Reuters/Reuters - A man rides down an escalator at the George R. Brown Convention Center, ahead of the National Rifle Association's (NRA) annual meeting in Houston, Texas May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Adrees Latif
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Tens of thousands of National Rifle Association members gather in Houston this weekend for the first time since the U.S. Senate rejected a plan to expand background checks for gun buyers, but NRA officials said attendees would not sit back to celebrate victory.
"We view it as an opening battle in what will be a multi-year war," said Andrew Arulanandam, a spokesman for the NRA, which lobbied against the proposal. "We're definitely not resting on our laurels."
On Thursday, as thousands of NRA delegates were arriving for the conference, a man sparked a panic at a busy Houston airport terminal when he pulled out a gun and shot at the ceiling, then either shot himself or was killed by a security officer who confronted him.
Of course the gun-rights fanatics will disavow any association with this character. That's what they do when one of their own acts badly. I ask you, does he belong to the gun-control side or the pro-gun side?
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