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Gun Control

• October 5 -- 2nd Amendment Right to "Nail Bambi with an AK-47"
More snotty editorial commentary on guns: "In between reinstating every hunter's sacred Second Amendment right to nail Bambi with an AK-47…."

• September 9 -- Not-So-Straight Shooters at the Times
Is the assault weapons ban popular or not? Don't ask the Times.

• August 19 -- More Cheap Shots at Gun Owners from Kristof
Nicholas Kristof resorts to cheap, tiresome psychoanalyzing of gun-owners as self-doubting men who fire guns to make themselves feel more macho: "Assault weapons aren't necessary for any kind of hunting or target shooting, but they're popular because they can transform a suburban Walter Mitty into Rambo, for a lot less money than a Hummer."

• June 21 -- There They Go Again: Ronald Reagan, Anti-Gun
And liberals accuse conservatives of using Reagan for political ends: More cynical Reagan exploitation on the editorial page.

• May 11 -- Times Relays Half-Cocked Anti-Gun Stats
Glen Justice reviews a Mother's Day gun-control rally in D.C, the start of a campaign to lobby for renewal of a ban on assault weapons.

• March 4 -- "My Heroes Have Always Been…" Senate Democratic Leaders?
Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who recently called Democratic Senate leader (and Limbaugh-basher) Tom Daschle "soft-spoken" and "decent," uses a whirlwind gun vote in Congress to spin the liberal leader into a legislative hero: "When the gunfight--or rather, the fight over guns--finished in the Senate on Tuesday, it seemed as if Senator Tom Daschle, the Democratic leader, was the last man standing."

• March 3 -- Incoming Bush Attacks, Sir!
From Todd Purdum's front-page story on John Kerry, conquering hero: "In war and politics, Mr. Kerry has proved himself in past battles and he professed to be ready for the fray….He may be from Massachusetts, Mr. Kerry seemed to be all but shouting, but Michael S. Dukakis he is not."

• August 4 -- Not Ready for Prime Time On Crime
A Times editorial defends D.C.’s useless gun ban: “Erroneously proclaiming Washington the murder capital of the nation, [Sen.] Hatch, the Utah Republican, would make it easier for residents to brandish handguns at home and in the workplace.” But Hatch is right: the FBI reports D.C. was the nation’s murder capital last year.

• May 9 -- Time To Get Squeamish
Columnist Nicholas Kristof laments “some Americans get the willies when they see terms like ‘anal sex.’” But college girls with guns? Now that scares him.