From the January 14 edition of MSNBC's All In with Chris Hayes:
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CHRIS HAYES (HOST): Here's what is so striking to me. What the president is really trying to do, I think, in good faith, and whether he is effective or not, is trying to persuade people on these issues, I mean he really is trying to persuade people. [NRA executive vice president] Wayne LaPierre is not in the persuasion business. I remember watching that press conference, that speech after Sandy Hook and thinking, “Oh, this is clearly the end of this guy's political career, and possibly the end of the NRA, this is so bizarre and so offensive in its tone and so sort of disrespectful.” And it wasn't because it wasn't aimed at anyone but basically the hardcore of their membership.
DAVID CORN (MOTHER JONES): Well they've become very good at fearmongering aimed at that hardcore, whether it's ten percent or 20 percent of people who support their general policies. And then again, remember the line for the last seven years has been, and you've reported on this a lot, Chris, that from the NRA is that the president is coming to take your guns. It's not true. He may want gun safety measures, he may want some limitation on gun ownership, but he's not coming to take your guns. And by sticking to that point, I think Wayne LaPierre and the NRA has proven that they are not good faith actors in any sort of policy debate here.
