New report links Trump and NRA to rise of militias behind violent threats......

"The fact of the matter is the commander in chief of the United States, who is supposed to be doing everything in his power to protect the American people, just made them less safe from the debate stage," Nick Suplina, the managing director for law and policy at Everytown, said in an exclusive interview with Salon. 

"The rise of extreme-right violence is thanks in no small part to the fear-mongering and enabling by the NRA, and more recently to Trump in encouraging these groups . . . including his statement to 'stand back, and stand by,'" Suplina continued.

"Gun extremism really is the central organizing principle for much of the extreme right in America — and that's from the NRA, to private militia groups, to even some of the rhetoric we hear from the White House," Justin Wagner, Everytown's senior investigations counsel, added. "And there really are clear historical parallels to the current moment and the period in the 1990s leading up to the Oklahoma City bombing . . . The only difference is we didn't have a president in the '90s who was willing to validate threats from the White House."