Interesting Read Re: Clinton Admin Gun Control

[il_10]

I hadn't seen this posted here before, I just found this making its rounds on a social media site, and thought it prudent to link here. It's a brief on gun control from Jody Powell (Carter admin press secretary) to George Stephanopoulos (Clinton sr. policy advisor), that was forwarded to President Clinton with GS's mark of approval.

There are quite a few thoroughly horrifying suggestions for how to approach gun control via registration, waiting periods, and the like, but the rhetoric used is important. There's a surprising amount of acknowledgement that gun control as they were (and are again) proposing it simply doesn't work.

As much as I hate to say it, the NRA is effective primarily because it is largely right when it claims that most gun control laws inconvenience and threaten the law-abiding while having little or no impact on violent crime or criminals.

It's strange to see that type of quote, and then an immediate shift into some really heavy-handed gun control ideas. I doubt that the thinking has changed all that much inside the Clinton circles, so this type of information can be useful to us again.

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/DigitalLibrary/BruceReed/Crime/76/C 647420-gun-ideas.pdf

 

[danez71]

I read about that here. Intresting stuff.

This link takes you to some more links; inlucsing the fax in whole.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=793023&highlight=Library

 

[txblackout]

brilliant, thanks for posting

 

[SuperNaut]

My wife and I have been talking about Powell's brief all morning. Thanks for posting this.

 

[Legionnaire]

Very interesting; thanks for posting.

 

[yokel]

There's a surprising amount of acknowledgement that gun control as they were (and are again) proposing it simply doesn't work.

As much as I hate to say it, the NRA is effective primarily because it is largely right when it claims that most gun control laws inconvenience and threaten the law-abiding while having little or no impact on violent crime or criminals.

It's strange to see that type of quote, and then an immediate shift into some really heavy-handed gun control ideas.

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov/assets/DigitalLibrary/BruceReed/Crime/76/C 647420-gun-ideas.pdf

Reminds me of a favorite quote of mine:

The secret to success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.--Jean Giradoux (1882--1944), French dramatist

 

[barnbwt]

You know, it almost sounds like that administration was a group of really smart and talented political minds (whether or not you agree with them), and one total hack hell-bent on pursuing a policy everyone else in the room knew was a disaster in waiting, but who's opinion was given undue weight & deference however foolhardy. This despite the fact that this group was assembled directly by the man-in-charge, specifically to help him make wise political decisions.

One can't help but wonder if that same fool once again has a position of misplaced prominence, given how openly devoted the Democrats have become to every wacky gun control idea being floated anymore...

TCB