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The NRA's journey from marksmanship to political brinkmanship

  • Written by Robert Spitzer, Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department, State University of New York College at Cortland
Late actor and former National Rifle Association President Charlton Heston held a rifle aloft at a 2002 get-out-the-vote rally. AP Photo/Jim Cole

The mass shooting on Valentine’s Day in Parkland, Florida, ripped at the hearts of Americans in a way perhaps not seen or felt since the Sandy Hook Elementary School bloodshed in Newtown, Connecticut...

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