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By Osha Gray Davidson. 305 pp. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1993. $25. ISBN 0-8050-1904-9.

For many of us, the shocking assassinations of John Kennedy in 1963 and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968 first made us aware that we had two problems: one with guns and another with a lobbying group opposed to even the most modest control of guns. I remember being somewhat annoyed several years later when my son returned from summer camp with a marksman certificate emblazoned with the emblem of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Even though I wondered why an independent camp had allowed the NRA to capture the attention of young boys, I did not . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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