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The NRA Even Gets the Sandy Hook Body Count Wrong

A TELLING ERROR

A gun lobby spokesman misstates the number of children murdered while parents start to organize. By Michael Daly.

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The National Rifle Association’s leading figure apparently paid so little attention to the particulars of the Sandy Hook School massacre that he misstated the number of murdered children when the organization finally broke its silence on Friday.

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In irony gone ghoulish, Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president and chief executive...

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