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Glenn Beck FULL 2013 NRA Convention Speech on May 4, 2013 - Stand and Fight Rally - Texas

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Published on May 5, 2013

May 4, 2013 - Radio host Glenn Beck speaks at the NRA Stand and Fight Rally, an event of the 2013 NRA Annual Meetings in Houston, Texas. In his highly-anticipated keynote speech, Beck conveys his message through stories often ignored by the mainstream media of law-abiding citizens defending themselves with firearms, and the cold, hard facts about gun control that have been rejected by the political elites. "So what is this gun, good or evil? It is nothing! A gun is only a reflection of the people that use it," he declares. Beck didn't discriminate politically as he blasted Democrats and Republicans for promoting and implementing a progressive ideology that is "antithetical" to our Constitutional Republic. Unfortunately, he explained, the problem is everywhere — in media, churches and educational systems across the country. He jabbed a number of celebrities and politicians for anti-gun hypocrisy, including Michael Moore, Jim Carrey and, of course, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Beck said there is a "tough journey ahead" for gun owners in America, proclaiming that "this weekend, I believe, is one of the most important moments in American history and the defining moment for the NRA."

He explained that big government progressives actually believe they can make better decisions for Americans than they can make themselves. "I will not comply!" Beck said emphatically, drawing the first of several standing ovations during his speech.

But the four things Americans need to know for the battle ahead, according to Beck, are: "What we fight, who we fight, why we fight, and how we fight." Beck also told some of the many, many stories TheBlaze has covered about good, law-abiding people with firearms defending themselves, their families and property.

On April 4, just one month ago in Portland, Oregon, a woman was attacked around 10 p.m. after she had gotten out of her car, Beck told a captivated audience. A man approached her from behind and dragged her backwards by her ponytail. We know what would have happened next, but this woman had a gun. She pointed it at the man and "he ran like a little girl," he said.

He went on to tell the story of a elderly woman in Youngstown, Ohio, who was strapped to an oxygen tank at her home when someone broke the glass on her front door and entered. She retrieved her revolver and warned him to leave, and when he didn't, she shot him and held him for police.

Additionally, in Texas recently, attackers sexually assaulted a mother and her daughter, Beck said. The woman's son was also tied up but managed to get free and grab a handgun, sending the two men fleeing from the home.

"It happens every day. Every day," Beck said, "and it seems to me that we are the only major media outlet in the country with the guts to report it. Why? Because the truth has no agenda...guns save lives!"

He went on: "They're counting on you to be quiet. For our soldiers to come home, to sit down and to be quiet. Not to have the courage like so many soldiers to come home and tell the truth like Marcus Luttrell and Chris Kyle—or their sweet dear wives who pick up the torch and carry on."

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Gregory Korte, USA TODAY8:03 a.m. EDT May 6, 2013


NRA President David Keene, left, says he'll hand the baton to James Porter when the NRA elects a new president Monday. The two hugged during the NRA Annual Meeting of Members Saturday in Houston.(Photo: Johnny Hanson, Houston Chronicle, via AP)
Story Highlights

• Incoming president says NRA growth is due to sense of outrage
• Organization membership is at a record 5 million
• NRA vows to fight any compromise on gun-control legislation

HOUSTON — The board of the National Rifle Association will elect as its president Monday a hard-line culture warrior who has worked for decades to make the NRA a more aggressive political force.
The election of James Porter — ensured after the endorsement of outgoing President David Keene last week — is one of many defiant signals to come out of the NRA's annual meeting in Houston over the weekend. The organization vowed to continue to fight any compromise on gun-control legislation in Congress.
"Revenge is what's motivating the president's unrelenting attacks on gun owners today," Porter told the group's meeting Saturday amid news that the NRA's membership had grown to a record 5 million.
"Millions of Americans are becoming first-time gun owners," Porter said. "The media calls it fear. That's not it. It's a sense of natural outrage that's been building for quite some time."
Porter, 64, a lawyer from Birmingham, Ala., who defends gun manufacturers, has been building that outrage his whole life. His father, Irvine C. Porter, was president of the NRA in 1959 — when the son says the NRA was "a glorified shooting society." At a breakfast Friday, Porter told grass-roots organizers that they are on the front line of a "culture war."
"He seems to come out of a mold that's much closer to the base than David Keene," said Josh Horwitz of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. Whereas Keene was a "steady hand" for the NRA amid controversy, Porter is "a complete wild card," Horwitz said. "The world's changing around them, and they're hunkering down."
The weekend also featured speeches from politicians such as Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas — who challenged Vice President Biden to a debate on gun violence — and the NRA's crowd-pleasing executive vice president, Wayne LaPierre.
"We will never surrender our guns. Never," LaPierre said. "The media and the political elites can lie about us and demonize us all they want, but that won't stop us."
Observers said the tone of the convention wasn't surprising, given the debate over universal background checks in Congress, which the NRA has fought bitterly. "The rhetoric has been ramped up," said Josh Sugarmann of the Violence Policy Center. "They've doubled down on their absolutism."
As more than 70,000 people visited the weekend event — primarily for the gun trade exhibits on the floor of the Houston convention center — about 70 protesters held vigil across the street, reading the names of 3,863 victims of gun violence since the shooting in Newtown, Conn., on Dec. 14. The last name on the list: Carlos Serrano, 48, shot in a robbery while going to work Friday 6 miles from the convention.

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