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...Eliot House senior slides into a booth in the Wursthaus restaurant in Harvard Square, fingers the bill of his dark cap with "NRA life Member" in gold print, and flips open the menu...
...companion might be expecting a conservative tirade from the former president of the Harvard Republican Club and a guardian of Peninsula, a conservative campus magazine. Instead, Campbell, who spent three years rowing crew, jokes about his growing waistline. The NRA cap? He likes to shock Harvard liberals with the cap and by "whistling `Dixie' in the Yard." And when he meets someone open-minded, the cap can prompt a conversation that bridges ideological divides...
...NRA's pernicious influence extends beyond the Federal government into our nation's cities. The largely rural NRA has stood against local governments' attempts to regulate guns within urban crime areas. The NRA's mantra that "guns don't kill people, people do" rings hollow before the sound of gunfire and death on urban streets...
Congress's first move should be to cut off the two million dollars that funds "gun education" every year through the NRA. Tougher controls on handguns and assault weapons can be passed, if public support can be sufficiently demonstrated. We need to show Congressional representatives that, by voting against gun control under NRA pressure, they're voting against two-thirds of the nation's population...
...future, we'd like to see candidates for office boasting of their lack of NRA funds. Those who do take the NRA's money simply perpetuate the culture of hatred and alienation...