A selective clip from a Neal Knox's Firearms Coalition Online Update:
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>... I didn't see the videotapes of NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre's interviews on Fox Morning News and NBC's Meet the Press until tonight.
Wayne did great. He didn't back down on his blast at Clinton yet he did gently back away by saying he had used strong rhetoric to get people to focus on the Clinton administration's lack of enforcement of federal gun laws and Bill Clinton's use of tragedies to further his political agenda.
More importantly, LaPierre narrowed who he wanted targeted by Federal gun laws, repeatedly limiting "zero tolerance" for gun possession and use by "violent felons with guns, drug dealers with guns and gang members with guns." That's a huge difference from demanding all Federal gun laws be enforced.
Those much-needed subtle shifts should help soothe Congressional Republicans and the many folks at the gun show who thought his "blood on Clinton's hands" statements were hurting gunowners.
LaPierre made a strong point of Thursday's killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy, and wounding of another, apparently by 1960's anti-government radical H. Rap Brown. LaPierre said local authorities asked the Clinton Administration to prosecute Brown as a felon in possession of a firearm in 1995, a possible 10-year sentence. The Clinton Justice Department declined. ...[/quote]
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>... I didn't see the videotapes of NRA E.V.P. Wayne LaPierre's interviews on Fox Morning News and NBC's Meet the Press until tonight.
Wayne did great. He didn't back down on his blast at Clinton yet he did gently back away by saying he had used strong rhetoric to get people to focus on the Clinton administration's lack of enforcement of federal gun laws and Bill Clinton's use of tragedies to further his political agenda.
More importantly, LaPierre narrowed who he wanted targeted by Federal gun laws, repeatedly limiting "zero tolerance" for gun possession and use by "violent felons with guns, drug dealers with guns and gang members with guns." That's a huge difference from demanding all Federal gun laws be enforced.
Those much-needed subtle shifts should help soothe Congressional Republicans and the many folks at the gun show who thought his "blood on Clinton's hands" statements were hurting gunowners.
LaPierre made a strong point of Thursday's killing of a Georgia sheriff's deputy, and wounding of another, apparently by 1960's anti-government radical H. Rap Brown. LaPierre said local authorities asked the Clinton Administration to prosecute Brown as a felon in possession of a firearm in 1995, a possible 10-year sentence. The Clinton Justice Department declined. ...[/quote]
[This message has been edited by sensop (edited March 20, 2000).]
