Slowpoke_Rodrigo
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March 14 Neal Knox Report - At the last NRA Board meeting,
E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre said that the big news of 1999 was that no
new gun laws passed.
I suspect that is about to change because in a powerful NRA
advertising campaign, President Charlton Heston calls President
Bill Clinton a liar for blaming NRA for blocking last year's major
gun bill. As Chuck says, it was Clinton and 195 House Democrats
who killed the package that does virtually everything Clinton says
he wants.
Clinton shot back by taping a rare interview with Sam Donaldson
for Sunday's ABC "This Week" program, in which Donaldson
didn't ask the specific question raised in the Heston ad.
Immediately after the interview ran, LaPierre made the point:
"He could have had a bill last summer that included mandatory
safety locks with the sale of every gun, included checks at
all gun shows on all gun sales with a 24-hour delay, included
juvenile Brady, where violent juveniles would be forever prohibited
from owning guns, would even have included Dianne Feinstein's
import ban on high-capacity magazines, and he killed it all over
the issue of a 72-hour wait."
Then Wayne escalated the argument by adding "He's willing to
accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda.
And the vice president, too."
Clinton and his supporters went off like a rocket. Gore called
LaPierre's statement "a sick attack on the President." ABC, NBC
and CBS all said LaPierre has personalized the gun law battle (as
if Clinton and Gore hadn't been blaming NRA for everyt gun death
from Columbine to Kayla).
Sam Donaldson's co-host, Cokie Roberts, said almost the same
thing as LaPierre on the same program last Sept. 12: "The
Democrats don't want a gun bill; they want a campaign issue."
Sunday she didn't repeat what she said exactly six months
before.
Trouble is, what Wayne said could be read to mean that
Clinton's failure to accept last summer's compromise gun bill would
result in more killings until Clinton relates and accepts more gun
laws. It's sure not true.
I suspect Wayne meant the failure of Clinton and Janet Reno to
increase the prosecutions of Federal gun laws against violent
criminals, as Richmond is doing in "Project Exile." But there are
already reports of Exile-type programs being used harshly against
non-violent technical violators -- and woe unto gunowners if we
ever see gun laws enforced for every technical violation (such as
giving any gun to a family member who lives across a state line).
Wayne told the truth about his and NRA's development of the
Instant Check system, writing the so-called "Cop-Killer Bullet"
ban, and endorsing the compromise gun package that Clinton killed.
The press still won't report those facts, but because of the
current uproar, it's going to be harder for Clinton to maintain the
charade that he wants the provisions which he killed -- as Cokie
said, because he wants to preserve a campaign issue.
So I suspect we're going to see passage of at least some
legislation which NRA endorsed, and which I think is a violation of
the Second Amendment.
Clinton-bashing is fun; it's also dangerous.
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E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre said that the big news of 1999 was that no
new gun laws passed.
I suspect that is about to change because in a powerful NRA
advertising campaign, President Charlton Heston calls President
Bill Clinton a liar for blaming NRA for blocking last year's major
gun bill. As Chuck says, it was Clinton and 195 House Democrats
who killed the package that does virtually everything Clinton says
he wants.
Clinton shot back by taping a rare interview with Sam Donaldson
for Sunday's ABC "This Week" program, in which Donaldson
didn't ask the specific question raised in the Heston ad.
Immediately after the interview ran, LaPierre made the point:
"He could have had a bill last summer that included mandatory
safety locks with the sale of every gun, included checks at
all gun shows on all gun sales with a 24-hour delay, included
juvenile Brady, where violent juveniles would be forever prohibited
from owning guns, would even have included Dianne Feinstein's
import ban on high-capacity magazines, and he killed it all over
the issue of a 72-hour wait."
Then Wayne escalated the argument by adding "He's willing to
accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda.
And the vice president, too."
Clinton and his supporters went off like a rocket. Gore called
LaPierre's statement "a sick attack on the President." ABC, NBC
and CBS all said LaPierre has personalized the gun law battle (as
if Clinton and Gore hadn't been blaming NRA for everyt gun death
from Columbine to Kayla).
Sam Donaldson's co-host, Cokie Roberts, said almost the same
thing as LaPierre on the same program last Sept. 12: "The
Democrats don't want a gun bill; they want a campaign issue."
Sunday she didn't repeat what she said exactly six months
before.
Trouble is, what Wayne said could be read to mean that
Clinton's failure to accept last summer's compromise gun bill would
result in more killings until Clinton relates and accepts more gun
laws. It's sure not true.
I suspect Wayne meant the failure of Clinton and Janet Reno to
increase the prosecutions of Federal gun laws against violent
criminals, as Richmond is doing in "Project Exile." But there are
already reports of Exile-type programs being used harshly against
non-violent technical violators -- and woe unto gunowners if we
ever see gun laws enforced for every technical violation (such as
giving any gun to a family member who lives across a state line).
Wayne told the truth about his and NRA's development of the
Instant Check system, writing the so-called "Cop-Killer Bullet"
ban, and endorsing the compromise gun package that Clinton killed.
The press still won't report those facts, but because of the
current uproar, it's going to be harder for Clinton to maintain the
charade that he wants the provisions which he killed -- as Cokie
said, because he wants to preserve a campaign issue.
So I suspect we're going to see passage of at least some
legislation which NRA endorsed, and which I think is a violation of
the Second Amendment.
Clinton-bashing is fun; it's also dangerous.
------------------
Slowpoke Rodrigo...he pack a gon...
Vote for the Neal Knox 13
