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cans — such as banning assault
weapons and high-capacity magazines and restricting the sale of
unlimited amounts of ammunition
— and leave the core of the “right
to bear arms” intact so that citizens can continue to protect their
homes and families. This will net
him the valuable moral support
of the wider public and give him a
true mandate to restore sanity in
our society.
The reality is that after the
recent string of massacres, starting in Colorado, America is getting extremely tired of senseless
shootings, and even more tired
of the reckless attitude of gun
rights advocates who choose to
ignore the gun violence sweeping our nation. Not only is the
NRA’s campaign to glorify guns
irresponsible, its opposition to
even common-sense gun laws
like background checks is blatantly unpatriotic and dangerous. It gets away with this sort
of recklessness because of the
vast sums of money at its disposal, which it can use for misinformation campaigns and lobbying — and because of the lack
of political will in Washington to
tackle gun control.
But I view Obama as the type of
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man who does not intimidate easily and who, once he decides to do
so, could really give the NRA a run
for its money. Anyone who doubts
this should remember how he won
the battle on health care and the
ferocity with which he pushed it
through in the end, despite the
machinations of the Republican
Party and the insurance companies. Whether you like Obamacare
or not, the president’s mettle on
that was undeniable.
The NRA knows
this and also knows
Should
that, should Obama
Obama get four
get four more years,
more years,
he is likely to take
he is likely to
on gun control and
take on gun
put a serious dent in
control and put
the group’s efforts to
a serious dent
bully America into
in the group’s
submission. That is
efforts to bully
precisely why the
America into
organization is going
submission.”
after him now, and
why it’s worried that
he might win on Tuesday. It may
be an unintentional compliment,
but the NRA has revealed its
own belief that Obama is a tough
president who can get things
done, and in the process, given
all of us another reason to
vote for him.