iversal background checks for potential gun purchasers are off the table." The Washington Post (8/20, Hamburger, Dawsey, 14.2M) reports Trump "told LaPierre that the White House remained interested in proposals that would address weapons getting into the hands of the mentally ill; but his "conversation w

d and invested in a plan of absolute protection. The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. BILL MOYERS: Listening to LaPierre, my jaw dropped, and it occurred to me that he might well have plagiarized his vision of a wholly armed nation from another "man of the people" of