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'NRA defends purchase of former Congressman' Asa Hutchinson

Fiction is as strange as truth. Noted, the article on which the headline above is based is written by Andy Borowitz, a humorist for New Yorker.
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Asa! distances himself from NRA; not easy UPDATES

Asa Hutchinson has gotta be kidding. The National Rifle Association announced that Republican Asa Hutchinson had been chosen to lead a study on school safety.
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NRA uses Asa Hutchinson to call for more guns in school

The National Rifle Association, with Arkansas Republican gubernatorial candidate Asa Hutchinson as front man for the gun lobby, has a Washington news conference at 10 a.m. to announce their suggestion for response to recent gun violence in school.

Gun nuttery and the race for U.S. Senate

The gun nuts are spoiling to go after U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor. No surprise.
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Gun permits as official secrets

The vote was 84-3 in the House today to close the records of concealed carry permit holders from the state Freedom of Information Act.

Guns make you safe?

Tell that to the family of a Eureka Springs woman killed by a man with a handgun he shouldn't have been able to buy.
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Fact: Guns don't make homes or women safer

Speaking of topics certain to be not so warmly received in certain regions of Arkansas: Check this New York Times editorial on the fallacy of the increased safety offered by guns: But there is a more fundamental problem with the idea that guns actually protect the hearth and home.

The 2nd Amendment: It's about militias and race

A history lesson the 2nd Amendment this week from Ernie Dumas. Not that it will influence any congressional votes, particularly in the South, in favor of any gun control measures supported by a black president.
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Message from Gun Appreciation Day — Duck

Yesterday was Gun Appreciation Day across this exceptional land and it produced a fair amount of gun-related news: * GUNS: APPRECIATE WITH CARE:In case you missed it, five people were injured at three accidental shootings at Gun Appreciation Day events nationwide.

McDaniel throws in with gun nuts

It's not too surprising, but disheartening just the same that the state's top legal officer, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, has thrown in with the demagogues and dishonest Republicans who suggest, without giving any specifics, that any reaction to making guns safer is an assault on the Second Amendment.
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Obama announces plan to address gun violence

President Obama went on national TV this morning to talk about his plans to tighten regulation of guns.

The delayed morning report

Most schools and governments will have a late start today so that roads may clear.
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