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...grounds that they could be used for legitimate hunting. This issue works in much the same way as crime: popular fear=Democratic success. And who could possible disagree with banning semi-automatic weapons? Bush tried, and he sounded like an idiot. No doubt, NRA funding will force Bush to continue to try to defend what is popularly indefensible, leaving this issue solely for the Democrats. Even Ronald Reagan supported the Brady Bill, which Bush opposed...
...government major, I have to write papers about politics every week. At The Crimson, I have to edit columns about politics every day. John Locke, OMB, David Souter, ICBM, Richard Pipes, NRA. It gets tiresome. Where's the poetry? Where's the color? Where's the innovation...
THROUGH THE NRA's eyes, the Second Amendment translates into the right of civilians to acquire Uzis and AK-47s, which can release 30 rounds within seconds and have no legitimate hunting purpose whatsoever. The result has been case upon case inwhich the wrath of a lunatic has led to the death of scores of innocent civilians, many of whom would have been alive today if their assailants had been limited to an ordinary revolver...
...NRA answer to the above "problem" is the familiar line that "guns don't kill people--people kill people." Yeah, right. The inescapable reality of violent incidents is that, with every increase in the ferocity of the assailant's weapon, from knife to revolver to semiautomatic weapon, the death toll rises exponentially...
...consequence of the NRA's lobbying power has been appalling carnage in our streets. Guns have claimed more than 30,000 lives a year for the past several years, and the figures are rising. Think of this in terms of the apocalyptic visions of the Gulf War, the predictions that 20,000 American lives would be lost, and one is made aware of the unconscionable oversight of urban death taking place every day as we refuse to confront this problem...