# Having laid low, the N.R.A. is fully prepped and rehearsed to control legislation. As usual.

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**Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/having-laid-low-the-n-r-a-is-fully-prepped-and-rehearsed-to-control-legislation-as-usual/644605/328 "2013-01-14T03:44:06Z")

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Cross-posted from another thread:

> [@Gun registration](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gun-registration/647073/88):
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> [http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/stevekelley/2013/01/09/106290](http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/stevekelley/2013/01/09/106290)
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> For those uninterested in clicking through: it’s a cartoon with four frames. In the first, a man holding a bat stands over a corpse, an observer says, outraged, “You beat him? What’s the matter with you?”
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> In the second, nearly identical image, the man is holding a garrotte; the outraged observer says, “You strangled him? What’s the matter with you?”
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> The third nearly identical image has the murderer holding a knife. “You stabbed him? What’s the matter with you?”
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> And the fourth, a gun: “You shot him? We have to do something about guns!”

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