Anarchists In the NewsAugust 4, 2017<August 7, 2017

The Mercury News, “NRA finds its new villain”

National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre speaks on December 21, 2012, in Washington, DC, on the one-week anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The United States' most powerful pro-gun lobbying group, the National Rifle Association, called Friday for armed police or security guards to be deployed to every school in the country. "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun," declared NRA vice-president Wayne LaPierre, in the group's first reaction since last week's massacre of 26 children and staff in an elementary school. AFP PHOTO/Paul J. RichardsPAUL J. RICHARDS/AFP/Getty Images

Or did it? At the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, NRA head Wayne LaPierre gave a remarkable speech during which he offered up a vast, loosely aggregated opposition that was the new threat for gun owners to fear: “leftists,” anarchists, criminals and, of course, “national media machine.”

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The Oregonian, “Why Portland anarchists are patching potholed streets”

Pitting the city’s two mottos — the unofficial “Keep Portland Weird” and...