On yesterday's edition of MSNBC's Hardball, Chris Matthews criticized National Rifle Association executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre's recent comments at the Florida Conservative Political Action Conference suggesting that President Obama was secretly plotting to "erase the Second Amendment." Matthews noted LaPierre's comments were of “another strain of the crazy far right” and said they sounded like “civil war” talk.

MATTHEWS: Well here's something that another strain of the crazy far right. Here's the National Rifle Association's Wayne LaPierre, and I've know this guy a long time, I'm astounded by this new accusation that the President is leading some conspiracy.

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The language, “lie,” “conspiracy,” it's almost like, I don't know Lincoln talking about what was going on in civil war below the Mason Dixon line. I mean, this is civil war talk about a President of the United States.