By now you've likely seen this woeful bit of baseless would-be rabble-rousing from the NRA, an organization that called for more guns in schools following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook, and one that has yet to make a statement about Philando Castile.

Since the advertisement resurfaced a few days ago, writers have been quick to point out its many hypocrisies, including its attack on First Amendment rights, its hyper-violent and questionable use of verbs ("they use their media to assassinate real news"), and its divisive "us" vs "them" rhetoric.

Just to pick up on that last bit, the commercial also plays off the fear trembling in the hearts of so many white, rural Americans: the city.

The video shows image after image after image after image of cities, making double sure to flash a snapshot of Chicago when mentioning Obama, "their ex-president." (Confidential to Blaze talk show host, Dana Loesh, the spokesperson in the video: he was your president, too.)

The city is where they brainwash kids to murder cops with protest signs, the ad seems to say. A place where people walk so quickly they turn into ghosts, where people burn American flags, and worse: where people cause long lines to form at airports.

This attack on cities is an attack on the people who live in cities, which is to say people who voted for Hillary Clinton, people of color, and, as my colleague Charles Mudede is always so quick to point out, the people who actually die from the terrorist attacks conservatives are so worried about.

This fear tactic is a very old one, meant to keep people living in dying towns, clinging to guns the NRA is trying to sell them. There, they will be more likely to kill themselves or their children with a gun than use it to defend themselves from an intruder. It's sad.

Also true: