NRA

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2021
  

  How Much is the NRA to Blame for the Gun Culture?

  Two new books help to shed light on how the NRA, partisan politicians, and the gun industry "took a political base of hunters and nurtured a new, expanded audience of gun guys," and how they made Americans live in their world. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11/9/2021
  

  Secret NRA Tapes in Wake of Columbine Show Decision to Attack Critics for "Politicizing" Mass Shootings

  The NRA faced a crossroads after the Columbine shootings in 1999. They chose a scorched-earth posture that has guided their response to every mass shooting incident since, documented in recordings of high-level strategy meetings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/12/19
  

  When Texas was the national leader in gun control

  by Brennan Gardner Rivas

  How the land of gunslinger mythology regulated weapons to reduce violence

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• August 11, 2019
  

  Can the NRA Survive its Current Crisis?

  by Robert J. Spitzer

  The NRA is facing a serious crisis. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/26/19
  

  The danger of denying black Americans political rights

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Without access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-30-18
  

  After the Supreme Court blow, unions should look to a new model: the NRA

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Historic battles between business and ordinary people have played out in America’s top court before. Now, it is happening again.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  3/28/18
  

  Was the NRA Founded to Protect Black People from the Ku Klux Klan?

  Revisionist accounts of the origin of the National Rifle Association say it was formed to help freed slaves defend themselves against racist attacks after the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-27-18
  

  Gun-control advocates believe their activism will mirror the fight for gay marriage. They’re wrong.

  by James Kirchick

  The better comparison is Prohibition — and we all know how that turned out.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-22-18
  

  America Passed Gun Control in 1968. Can It Happen Again?

  by Jason Sokol

  The King and Kennedy assassinations spurred the passage of the Gun Control Act.

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• 3-14-18
  

  We Shouldn’t Be Surprised that Young People Are Leading the Charge for Gun Control

  by Bill Heiden

  Most importantly, history shows that this kind of street action works.

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• SOURCE: guns.com
  3-13-18
  

  Patrick J. Charles, author of a new book on guns, defends militia-centric understanding of Second Amendment

  “There’s been people on both sides who’ve misappropriated historical evidence over time or failed to fully contextualize it.”

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-12-18
  

  Jonathan Zimmerman says students should go on strike to win gun control

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  West Virginia teachers won by striking. There’s a lesson in that.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-5-18
  

  7 Times in History When Students Turned to Activism

  History is full of movements led by students — albeit usually in college, not high school. Some were successful and others brutally crushed, but even the latter still resonate.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-2-18
  

  Before Trump’s wild shifts on the NRA, Ronald Reagan took on the gun lobby

  On May 3, 1994, Ronald Reagan and two other former presidents sent a letter to House members, urging them to support a controversial ban on lethal, military-style assault weapons.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  3-2-18
  

  Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

  by Lawrence Glickman

  The ethical point boycotters have tried to raise from that time to our own is that, in an interconnected national and international market economy, there are no innocent bystanders.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  2-25-18
  

  Even the Wild West Embraced Gun Control

  by Gil Troy

  The Wild West wasn't so wild that it—and the Stormy South—couldn’t include gun control.

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• 3/4/18
  

  This Is How You Get Gun Control

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  It’s what happened after several headline-making shootings captured public attention a century ago.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-28-18
  

  Gun-rights advocates are right that violent films encourage school shootings. They’re wrong about how.

  by Matthew Christopher Hulbert

  The problem isn't the violence — it's the celebration of gun culture.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-27-18
  

  A gunmaker once tried to reform itself. The NRA nearly destroyed it.

  In 2001, a little more than a year after cutting a gun-control deal with the US government, the British conglomerate that owned Smith & Wesson sold it at a dramatic loss.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-24-18
  

  The NRA Wasn’t Always A Front For Gun Makers

  by Neil J. Young

  The NRA operated mostly as a sporting club and hunting association for its first 100 years.