Word: gunning
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That was her way of directing the spotlight at the microconfusion inside the camp of her party's front runner for President, Texas Governor George W. Bush. His staff started the week quashing rumors that Bush, fearful of being labeled the presidential candidate of the pro-gun party, had urged his brethren in Congress to embrace gun control. Bush had talked to Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, the N.R.A.'s main defender in the Senate, but it was only to deny the claim made by the Democrats that Bush favored their party's amendment supporting mandatory background checks at gun...
Funny thing about being a front runner though, someone is always trying to give you a role in their debate. So far, Bush has resisted being drawn into national moments, like this one on gun control, choosing instead to sit on his lead until mid-June, when he plans to take his first presidential trips. But Dole, his closest Republican challenger, is trying hard to prick him into action. In a speech she was scheduled to deliver this Monday, she said, "Leadership requires more than sitting on a front porch measuring which direction the gunsmoke is blowing." Until he began...
Bush's pro-gun stands are politically rational in Texas, where hunting is part of the state's culture and owning a firearm as common as owning a pickup. But Bush's team knows that Gore and other Democrats are salivating at the prospect of painting the Governor as a tool of the gun lobby in a general election. After the Senate vote, Bush joked that if he were in office, his Vice President would have voted for the Republican version of the gun-control measures. He also defended his concealed-carry law as the kind of "reasonable" legislation that...
House Republicans have been dazzled by the bungling of their Senate counterparts whose various and sometimes contradictory positions on gun control a House Republican aide called "too complicated for Kafka." To let the issue cool, House G.O.P. leaders have put off debate until the middle of June in the hopes that lobbying by the N.R.A. and the passage of time will make it easier to enact less stringent legislation. Speaker Dennis Hastert has expressed a willingness to tighten gun laws: increasing the purchase age from 18 to 21 and requiring background checks for all sales at gun shows. But Democrats...
...cover this week was done by photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin. Look at it carefully: it's a young model he photographed twice, looking sweet and then sinister, and merged into one image with a little gun in his left...