From: [d w hite] at [cauldron.spdc.ti.com] (Dan White)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Bush resigns NRA to protest La Pierre
Date: 12 May 1995 07:48:30 -0500

In article <3otdvs$[b--f] at [newsbf02.news.aol.com]> [newsm k r] at [aol.com] (Newsmkr) writes:
>The NRA's comments were overstated, plain and simple. A lot of NRA members
>are not going to forget this damn fool who is dragging the organization
>down into the political gutters. Wayne needs to take a hike and the sooner
>the better. Keep guns legal. Absolutely. Keep Wayne's big publicity
>seeking mouth in the NRA. Absolutely not. Any of you militia guys need a
>new pr man?

Did the House or Senate overstate the situation 12 years ago?

From "Lost Rights:  The Destruction of American Liberty" by
James Bovard, page 221:

In 1983, Rep. John Dingell, liberal chairman of the House
Energy and Commerce Committee, called the federal Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "a jack-booted group of
fascists who are perhaps as large a danger to American
society as I could pick today." (ref 209)  The Senate
Subcommittee on the Constitution investigated the BATF and
concluded, "Enforcement tactics made possible by current
firearms laws are constitutionally, legally, and practically
reprehensible. ... Approximatedly 75% of BATF gun
prosecutions were aimed at ordinary citizens who had neither
criminal intent nor knowledge, but were enticed by agents
into unknowing technical violations." (ref 210)

Do we need to wait another 12 years before we fix this problem?

Dan
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