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“SHUCKS, IT WAS JUST ONE MORE LITTLE KILLING”
As Congress prepared to adjourn for the mid-year election, Senator Thomas Dodd’s gun control bill died without a vote. Placing the blame on the National Rifle Association (NRA), Herblock points out that more than 17,000 people had been shot annually in the United States. Senator Robert Kennedy, too, decried the NRA, stating “For too long we have dealt with these deadly weapons as if they were harmless toys.” Under the Senate rules, Dodd (1907–1971) had to reintroduce the legislation, which later passed as the Gun Control Act of 1968.
“Shucks, It Was Just One More Little Killing,” 1966. Published in the Washington Post, May 31, 1966. |