During the inaugural episode of his Showtime series Who Is America? comedian Sacha Baron Cohen got gun activists and sitting members of Congress to endorse a hypothetical program to arm preschoolers to ward off school shootings. While one might imagine Cohen would have had to interview fringe and obscure activists to secure endorsements for such a program, which he said would arm children as young as 3, the two gun group leaders interviewed both wield significant influence over how gun laws are shaped in the United States. Posing as an Israeli anti-terror expert, Cohen conducted sit-down interviews in which he touted his program with Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL) president Philip Van Cleave, Gun Owners of America (GOA) executive director emeritus Larry Pratt, and several members of Congress. During his interview, Van Cleave called gun training for children as young as 3 “a good idea” and mused that children could be “very effective soldiers” because they haven’t developed a “conscience, where you feel guilty about doing something wrong.” He also bragged that his group killed a bill in the Virginia legislature that would have restricted access to guns for children between the ages of 4 and 12.
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