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The Daily Bulletin January 7, 2021
What To Know Today

The links between yesterday's mob and gun-rights groups. Gun violence prevention advocate Joshua Horwitz has long warned that the embrace of anti-government ideology by some gun-rights groups poses a danger to the country. "They have created this environment," Horwitz, executive director of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and the author of Guns, Democracy, and the Insurrectionist Idea, said yesterday afternoon. "When [then National Rifle Association president] Charlton Heston said, 'Out of my cold dead hands, Mr. Gore,' to today, there is a direct line. It's saying that violence is part of the political process." Horwitz…

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