![]() ![]() National trends seemed to be on their side. Gun reform groups stepped up after the Newtown tragedy to do something they had never done before: They tried to match the NRA dollar for dollar in electoral campaigns to help gun reform candidates win. The gun lobby looked vulnerable for the first time in decades since it emerged on the national stage during the unsteady, often violent times of the late 1970s. His proposed solution of solving gun violence by having more guns rang hollow. When the National Rifle Association chief executive Wayne LaPierre finally did speak on national television, commentators ridiculed him for sounding so “tone deaf” to the still raw emotions of the nation. ![]() Governors in states from New York to Colorado pledged to pass stricter gun laws in their states, too.įor seven long days after Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the gun lobby said not a word. President Obama and Congressional leaders promised action in Washington. The horrific massacre of mostly first-grade children in Newtown, Connecticut, seemed to have changed the nation’s views of guns. ![]() Earlier this year, long before this week’s latest tragic shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard, one expert after another predicted the gun lobby’s demise. ![]()
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