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...most powerful lobbies on Capitol Hill taking big hits. Even though PAC dominance never matched public conceptions, for years, such large groups as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the tobacco lobby possessed enough political clout to stimy any legislative attack against them...
Meanwhile, Americans are increasingly coming to regards crime as the nation's number one problem. The surge in gun-related violence (up 21 percent in 1992 alone) and daily reports on evening newscasts of children murdering each other, have severely undermined each other, have severely undermined the NRA's whining about individual rights. The rights of Americans to own weapons that can fire hundreds of bullets for minutes--for apparently no legitimate purpose--seems specious when waves of terror leave dozens dead in Texas or on a Long Island train...
Likewise, Clinton has been behind Congress's recent effort to take on the gun lobby, securing the passage of both of Brady Bill and the recent ban on assault rifles. In a much-publicized hunting trip, Clinton tried to bypass the NRA and explain to hunters the difference between a hunting rifle and a Saturday-night special...
Congress should not defer to the pressures applied by the NRA and the gun industry. Too many times, government has abandoned efforts to eliminate menaces to the whole nation when one industrial sector or another begins to howl. The problem of guns affects all of society. No small minority should hinder the efforts to find a solution...
...most striking feature of the Brady Bill debate has been the NRA's success in convincing us that the bill is a major victory for gun control proponents. By presenting the bill as the single greatest blow to American liberties since the Alien and Sedition Acts, the NRA makes it sound as if the bill's passage was a major advance for gun haters. On the contrary, the bill is only a modest step towards controlling weapon sales...