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Reagan's outspoken pro-handgun stance and his support of the NRA seem an ironic turning of the other cheek, but the constitutional freedoms he invokes have hit home with voters, spelling major setbacks for advocates of gun control. If it was bleak for these activists after the 1980 conservative landslide, is it defeat after 1984's instant replay? Perhaps not, for two reasons. First, Reagan's short "coattails" did not produce a conservative sweep in the congressional races. Secondly, the repercussions of the victory have jolted handgun control activists into the daring shift toward local politics, a change that...
...Guns, and Guts Made US Great!," and gun-haters obscures the issue. The real opposition is, on one side, 10,000 handgun-related civilian deaths in 1983, and on the other side, the desire of a large number of Americans to own guns--not just the people in the NRA. We are talking on the order of a quarter of a billion guns, with two sold every 24 seconds. The problem is either with an idiosyncrasy of American values that makes us feel we must own a gun to be secure, or an overwhelming availability of guns (as the Coalition...
...setbacks to handgun control activists that includes a series of stymied gun control bills introduced during the seventies by legislators such as Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), Reagan's election in 1980, and the resounding defeat of California's handgun-restricting Proposition 15 in 1982. The NRA has shot down the activists on all fronts. Seemingly they have nowhere to turn...
This prosperity would not come the old Republican way, by letting the free market create wealth that might then trickle down to the lower classes. It would come instead by using Government to create jobs. Through a host of alphabet agencies-the NRA, the CCC, the WPA-the New Deal pumped money into the economy, artificially creating demand for goods and services. It took World War II to really spur production and cure the Depression, but by then F.D.R. had won a victory of the spirit. His programs attacked not only poverty but helplessness. The poor and dispossessed began...
...Trustees of Morton Grove faced the same kind of political intimidation and, despite NRA-backed opposition, all were re-elected by wide margins. So if Morton Grove can stand up to the NRA and win, why can't the Congress of the United States...