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Read the emotion in Clinton's response, he is making his typical "I feel your pain" appeal to the masses, the soccer mom's, the urban elitists. Telling them that only he can bring about solutions to their problems. Ronald Reagan was criticized for being an actor, Clinton is putting on a show that the former President never dreamt of.
To all those who criticized the NRA, now is the time to get behind them and give them all the support you can. They have sounded the battle cry, its up to us as individual gun owners to carry the fight. It is only the NRA that has the power and authority to call Clinton just what he is, and it is long over due. To long we as NRA members have had to listen in silence as Clinton preached his message of "Common Sense" gun laws, lied and used violent tragedy to promote his view point. To long has the media published, without question, every statement and statistic he has bandied about.
There are many great 2nd Amendment supporting groups that are working for our rights, but only the NRA has been singled out by Clinton and the media as the sole road block to common sense gun control. And only the NRA has the membership base to effectively fight back against the "feel good" left.
White House, NRA Keep
Elbows Flying on Gun Control
Updated 8:42 a.m. ET (1342 GMT) March 14, 2000
The acrimonious back-and-forth over gun control rages on between the National Rifle Association and President Clinton, who says he's "just trying to keep more people alive."
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Clinton: 'I'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody'
Neither the White House nor the NRA was backing off from a war of words that included an accusation from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierrre that Clinton was "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president too."
"It's pretty hard to take," Clinton told a Democratic crowd during a political fund-raising speech Monday night in Chicago.
As he did earlier during two appearances in Cleveland, Clinton repeated LaPierre's comment in a soft, almost incredulous tone. "I didn't like that," he said.
The conflict seemed sure to continue, as the White House tries to train an unflattering light on the NRA and its mostly Republican backers in Congress as Vice President Al Gore campaigns to replace Clinton and Democrats hope to regain a majority in the House in November.
"I'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody," Clinton said Monday night. "I'm just trying to keep more people alive."
Clinton has issued a challenge to Congress to pass what he calls "common-sense gun control" before the April 20 anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, although his plan failed in Congress last year.
Heston implies Clinton lied when he characterized the NRA as resistant to reasonable gun-control laws
He wants to impose background checks on sales at gun shows that could take as long as 72 hours. Many congressional Republicans, like the NRA, want any such checks to be instant or at least no longer than 24 hours. Clinton also wants trigger locks to be required on new guns and a ban on the import of large-capacity ammunition clips.
Even in the face of Columbine and the shooting death of a 6-year-old by a first-grade classmate, Clinton said, the NRA is set in its opposition.
"I want you to see what we're up against whenever we try to change here," Clinton said.
LaPierre, who made his original charge Sunday, held his ground on Monday. He said it is Clinton who owes the parents of children killed by guns an explanation of why federal gun laws are being so poorly enforced.
"I think he should look them in the eye and explain why he won't enforce the laws against crack dealers with guns and take them off the street," he said in an interview.
What began the exchange Sunday is a new campaign in which NRA President Charlton Heston implies in television ads that Clinton lied when he characterized the NRA as stubbornly resistant to reasonable gun-control laws.
"When what you say is wrong, that's a mistake," Heston says in several of them. "When you know it's wrong, that's a lie."
On Monday night, Clinton noted that when he was governor of Arkansas the NRA once gave him a lifetime membership, and that he had a productive partnership with the gun group to promote safety for young hunters.
"I think it's been revoked now," he joked.
— Associated Press contributed to this report
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Read the emotion in Clinton's response, he is making his typical "I feel your pain" appeal to the masses, the soccer mom's, the urban elitists. Telling them that only he can bring about solutions to their problems. Ronald Reagan was criticized for being an actor, Clinton is putting on a show that the former President never dreamt of.
To all those who criticized the NRA, now is the time to get behind them and give them all the support you can. They have sounded the battle cry, its up to us as individual gun owners to carry the fight. It is only the NRA that has the power and authority to call Clinton just what he is, and it is long over due. To long we as NRA members have had to listen in silence as Clinton preached his message of "Common Sense" gun laws, lied and used violent tragedy to promote his view point. To long has the media published, without question, every statement and statistic he has bandied about.
There are many great 2nd Amendment supporting groups that are working for our rights, but only the NRA has been singled out by Clinton and the media as the sole road block to common sense gun control. And only the NRA has the membership base to effectively fight back against the "feel good" left.
White House, NRA Keep
Elbows Flying on Gun Control
Updated 8:42 a.m. ET (1342 GMT) March 14, 2000
The acrimonious back-and-forth over gun control rages on between the National Rifle Association and President Clinton, who says he's "just trying to keep more people alive."
J. Scott Applewhite/AP
Clinton: 'I'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody'
Neither the White House nor the NRA was backing off from a war of words that included an accusation from NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierrre that Clinton was "willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president too."
"It's pretty hard to take," Clinton told a Democratic crowd during a political fund-raising speech Monday night in Chicago.
As he did earlier during two appearances in Cleveland, Clinton repeated LaPierre's comment in a soft, almost incredulous tone. "I didn't like that," he said.
The conflict seemed sure to continue, as the White House tries to train an unflattering light on the NRA and its mostly Republican backers in Congress as Vice President Al Gore campaigns to replace Clinton and Democrats hope to regain a majority in the House in November.
"I'm not trying to pick a fight with anybody," Clinton said Monday night. "I'm just trying to keep more people alive."
Clinton has issued a challenge to Congress to pass what he calls "common-sense gun control" before the April 20 anniversary of the Columbine High School shootings in Colorado, although his plan failed in Congress last year.
Heston implies Clinton lied when he characterized the NRA as resistant to reasonable gun-control laws
He wants to impose background checks on sales at gun shows that could take as long as 72 hours. Many congressional Republicans, like the NRA, want any such checks to be instant or at least no longer than 24 hours. Clinton also wants trigger locks to be required on new guns and a ban on the import of large-capacity ammunition clips.
Even in the face of Columbine and the shooting death of a 6-year-old by a first-grade classmate, Clinton said, the NRA is set in its opposition.
"I want you to see what we're up against whenever we try to change here," Clinton said.
LaPierre, who made his original charge Sunday, held his ground on Monday. He said it is Clinton who owes the parents of children killed by guns an explanation of why federal gun laws are being so poorly enforced.
"I think he should look them in the eye and explain why he won't enforce the laws against crack dealers with guns and take them off the street," he said in an interview.
What began the exchange Sunday is a new campaign in which NRA President Charlton Heston implies in television ads that Clinton lied when he characterized the NRA as stubbornly resistant to reasonable gun-control laws.
"When what you say is wrong, that's a mistake," Heston says in several of them. "When you know it's wrong, that's a lie."
On Monday night, Clinton noted that when he was governor of Arkansas the NRA once gave him a lifetime membership, and that he had a productive partnership with the gun group to promote safety for young hunters.
"I think it's been revoked now," he joked.
— Associated Press contributed to this report
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