Joy Reid Bristles at Image of 6-Year-Old Aiming Pistol at Camera During NRA Fete: ‘Want to Talk About Grooming?’ (Video)

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of Getty Images’ archive shows many similar photos dating to at least 2007 of children aiming guns at the NRA’s annual convention.In the “Gun Culture” segment that kicked off with video of the “Moral Monday Rally” in Nashville to “protest the deadly gun culture in the U.S.,” Reid broke down recent developments that included another “weekend of bloodshed and a spate of mass shootings since the children of Nashville were buried.”Monday headlines also included the news that an 84-year-old white man has been charged with two felonies after shooting a Black teenager who had gone to the man’s doorstep in Kansas City, Missouri, mistakenly, thinking his siblings were there to be picked up.“This is the feeling of an accelerated gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it,” Reid said. “The fear, the violence — they can feel unstoppable, even all-consuming at times.

It isn’t just because of American’s indifference to gun violence. It’s far more than that. It feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence, a veneration and devotion that has turned America into the most heavily armed civilian population in the word — a virtual shooting gallery. “It’s an agenda shared by the NRA,” Reid said.Watch more of the segment from “The ReidOut” below..@JoyAnnReid leads #TheReidOut tonight with the fact that more young Americans are fighting for their lives as this country's massacre epidemic rages on.