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Post-Littleton Gun Vote in the Senate

When guns became the issue of the day, Republicans, as is their custom, put Their party right behind the NRA, And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.

Calvin Trillin

May 27, 1999

When guns became the issue of the day, Republicans, as is their custom, put Their party right behind the NRA, And shot themselves quite badly in the foot.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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