Anydoubt about where the gun lobby may be headed after the Sandy Hook school shooting ended fast, after NRA leaders endorsed the CEO of the firm that made the gun used to kill children.
The rites of spring rarely change. Every year, even before turkey season begins, hunters begin sighting their shotguns. Every spring, too, eligible members of the National Rifle Association elect directors to its governing board.
The main argument driving the modern NRA is not a pragmatic, but an ideological one.
The current head of the Nominating Committee, Patricia A. Clark, lives in Newtown, just a couple of miles from the school where 20 young children and six adults were massacred.
