The National Rifle Association has utterly defeated the “gun safety” movement, throttling it at the only moment in a decade when it seemed to have won back the public. It has gotten expanded gun-rights laws through Republican legislatures with the ease of LeBron James sinking a three-pointer. So as Charles Cooke reports, in a dispatch from the annual NRA conference, the organization has returned to its long status quo of psyching up members by embracing more of the GOP’s culture war issues.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2014/04/28/the_nra_won_and_conservatives_aren_t_sure_what_to_do_with_it_next.html

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