My fellow Americans are aroused now.At the signing of the U.S. Gun Control Act on Oct. 22, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson hailed the bill as the first step in disarming “the criminal, and the careless, and the insane.”
Johnson, while praising the regulatory checks the law created, acknowledged that the legislation’s language fell short of his original vision, which would have required gun carriers to be licensed and would have established a national registration for guns — would-be regulations that remain controversial today.
Despite the Texas Democrat’s cautious optimism, passage of the landmark Gun Control Act of 1968 triggered a decades-long, ongoing culture war, with interpretations of Second Amendment personal liberties pit against gun control advocates’ calls for increased public safety.
“The voices that blocked these safeguards were not the voices of an aroused nation. They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby, that has prevailed for the moment in an election year,” Johnson said at the time.
Gun Control Act of 1968 turns 50
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Gun Control Act of 1968 turns 50
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Re: Gun Control Act of 1968 turns 50
...and most of Johnson's positions of that era are now the body politic of...the Republican party. Or benignly stickered as ''Conservative'', and doubly so at election time.
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Re: Gun Control Act of 1968 turns 50
This pretty much describes what has happened since the sixties. Democrats started chasing the minority vote, along with the hippy/college indoctrinated draft dodger vote. At the same time Republicans started chasing the Democratic vote. So now we have come to the place where Republicans are really just Democrat lite and Democrats are just straight up communists.WhyNot wrote:...and most of Johnson's positions of that era are now the body politic of...the Republican party. Or benignly stickered as ''Conservative'', and doubly so at election time.
Johnson set all this in motion. He was a wily old redneck. He knew exactly what he was doing.
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