This afternoon I caught some of the old movie “Tombstone” on TV–the one starring Sam Elliot and Val Kilmer. The town had just put up a poster telling all the cowboys and desperados that they had to turn in their guns while they were in town. I thought how amazing that was. Tombstone could do that, but we can’t.
Of course, a long investigative piece in today’s Times helps to explain why. Members of Congress were serving on the NRA board of directors and raking in thousands in campaign contributions, in the meantime derailing legislation the NRA didn’t want and actually helping to change the whole culture on guns.
Will people be shocked by that expose? Will the NRA lose clout? No, Americans will simply go on killing each other. It’s what we do. It’s what Congress does.
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