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by toolz 497 days ago
it's interesting to me how easily you can fact check the statement:

> Everyone has a gun on their person with no licensing requirements. Yet at the NRA conference they ban guns.

yet, you claim that it's the late night TV that divides us, while making sure to double down on your misleading statement.

The NRA doesn't "ban guns at their conferences", they have been banned at small parts of a multi-day conferences e.g. where Trump was speaking because that was a rule established by the secret service and they complied for a small part of the conference.

When the majority of a conference allows guns, it's simply a lie to claim that guns were banned. An unintentional lie, I'm sure, but it seems likely to be the result of you believing some headline or tweet and accepting something wholesale as truth because it fit your narrative. I'm guilty of the same, it happens, but hopefully we can both get better about portraying easily fact checked things as the truth.

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Maybe I’m wrong, but while we’re fact checking, can you provide a source?
I'm very skeptical that you're having a hard time sourcing this information. I have pages from my google search with easily 75% of the results confirming my claim.

Either way, here you go:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/05/27/fac...

> "Restrictions are in place exclusively at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum at the direction of the United States Secret Service," spokesman Lars Dalseide wrote in an email to USA TODAY. He called the claim that the NRA is banning guns at its conference "incorrect."