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Done With Guns, NRA Has Other Targets

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Posted on Jul 12, 2010
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The Supreme Court has pretty much decided the National Rifle Association’s main issue, but the pressure group, which has managed to make a plaything of Congress, shows no signs of disarming or disbanding. Instead, the gun lobby has set its sights on health care, Elena Kagan and other matters of state.

New York Times:

The N.R.A.’s expanding portfolio is an outgrowth of its success in the courts, Congressional officials and political analysts said. With the Supreme Court ruling last month for the second time since 2008 that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to have a gun, the N.R.A. now finds that its defining battle is a matter of settled law, and it has the resources to expand into other areas.

When the N.R.A. had a narrower range of targets, it relied on a core group of political figures and met with stiffer resistance from vocal gun control advocates in Congress and outside groups. It now has freer rein to leave its mark politically on issues that once seemed out of its reach.

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By Tobysgirl, July 14, 2010 at 6:17 am Link to this comment

Leefeller, I must comment on your comment. A woman was killed here in Maine in her own backyard, shot by a hunter who mistook her white gloves for a white-tail deer. I don’t think she was stupid; I think the people who refused to indict him were stupid. Near us, a man (both of these unfortunates had the last name Wood) was shot and killed on a pond by a goose hunter who apparently mistook him for a goose. Huh? Since then we have a law that says you must identify your target before pulling the trigger. Seems a bit stupid to me to have to have such a law. It has sometimes seemed that hunting in Maine is a way to get rid of family members you’re not fond of. There was a man who killed one brother while hunting, then years later took out another.

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By Brent Cooper, July 13, 2010 at 8:32 pm Link to this comment
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The Senators should examine the June 28 National Review story, and the Harvard law students’ blog, on Kagan’s decision to involve herself in the investigation of the Larry Tribe ghostwriting and plagiarism scandal despite her personal conflict of interest (she was a former Tribe ghostwriter and did a whitewash, imposing no punishment on Tribe).
http://authorskeptics.blogspot.com

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By Leefeller, July 12, 2010 at 9:58 pm Link to this comment

Well if someone is stupid enough to get themselves shot,
are we to suppose the NRA supports health care, from what
the article says?

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