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
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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