Saturday, January 12, 2013

The NRA is My Hall Monitor

ALBANY -- As the NRA called him "America's most anti-gun governor," Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Thursday it would be a "dereliction" of duty if state legislators failed to enact tougher gun laws quickly. Cuomo, a Democrat, said Republicans in the State

The NRA is essentially proposing hiring a workforce of security agents even larger than the TSA's screeners — there are roughly 99,000 schools in the country — and tasking them with monitoring every single person who passes through the halls. Except

The NRA is essentially proposing hiring a workforce of security agents even larger than the TSA's screeners — there are roughly 99,000 schools in the country — and tasking them with monitoring every single person who passes through the halls. Except

In other words, let polls and NRA opposition drive policy. The editors support a new assault weapons ban and limits on high-capacity clips, increased background checks and greater penalties for drug trafficking.

By popular demand, here is the Return on Investment chart from last night's show, revealing that the support of the NRA is not as powerful as the politicians in its thrall seem to think. The source for the data can be found on this

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