The NRA Isn't The Only Opponent Of Gun Control
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A nascent discussion about gun laws has dominated the nation's agenda during the week following the school shootings in Newtown, Conn. But one dominant voice has been missing from the debate thus far. Since the massacre, the National Rifle Association, which is the largest group representing gun rights, has mostly been silent. That is about to change. The NRA is holding a news conference in Washington on Friday morning. In addition, Wayne LaPierre, the group's CEO, is scheduled to be a guest Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press. The group is not expected to come out in favor of any proposal to restrict gun ownership. "That flies in the face of everything they've done for years," says Scott Melzer, author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War.
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Richard Feldman
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| 0 | "There are 15 million self-identified liberals that own guns — that's four times the size of the NRA," he says. ... |
| -0.0717608 | "If Congress goes ahead and repasses the 1994 ban [on assault weapons], they can pat themselves on the back, but they are kidding the American people, and gun owners know it," Feldman says. |
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Scott Melzer
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| 0 | "That flies in the face of everything they've done for years," says Scott Melzer, ... |
| -0.142241 | "That flies in the face of everything they've done for years," says Scott Melzer, author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War. "They would lose a ton of support from their base, which believes if you lose any gun rights, eventually you're going to lose them all." |
| -0.0600806 | "If a Republican votes for any form of gun control, they are inviting the NRA and other groups to run a primary opponent against them, and they're asking to be unseated," says Melzer, ... |
| -0.0228123 | Melzer points out, there have been efforts over the years by various groups to "peel off" ... |
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Andrew Rotherham
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| 0.152535 | "The NRA and its even more radical cousins are pretty much exclusively focused on maintaining access to all kinds of firearms and ammunition," he writes. ... |
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Michael Hammond
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| 0 | "The difference with the NRA is that after Columbine, we took the position that no gun control was appropriate," he says, |
| -0.202718 | "The difference with the NRA is that after Columbine, we took the position that no gun control was appropriate," he says, referring to the mass school shooting in 1999. "After Columbine, the situation looks a lot worse than it does now, in terms of ineffectual gun control legislation, and we were able to stop it then." |
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Wayne LaPierre
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Harry Wilson
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| 0 | "When people say gun lobby, they mean NRA," says Harry Wilson, ... |
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President Obama
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Phil Watson
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| -0.0396208 | "Basically, after the competition in gun rights started, the NRA was forced to rethink how to do things," says Phil Watson, ... |
| 0.113976 | "Basically, after the competition in gun rights started, the NRA was forced to rethink how to do things," says Phil Watson, director of special projects for the Second Amendment Foundation, which has won a number of high-profile legal battles. "The presence of other groups being out there forced the NRA to become more of what they are today." |
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Organization: Guns, Gun Control
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The NRA Isn't The Only Opponent Of Gun Control
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Over the years, the National Rifle Association has become synonymous with protection of gun owners' rights. But other groups at times have taken an even stronger line in defense of Second Amendment protections.
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