As part of a new campaign promoting its agenda, the National Rifle Association published a bunch of videos featuring people who like guns making statements against the liberal elites, Hollywood celebrities and feckless political class that would supposedly pry their weapons away from them.
The video above, though, is directed at a different target: Iran.
It's a particularly spectacular entry featuring a gray-bearded man in a wide-brimmed hat telling the "ayatollahs of Iran" to "listen up." Here's the opening conceit: "You might have met our fresh-faced flower child president and his weak-kneed, Ivy League friends. But you haven't met America."
The narrator, your weak-kneed Ivy League blogger discovered through Google, is Charlie Daniels, a popular country musician who sure is good at spinning some folksy yarns. He goes on to tell Iran what "America" really is:
You haven't met the heartland, or the people who will defend this nation with their bloody, calloused, bare hands, if that's what it takes. You haven't met the steelworkers and the hard-rock miners, or the swamp folks in Cajun country who can wrestle a full-grown gator out of the water.
You haven't met the farmers, the cowboys, the loggers and the truck drivers. You don't know the mountain men who live off the land, or the brave cops who fight the good fight in the urban war zones.