President Clinton and Gun Control [View all]

It has been insinuated on another thread that in his biography, President Clinton blames the 1994 Congressional loss to Republicans on the power of the NRA and his support of the Brady Bill and the AWB:

Just to point out a few facts about this thinly-veiled NRA propaganda piece: with a few minor changes the Brady Bill remains as the law of the land until today, and the AWB lasted for ten years, when it was allowed to expire in 2004. The gun control legislation proposed by President Clinton in 1994 was enacted into law. What President Clinton actually said in his book was: "The gun lobby claimed to have defeated nineteen of the twenty-four members on its hit list."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=625308

The NRA claimed that they accomplished this coup all on their own, when in fact it was President Clinton's healthcare bill that had the neocons' knickers in a knot. The NRA just piled on and took credit for something that would have happened in any event due to the carefully orchestrated neocon propaganda campaign against the healthcare initiative (which unlike the Brady Bill, did NOT become law).

The neocon-funded NRA propaganda machine began a campaign of outright lies, and claimed that the Democratic Party was "comin' to git yur guns," and that remains as the gun lobby's main point of disinformation to the present day. When Democrats repeat and reinforce this lie on a Democratic discussion board, it needs to be countered.

With organizations like Americans for Responsible Solutions (Gabby and Mark Giffords) the NRA lies and misinformation are being countered and proven to be false. The American people are beginning to see the NRA and its apologists for what they really are: neoconservative corporate shills, and fear-mongers-for-profit. The NRA is an insidious and anti-American organization funded by the Koch Brothers and other ultra-neoconservatives like them.