Word: nra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days of the Bush presidency, the sagging national economy seemed to allow every two-bit fanatic to whip out the bullhorn and start making some noise. Of course, everyone recalls different events from the time. If you're on one side of the spectrum, that period was when the NRA nutballs and prayer-in-school peons started gathering steam. On the other side of the political fence, you recall the rebirth of radical feminism, culminating in the so-called "Year of the Woman" in Washington. Any way you slice it, the early 1990s were years of activism on steroids, when...
There are other groups that I would like to see become easy targets--the insurance companies, the NRA, the tobacco industry--but they don't, because they have political leverage. Unfortunately, all teachers do is teach. All they do is show up every day in front of an often intractable group of students and do their best to share knowledge...
...NRA's 2.8 million members might have been forgiven for thinking they were already there, what with the most powerful man in Congress -- Trent Lott -- being their keynote speaker. But the 73-year-old Heston is on a mission to unite the moderate and hard-line gun factions, and facts aren't going to get in the way. Least of all the fact that he supported gun control back in the 1960s, nor the fact that he described AK-47s last year as "inappropriate for private use." To many users, that's like breaking one of the Ten Commandments. Nonetheless...
PHILADELPHIA: Who better to lead the NRA out of the wilderness than Moses? After Charlton Heston was elected President of the gun lobby Monday, with almost universal acclaim from its national convention, some members seemed to think they'd cast the Biblical leader himself. "We have been demonized by the media," said executive vice-president Wayne LaPierre, "and this is a way to say hey, Moses is on our side...
Smiling broadly as he recalls working with Jim Brady and representative Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) to "beat the NRA" with historic gun control legislation, Rowe says he never forgets his father's conviction that "the highest calling is public service...