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TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archives/s126930.htm
Broadcast: 15/05/00
Marching Moms
In 1996 President Bill Clinton swept back into the White House with help from the so-called "soccer mums" - middle class women concerned with bread-and-butter issues like education, law and order, and jobs. This Mothers' Day many of those women turned their attention to gun control, rallying in their hundreds of thousands across the United States. What they want is simple: licences for handguns, a register of those guns, and childproof locks on the triggers. The demands seems simple, but they have incensed the powerful National Rifle Association. So will the soccer mums play a big part in the presidential election in November and who will they back?
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Compere: Tony Jones
Now to my guests.
John Lott is a senior research scholar at Yale University Law School.
He has written extensively on gun-related issues and is the author of 'More guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control'.
He spoke at the pro-gun rally in Washington yesterday.
John Lott joins us from Philadelphia.
Rebecca Peters, an Australian lawyer and former journalist, was one of the key organisers of the Million Moms march.
She'd been active too in the campaign for tougher gun laws in Australia before she took up the position with the Soros Foundation to direct a program of gun violence prevention.
And Stephen Wayne, a professor in the government department at Georgetown University, is an expert on American politics and the presidency.
He has written numerous books on the presidency and the electoral process.
Both Rebecca Peters and Professor Wayne join us from Washington.
Welcome to all of you.
Rebecca Peters, very occasionally an event like this does manage to affect the national psyche and swing the public mood on a big issue.
Now, was this one of those times?
REBECCA PETERS, PROG. DIR. FUNDER'S COLLABORATIVE: Well, I think more than any other event related to gun control, this one would be that event.
I mean, if I can tell you something about what it was like at the march itself.
It was a huge, huge crowd.
It far exceeded the expectations of the organisers.
I mean, there were numbers bandied about 500,000, 700,000 -- whatever.
But it was a very large crowd.[/quote]
There's much, much more, far too long to cut and paste.
I urge you strongly to read it.
The URL again is: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archives/s126930.htm
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Late night news & current affairs
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: abc.net.au > Lateline > Archives
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archives/s126930.htm
Broadcast: 15/05/00
Marching Moms
In 1996 President Bill Clinton swept back into the White House with help from the so-called "soccer mums" - middle class women concerned with bread-and-butter issues like education, law and order, and jobs. This Mothers' Day many of those women turned their attention to gun control, rallying in their hundreds of thousands across the United States. What they want is simple: licences for handguns, a register of those guns, and childproof locks on the triggers. The demands seems simple, but they have incensed the powerful National Rifle Association. So will the soccer mums play a big part in the presidential election in November and who will they back?
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Compere: Tony Jones
Now to my guests.
John Lott is a senior research scholar at Yale University Law School.
He has written extensively on gun-related issues and is the author of 'More guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun Control'.
He spoke at the pro-gun rally in Washington yesterday.
John Lott joins us from Philadelphia.
Rebecca Peters, an Australian lawyer and former journalist, was one of the key organisers of the Million Moms march.
She'd been active too in the campaign for tougher gun laws in Australia before she took up the position with the Soros Foundation to direct a program of gun violence prevention.
And Stephen Wayne, a professor in the government department at Georgetown University, is an expert on American politics and the presidency.
He has written numerous books on the presidency and the electoral process.
Both Rebecca Peters and Professor Wayne join us from Washington.
Welcome to all of you.
Rebecca Peters, very occasionally an event like this does manage to affect the national psyche and swing the public mood on a big issue.
Now, was this one of those times?
REBECCA PETERS, PROG. DIR. FUNDER'S COLLABORATIVE: Well, I think more than any other event related to gun control, this one would be that event.
I mean, if I can tell you something about what it was like at the march itself.
It was a huge, huge crowd.
It far exceeded the expectations of the organisers.
I mean, there were numbers bandied about 500,000, 700,000 -- whatever.
But it was a very large crowd.[/quote]
There's much, much more, far too long to cut and paste.
I urge you strongly to read it.
The URL again is: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/archives/s126930.htm
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