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The NRA's Strategic Blunder
How the gun lobby created the movement that threatens to swamp it.
Payback isn't pleasant.
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You had to be there.
As Americans took to the streets Saturday, defying a political order that, in Washington and many state capitals, has allowed extremists to write gun laws, the bodies -- of both the dead and the living who marched in their honor -- mattered a lot. Hundreds of thousands in cities big and small showed up. It was an extraordinary coming-out party for a movement that is now, at long last, undeniably mass.