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PHILADELPHIA: Who better to lead the NRA out of the wilderness than Moses? After Charlton Heston was elected President of the gun lobby Monday, with almost universal acclaim from its national convention, some members seemed to think they'd cast the Biblical leader himself. "We have been demonized by the media," said executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre, "and this is a way to say hey, Moses is on our side...
Smiling broadly as he recalls working with Jim Brady and representative Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to "beat the NRA" with historic gun control legislation, Rowe says he never forgets his father's conviction that "the highest calling is public service...
...Those are the figures. Here?s the spin. The NRA says that any report looking at the effect of ?guns and guns only? is ?worthless as a study of violence.? The medical community calls it an epidemic. ?If the United States had eight times the rate of disease than other rich nations, the people would be up in arms,? said Dr. Rebecca Peters of Johns Hopkins University. ?This would be a public health emergency.? Whether the guns or the people pulling the trigger are responsible, one thing is clear: We?ve got a whole lot of killing going...
...Naturally, the NRA interprets this ban on such sports-utility Uzis as a "war on America's law-abiding gun owners." Not that Clinton's order came as much of a surprise: A temporary ban on "cosmetically modified" assault weapons was first instigated last November, pending Treasury Department review. And that in itself was little more than an extension of the 1994 Crime Bill ban, from which Clinton and Gore have gotten a lot of mileage. But it's not all bad news for semiautomatic addicts -- the .308-caliber Vepr, a modified AK-47, made it through review to remain...
Roosevelt promised--and delivered--"action and action now." His New Deal was an amalgam of "alphabet" agencies (AAA, NRA, WPA, SEC, FDIC, NLRB) and work-relief projects that set the jobless to work building dams, bridges, highways and airports. Congress enacted such now hallowed (but then seemingly radical) reforms as Social Security, unemployment compensation and federal insurance of bank deposits...