Frank Langfitt

And Aishi, it's not just liberal gun groups who are saying this.

Even traditional Second Amendment groups say they see more liberals seeking gun training out of fear.

This is Taylor Rhodes.

He works for the National Association for Gun Rights.

Well, I reached out to the White House, of course, and spokeswoman Abigail Jackson, she dismissed this reporting and she called it disingenuous.

And I'd like to read you a part of the statement that she sent me.

She says, quote, this type of biased and left-wing coverage is why NPR no longer receives taxpayer money.

That's something we can all celebrate.

And President Trump has weighed in on the issue of political violence in America.

He blames it on what he calls the radical left.

Trump, of course, he cited his near assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Though investigators still haven't established a clear motive for that shooting.

And the president has also cited, of course, the killing of Charlie Kirk, a political activist who, as everyone remembers, was assassinated at a university in Utah.

Here's what the president said from the Oval Office just after that happened.

It's a long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year.

in the most hateful and despicable way possible.

For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals.

Yes, some liberal gun owners that I talked to, they made this exact point.

From their perspective, it's the president who demonizes others, whether it's undocumented immigrants.

They're poisoning the blood of our country.