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>> you mention in your letter to wayne lapierre that gun sales are what his mission is all about, and you say in 2011 ruger stock was trading at $21 a share. now it is at 51. smith and wesson was 3 bucks a share, today it is almost $9 a share. what happened in that period of time to push this share price of these gun makers up like that? >> well, those prices really started going up not so much in 2011 but really once the president was reelected. once president obama was reelected, and the nra of course spent four years reminding membership if obama got reelected in a second term, he would do ...

Minutes on the back of a napkin before i speak. >> the motto was stand and fight. >> the theme of the convention, stand and fight. >> words like battle, war. >> us against them. >> and stand and fight. >> we must remain vigilant. >> fear mongers. >> they don't get it because they don't get america. >> a cultural war the nra would like to wage. >> nothing new with the nra. >> absolutely nothing. >> doubling down on out of touch rhetoric. >> the nra needs to make president obama into a villain. >> president obama is awal. >> we need five more votes. we can do this. >> i think there will be an el...

[ applause ] boston proves it. when brave law enforcement officers did their jobs in that city, so courageously, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns. >> he uses boston as a device to get him to the punch line, good guys with guns stopped terrorists with guns. and he blurs it there because the proverbial nra good guy with a gun is a citizen with a gun, not a police officer. there is no debate in this country. there's no debate in the united states senate about police officers having guns. the nra's cause, its mission, what that convention was about, is making sure everyone else,

Bombers were. but wayne lapierre could still ask his reality challenged audience how many bostonians wished they had a gun two weeks ago. wayne doesn't care about or even know the facts of the boston case, so he probably doesn't know that the first person that the bombers encountered after the bombing had a gun. that was m.i.t. police officer sean collier. he was assassinated by tamerlan tsarnaev. he never had a chance to use his gun. wayne lapierre did not lead a moment of silence for sean collier this weekend at that convention. his death was not worthy of nra attention, even during the bost...

Officer. >> that was the governor asking people to stay in their homes, asking them to. then after he did that, the boston police commissioner stepped up to the very same microphone and said this. >> mayor menino asked me to come here and tell that you the shelter in place recommendation has been extended throughout the city of boston. >> recommendation. it was a recommendation. it was not an order. but this is the lie that the nra will tell forever, that people were ordered to stay in their homes. in fact, in wide stretches of boston, the recommendation wasn't followed, because they considere...