Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hasty, hysterical legislation only promises to leave the law-abiding American more exposed to the armed criminal and addict. We already have plenty of laws on the books; laws do not automatically prevent crimes. Trained gun owners are the answer to the gun problem...
...Some of my fellow N.R.A. members might change their minds about our frightfully inadequate gun laws if they spent a few days watching the "weekend warriors" being brought into Temple's accident dispensary, also known as the Tioga Knife and Gun Club. If you really want to see the lead fly, go to the Poconos on the opening day of deer season; it makes the Tet offensive look like kid stuff...
...your article on the Middle East, you stated that "Israeli fighter-bombers streaked over the Jordan and pounded 'Long Tom' gun emplacements near Irbid, a town twelve miles inside the cease-fire line [June 14]." I can assure you that there are no gun emplacements whatsoever near Irbid. In any case, the Israelis bombarded the city itself, which has a population of 100,000 people. They killed or wounded over 100 Jordanian civilians. You might be interested to know that most of the damage to the city was a result of the Israelis using Russian 130-mm. guns...
Rarely had so many politicians altered their positions so radically and so swiftly. As mail cascaded into their Capitol Hill offices, Senators and Representatives who had long opposed even the mildest gun-control legislation nimbly switched sides. "Times change," said Nebraska's Republican Senator Roman Hruska, once Capitol Hill's strongest opponent of controls, "and sometimes they change rapidly...
...part, the President would like to see a provision tacked onto his bill calling for registration and licensing of guns. But he fears it would result in time-killing hearings or a lengthy debate in Congress. Without question, he considers the gun-control provision in the omnibus crime bill to be hopelessly weak. He is not at all happy about the rest of the bill, either, though he reluctantly signed it into law last week. Johnson had considered vetoing the bill, but was assured by eleven governmental departments whose advice he had requested that most sections would hold up under...