Politics

The NRA: From Awful to Even Worse

Michelle Cottle describes the bizarre scene at the NRA’s Washington press conference.

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Give the NRA this: those guys know how to work the media and public like a call girl at a political convention.

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Following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary last week, the pro-gun lobbying behemoth signaled that it, too, felt—as so many people have suggested—that “this time was different.”

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