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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Friday, April 26, 2019

Cold Dead Fingers

Speaking of felons, maybe the NRA will become a casualty of Trumpistan.  We know that Russia reached out to the NRA through Maria Butina, and Trump and the GOP have to make increasingly irrational moves to placate the gun humpers.

But it's unclear that the NRA has any real juice left beyond the GOP base.  Technically, I'm a gun owner (though I don't keep them in my primary residence), and the idea of background checks and limits on certain types of weapons is fine with super-majorities of Americans.

The NRA was the roster taking credit for the dawn in 1994.  Time to puncture the myth of their electoral power.

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