But Trump's high-decibel anti-gun-control rhetoric this year seems to have ingratiated him with the NRA brass, and coupled with the strong pro-gun records of Trump's two sons, proved instrumental in winning the NRA's backing.
"Our assumption is that he was a target because he wore a uniform," Sheriff Hickman said at a press conference last week, criticising what he described as out-of-control "rhetoric" and adding: "We've heard Black Lives Matter, All Lives Matter.
Through metaphors of rape, murder, entrapment and waste (among others) and a highly controlled rhetoric, Owen vividly recreates one horrific effect of the war.
Are you voting with your remote control for out-of-control rhetoric and the very distractions that daze and confuse you?
"This is more evidence the administration's crime-control rhetoric is designed to fuel a moral panic, even though the data continue to show that there are no dangerous permanent trends of crime increasing across the country," Stinson said.
But trying to regain control, the rhetoric of the wily president, with protesters on his very doorstep, eventually became a shade more conciliatory.On January 10th he promised to create 300,000 jobs for unemployed graduates within two years, but gave no indication of how.
The BBC's Middle East regional editor, Shaimaa Khalil told Lyse Doucet the president is finding it difficult to control the rhetoric of the more hard-line groups - who say there is no place for Coptic Christians in Egypt.
The people in charge -- those who control the rhetoric, the policies, the economy -- by and large, are still men.
"For too long, the gun activists have controlled the rhetoric.
