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Interview With NRA President David Keene

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The head of the gun-rights organization defends assault weapons and says people shouldn’t overreact after Newtown.

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Reviews of the National Rifle Association’s post–Sandy Hook press conference are still rolling in, but much of the initial reaction has amounted to the sort of brutal pan that would have closed a Broadway show on opening night.

“Insane paranoia” was how Gawker summed

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