A commentary video released by the National Rifle Association two days before the November 27 mass shooting at a Planned Parenthood in Colorado claimed that the “left” uses the term “crazy white gun owner” in order to “segregate society.”

The claim was made in a November 25 video from the NRA News series Defending Our America. The episode, titled “Why Is My Gun Offensive To You?,” claimed “the anti-gun left consistently misrepresents gun owners in America, labeling them as crazy or militant to fit their narrative. [Co-host] Tim [Clemente] believes that this is done intentionally to create a societal rift and alienate supporters of the Second Amendment.”

In the video, Clemente argued, “It's unfortunately how the left labels the NRA, it's how they label, well crazy white gun owner, because it's an easy to way to, again, segregate society, make us this little box of crazy people over here, instead of showing how it's literally every, every aspect of society involves guns.”

Clemente also pushed the argument that guns don't actually hurt people, stating that a firearm “doesn't hurt anybody without intent, malice forethought [sic], and the fact that somebody is pulling a trigger on that gun and pointing it at somebody they shouldn't. That's when people get hurt with guns, and it's actually not the guns they get hurt with, it's the bullets.”

Two days later, on November 27, a white gunman allegedly opened fire with an assault weapon at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood health center, killing a police officer and two civilians and wounding 9 other people.

From the November 25 edition of NRA News' Defending Our America: