Gun Control

The NRA is pushing this idea of like not just the... Not just that society ought to be militarized, which you get in every kind of argument. But it's this idea that the individual white person should militarize the military. They should be able to protect themselves in order to protect this kind of racial hierarchy. And I wish folks who are supportive of more gun control would more often do is tie in all of this to what has happened to the police. Because they cannot be extricated, right? That's how we get these cops that look indistinguishable from Marines and downtown Volusia.

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