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When the news broke on July 20, 2017, of the death by suicide of Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Linkin Park, my immediate thought was “surely this is another hoax, like the bogus announcements over the internet of the deaths of Clint Eastwood and William H. Macy.” Sadly, it is true. Chester Bennington took his own life at the age of forty-one. This came as a horrible shock to his family, friends, band mates and millions of adoring fans. He was in t...

The NRA was founded in New York state in 1871 by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church and General George Wood Wingate. Its first president was U.S. Civil War General Ambrose Burnside, who had worked as a Rhode Island gunsmith. Not unlike the Dominion of Canada Rifle Association, founded in 1868, the mandate of the NRA was to train young men in the use of rifles and marksmanship. In 1901, the U.S. Congress created the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle ...