Dana Loesch: It’s Always the People Who Hate Guns Who Want You To Die by a Gun

‘He doubled down on it and encouraged other threats’

KELLY: “And now the story of a disturbing video that literally targets Dana Loesch, a frequent guest on The Kelly File and the author of the book, ‘Hands Off My Gun.’ She's an outspoken Second Amendment defender who recently created an NRA video, asking for the freedom to defend her family.”
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LOESCH: “I'm a mom. And just like millions of other women, that's why I own guns. We're responsible. We're law-abiding. And we're everything that makes America strong. I'm the National Rifle Association of America. And I'm freedom's safest place.”
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KELLY: “Well, an anti-gun advocate who goes by the Twitter handle, Pinhead, then took that NRA video and ended -- edited the ending. We're only going to show this to you one time and we want to share of you our warning that the following video is very graphic, Here it is.”
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LOESCH: “I'm a mom. And just like millions of other women, that's why I own guns. We're responsible. We're law-abiding. And we're everything that makes America strong. I'm the National Rifle Association of America. And I'm freedom's safest place.”
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KELLY: “Joining me now, Dana Loesch, host of ‘Dana,’ on TheBlaze TV. Dana, good to see you.”
LOESCH: “Hi, Megyn.”
KELLY: “That is so disturbing. That -- tell us how you found that about that?”
LOESCH: “I was actually sitting on my son's baseball game, Sunday afternoon and hit a double-hitter. And by -- my son starts blowing up. I was getting all of these text messages from friends and they said, ‘You really need to look at Twitter right now. There's just video that's going around and it's really creepy.’ So I thought, all right. So I opened my Twitter app and I looked and I saw retweeted into my mentions a tons of times. And this guy, this is an individual who is harassed me for really long time. You know, I just, you know I try not to engage as much as possible. And I had just muted him. But other people where we tweeting it into my mentions which is how I saw it.”
KELLY: “You can't ignore this.”
LOESCH: “Yeah.”
KELLY: “I mean you know who he is. He goes by Pinhead which -- you know, the app name, of course. But, you know who he is. His name is Tom -- what is his last name?”
LOESCH: “Apple bock” 
KELLY: “Yeah. So Tom and -- so he's been your sin in his mind is that you're a Second Amendment supporter?”
LOESCH: “Yes, I'm a woman and I'm a Second Amendment supporter. Apparently, that's my sin because I, you know, I've been -- have been forbid that people, men or women have the right to defend themselves. And the thing that really got me about this, Megyn, and normally -- because I've let a lot of things slide before. I mean, I've dealt with, you know a lot, as you have, as well. And the thing that got me with this is that my oldest son, you know, he's teenager now. And he's online. And he has a Facebook account and has, you know, he's on Instagram. And as much as I police has usage of the Internet, I can't stop him from seeing everything and I couldn't stop him from seeing this and I couldn't stop his friend from showing it to him. And he was able to see it before we were able to say anything to him.”
KELLY: “This is just wrong. The irony, I mean the irony is so rich of this of an anti-gun advocate putting a gun into a video.”
LOESCH: “Right.”
KELLY: “And blowing a mother's head off to try to make his point. I mean, this is what's so disheartening, discouraging about the stage of debate in this country today, where we can't disagree. With that -- I mean, that ad, you think it's hateful in it? You stood up for the rights in which you believe. This guy gets hateful.”
LOESCH: “Right.”
KELLY: “In his response to your rights.”
LOESCH: “Yes, and that is the biggest irony. And I'm so glad that you mentioned that because it's always the people who hate guns and they don't want anyone else to be able to lawfully posses them that want you to die by a gun. You know what I mean? Wanting to be a law-abiding Second Amendment practitioner does not magically put a gun into the hand of anyone who does not want one. It does not magically armed criminals either, and that is the disconnect. And it is, it's incredibly disturbing, the amount of harassment. People receive just for expressing a different opinion. And, you know, I don't -- personally, I don't believe that this is satire, but I also don't believe in hate speech, either. I just think that the level of discourse in this country is frightening. And I did go to the FBI, because I do take things like this quiet seriously, simply because the behavior from this one individual, it increased in intensity and frequency. And I thought that's -- I don't want to mess with this. So for just, you know, legal purposes and my own safety, I wanted to go ahead and make sure that I have a record of having reached out and you know, talked to someone about this. So I did reach out to the FBI and they are assessing the situation.”
 

 

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