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NRA is losing its firepower
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"The vaunted National Rifle Association and the rest of the gun lobby ... were firing blanks in the recent election."
"Lobby-promoted candidates generally fared poorly. Candidates who support firearms controls that most people consider sensible were not routed, not even where typically hysterical campaigns were run against them."
"At least for this election cycle, the single-issue, guns-are-everything voter ... turned out to be more pussycat than tiger."
"Might the way finally lie clear for the political system to engage pragmatically with the nation's reckless trafficking in firearms and the violence with which, partly as a consequence, Americans have had to put up with as no other people must do?" ... |
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