Word: glamourizes
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...nation of 70 million gun owners, the N.R.A. speaks to a venerable American attachment to firearms. There may be no other society in which guns enjoy such a deeply embedded prestige or such enduring glamour. Many Americans contend that the wide distribution of firepower among all levels of society was crucial to establishing the republic and is essential to maintaining it. The N.R.A. has gone further, putting firearms at the center of a faith so fierce that the ordinary terms of political belief -- words like "conviction" and "position" -- may not be sufficient to grasp it. Says N.R.A. Executive Vice President...
...unprepared for emergency. Populism being the operative spirit of this genre, it is up to Perfection's two-man lower class, Val and Earl (adorable Kevin Bacon and solid Fred Ward), to get their betters organized. They make their living doing odd jobs, bicker laconically, dream of urban glamour, can't imagine how to obtain it. But staring into a graboid's gaping mouth, they're the kind of guys -- resourceful, practical, unflappable -- you want on your side...