Jon Stewart spent the first segment of his show focusing on the National Rifle Association's intensive lobbying against any attempts at gun control in the wake of President Obama's announced executive orders. Stewart said
President Obama's entire first-term record on gun control consisted of signing a bill that made it easier to carry firearms in national parks, and yet the NRA spent the last four years feverishly warning its members about the
The National Rifle Association pre-empted Wednesday's White House announcement on the results of Vice President Joe Biden's task force on gun violence prevention by releasing a controversial ad that targets the
The gun lobby's approval ratings are plummeting, and it is losing the support of opinion leaders who should be in the NRA's corner. In a Politico column titled "The High Cost of NRA Extremism," former conservative Rep. Joe Scarborough writes, "As a
After some blowback for involving the president's children in a political debate, NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam insisted that the ad was not about Malia and Sasha Obama: “If anyone thinks we're talking specifically about someone's children, they're
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