Two events, four decades apart: One is the murder of a 15 year old boy in 1930's Texas. The other is the attempted assassination of a U.S. President. These two events collide in ways no one could have imagined, setting the stage for a war between common sense and one of the most powerful forces in American political history: The National Rifle Association.
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Key Topics
- A Small Border Town Murder
- The Attempted Assassination of Ronald Reagan
- The Brady Bill: What Works, What Doesn’t
- The Founding of the National Rifle Association
- An N.R.A. Divided Cannot Stand
- The Cincinnati Revolt
- A Buried News Dug Up in Texas
- The Secret Behind the N.R.A.’s Power
- Over and Over
- The Winds Might Be Changing
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