Huffington Magazine Issue 43 | Page 47

ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES “WE AREN’T GOING AWAY” gun show? Should it be legal for a firearms owner to lend a shotgun to his neighbor when they go out to the duck blind or allow his nephew to use a .22 to shoot at tin cans?” Inside the NRA and on its web page, the rhetoric is heated and apocalyptic, and almost any proposed gun regulation is treated as the first step toward a government that will “take up the guns” from law-abiding citizens. Keene shrewdly focuses on mechanics. “If it were possible to provide an essentially instantaneous back- HUFFINGTON 04.07.13 ground ch V6