Huffington Magazine Issue 21 | Page 28

Voices SANJAY SANGHOEE HUFFINGTON 11.04.12 The NRA’s 2012 Anxiety IF THERE IS ONE THING that the National Rifle Association does not do, it is get scared easily. But this October, that may have changed. The lobbying group, financ ed by gun manufacturers to push the agenda of gun owners, has long been an aggressive ILLUSTRATION BY LESLIE HERMAN defender of gun rights and the Second Amendment, even to the point of absurdity, and its prime tactic in this regard has always been to play offense. But it was President Obama who went on the offensive in the second presidential debate, and in a brief and generally ignored exchange hinted that he would like to reinstate the Assault Weapons Sanjay Sanghoee is a banker and author of thriller novels Merger and Portrait of Malice