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Mercifully, as it turns out, the leadership of the National Rifle Association took itself off the radar screen in the week after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School. When Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre ended the silence Friday, he was unbowed, unapologetic, and, ultimately, unhelpful and irrelevant. He left an aching and anguished public, and all those looking for a meaningful and intelligent response to the bloodletting, with clear evidence the gun group will stand its ground, no matter how many wide-eyed first-graders and their teachers are vanquished. |
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