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In the news article The NRA will fall Adam Winkler a professor at the UCLA School of law believes that the Power that the NRA once had is slowly disappearing. He begins the article saying he understands the anger that gun control activist are feeling that there were no recent big laws passed in favor of gun control after a deadly shooting at a community college. But then he explains why these supporters of gun control should stay hopeful because he senses that the NRA won’t be as powerful as they once were. Winkler goes on to say that most of the people who are in the NRA are mainly white live in country areas and are not that educated. Winkler explains that since that since this kind of groups of people are slowly declining support for the

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