Van Jones: To a Whole Generation of Young People the NRA Is Like the KKK

Van Jones: To Young People, ‘The NRA Is Like the KKK’ (The Washington Free Beacon)

CNN political commentator Van Jones said Thursday that young gun-control advocates see the National Rifle Association as an enemy on the level of the Ku Klux Klan.

Jones said the NRA's role in the debate over gun policy has been destructive overall, arguing that lawmakers are afraid to take steps to solve gun violence because the group may criticize them. Jones admitted, however, that he does not know what steps the government could take to make any progress.

"We haven't had the kind of innovation, experimentation, trying of things—I don't know of any of the things being proposed would make any difference at all yet," Jones said. "But we should know more than we know right now. We should have been able to try things and we haven't been able to."