Word: nra
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Following the NRA's logic, an ideal gun law allows sportsmen, hunters, and honest citizens attempting to defend themselves easy access to guns. This protects the rights of folks like you and me. Criminals, on the other hand, should be punished heartily for any abuses they commit with handguns...
...NRA, it seems, is seriously committed to punishing those who use guns to violate the law. But then take a look at what the House Judiciary Committee has determined about the NRA's bill: the NRA mandatory sentencing provision "is unnecessary and, as drafted, it weakens and confuses current law." The mandatory sentencing aspects of the bill are far more effective as propaganda than as law enforcement; in 1985, President Reagan signed into law a bill mandating a 5-year prison term for those who possess firearms while committing a crime...
...just what is the NRA up to when it attaches a duplicate of an already existing law to a handgun decontrol bill? It seems transparent that the provision in question is there so that our centerfold, Robert Kliesment, can go on about how the NRA is making our streets safe for good honest citizens by locking criminals behind bars. Without this bogus provision, the NRA ad would have been impossible...
...centering the debate on the penalty issue, the NRA can divert our attention from the rest of the bill and its potential to increase gun-related crimes. The NRA must hide its true motivation and bury the fact that additional violent crime is the price which society must pay in exchange for easing restrictions on--and subsequently increasing the profits of--handgun dealers...
...seems that the NRA's strategy is working well. Despite the fact that nearly every law enforcement organization has come out in opposition to McClure-Volkmer, the Senate passed it by a vote of 70-14, without hearings...