Smyth will discuss lessons from the school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary School and in Parkland, Florida at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High Smyth has also written about the NRA in The Village Voice, Stars and Stripes, the New York Daily News, The Washington Post, and The Progressive, and has been interviewed about the NRA on NPR, the BBC, MSNBC, and others. He is a former arms trafficking investigator for Human Rights Watch breaking the role of France in arming Rwanda before the 1994 genocide.Īfter the Newtown, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Smyth revealed in Mother Jones that an NRA board member was living near the school and that the CEO of the firm that made the weapon used in the killings had served under her on the NRA Nominating Committee. Watch on Facebook: /theprogressivemagazine or YouTube: /theprogressive Sunday February 14, 2021, 7:00-8:30pm CST.įrank Smyth is an independent, award-winning investigative journalist, and the author of The NRA: The Unauthorized History released by Flatiron Books in 2020. Press release: The Progressive magazine and A Room of One’s Own bookstore invite you to a Virtual Book Event with Frank Smyth and his book: The NRA: The Unauthorized History Journalist Frank Smyth takes a look at the secretive organization in the 2020 book The NRA: The Unauthorized History, and he will discuss the book during a livestream conversation with Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive. However, the NRA's focus wasn't always what they now push, and it doesn't necessarily want you to remember that. Are there too many guns, or not enough? How did we get here? Part of the answer is political action by the National Rifle Association. would disagree the country has a problem with guns, but there are diametrically opposing viewpoints on the issue. Award-winning investigative journalist Frank Smyth is the author of "The NRA: The Unauthorized History" (Flatiron Books, 2020).įew in the U.S.
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