{"id":31588,"date":"2018-12-09T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-09T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=31588"},"modified":"2019-01-02T21:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T01:22:05","slug":"shooting-down-tom-arnolds-allegation-against-the-nra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2018\/12\/09\/shooting-down-tom-arnolds-allegation-against-the-nra\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting Down Tom Arnold\u2019s Allegation Against the NRA"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of a Secret Service investigation<\/a>\u00a0prompted by his tweet that challenged President Donald Trump to a fight, D-list celebrity Tom Arnold is now trying to grab headlines by making obviously false allegations about the National Rifle Association. Project 21<\/a>\u00a0was locked and loaded with the truth to set the record straight.<\/p>\n

The star of The Stupids<\/a>, The Jerk Theory<\/a>\u00a0and Dumbbells<\/a>\u00a0said in a recent tweet directed at NRA spokesman Dana Loesch that \u201cI think there are 5 black NRA members.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Horace<\/p>\n

On the Fox News Channel program \u201cThe Ingraham Angle,\u201d Project 21 Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a>\u00a0explained:<\/p>\n

Tom Arnold lives in a little bubble. And, in that special little bubble, there is no possibility of any knowledge of experience that is different from that.<\/p>\n

If I lived in the darkest blue parts of the country, I probably too would have this attitude. I grew up in Texas, and it was not unusual \u2013 it was actually the opposite. It would be thought of as unusual if people I knew \u2013 black, white or brown \u2013 weren\u2019t interested in firearms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While liberal commentator Jonathan Harris suggested that blacks are not the NRA\u2019s \u201ctarget demo,\u201d Horace pointed out that the NRA is a civil rights organization and has a history of working with the black community to protect their rights, their property and their freedom.<\/p>\n

\u201cI joined the NRA at one point,\u201d Horace acknowledged. \u201cI know many people who have. And in fact, in our history as black Americans, the NRA \u2013 as a civil rights organization \u2013 has played critical roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Harris noted that blacks have been denied the ability to buy guns for their self-defense in the past, Horace noted those instances were \u201csomething that the NRA fought against<\/a>.\u201d He also noted that Robert F. Williams formed an all-black NRA chapter<\/a>\u00a0during the civil rights movement to address Ku Klux Klan violence.<\/p>\n