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>Source:
>Ether Zone "The Intelligent Alternative News And Opinion Source"
>http://www.etherzone.com/
>
>A GUN CONTROL CHAT WITH BILL CLINTON
>http://www.etherzone.com/guth032100.html
>
>EXPLOITING THE HORROR TO ADVANCE A CAUSE
>By: John Guthmiller
>
>
>When Bill Clinton and the anti-gun harpies seized on the recent shooting 
>in Michigan to push for yet another round of gun restrictions, Wayne La 
>Pierre of the NRA struck back, accusing the administration of being 
>“willing to tolerate a certain level of killing” because such sensational 
>incidents provide fuel for their purging fires.  Clinton and his press 
>minions are in high dudgeon at La Pierre’s apparent blasphemy, and have 
>countered with charges that La Pierre is a “sick” fanatic.
>
>In a tiresome repeat of his most successful rhetorical trickery, Bill 
>Clinton again tries to paint himself as the victim, to scale the moral 
>high ground and stand as defender of the weak.  With a shudder of 
>indignation in his voice, he shakes his head and says “I would like to see 
>him [La Pierre] look Kayla Rolland’s mother in the eye and say that.” 
>Well, Mr.  Clinton, I don’t speak for Wayne La Pierre, or the National 
>Rifle Association, but I’ll rise to that challenge.
>
>
>
>I’ll gladly look Kayla Rolland’s mother in the eye and defend my right to 
>keep and bear arms.  I’ll gladly cite case after case of little girls who 
>are still alive because their mothers or fathers took up arms in their defense.
>I’ll stand face to face with her and tell her that I’m appalled at the 
>death of her daughter, but that that death is not on my hands, or those of 
>the NRA, because I don’t kill people and neither does Wayne La 
>Pierre.  There are people in the country who kill, and we ain’t them.
>
>Then, I return the challenge to you, Mr.  President.
>
>Stand in my place, and tell Mrs.  Rolland how your Justice Department has 
>failed to prosecute any significant percentage of the felons who have been 
>snared by the background checks you insisted on You can point out how the 
>cooling body of every child shot down in the last few years has been a 
>platform from which to launch your disarmament agenda.
>
>Why the push to disarm us Mr.  President?  “For the children?” If you’re 
>so concerned about “the children,” why don’t you enforce the laws you’ve 
>already put on the books?  Why do you shrill for new laws, laws which 
>would have had no effect on the Michigan shooting, or the LA day care 
>shooting, or the Columbine shooting … Why do you demand more laws that 
>only serve to punish law-abiding Americans, while turning a blind eye to 
>the depredations of violent criminals?
>
>Do you want criminals disarmed, Mr.  Clinton?  Or do you want America 
>disarmed?
>Because if you are trying to protect our children, it seems to me that the 
>place to start is with the people most likely to harm them.  But your laws 
>don’t keep guns from criminals; they don’t buy their guns at sporting 
>goods stores and gun shows.
>They steal them.  They buy them from other people who steal them.  But 
>they don’t submit to background checks.  And any adult who is 
>irresponsible enough to leave a gun lying where a
>6-year-old can find it isn’t conscientious enough to make sure a trigger 
>lock is in place.
>
>So I’m afraid you’re going to have to confess to Mrs.  Rolland that your 
>gun laws are knee-jerk responses to a far more difficult question, a 
>question you can’t answer.  And that as a result, you settle for 
>superficial, headline-grabbing demagoguery that costs America its precious 
>right to self-defense.
>
>Pull up a chair.  This could take a while.  Mention your friends David 
>Geffen and Spike Lee and Alec Baldwin, who peddle their message of hate 
>and violence in pretty packages then stand on the stage at the Oscars and 
>take home prizes for their work.  Tell her how you and Jack Valenti 
>laughed off suggestions that the media tone down the blood orgy they 
>celebrate, and how you’ve successfully campaigned to have God stripped 
>from the public discourse, except as the butt of increasingly un-funny jokes.
>
>Regale her with tales of how you and your Left-wing fellow travelers have 
>uprooted all sense of morality and tradition from our country, and 
>replaced them with self-service, venality, and deceit.
>Whatever mendacity you can get away with is fine.  And if you get 
>caught?  No problem.  Your friends will shield you.  Too bad her daughter 
>didn’t have a Praetorian Guard around her.  You can always get around the 
>fact that these shootings keep happening on your watch, despite your 
>unceasing clamor for more gun control.
>
>Wag your finger at her and tell her how you “did NOT have sex with that 
>woman …” Then whisper the salacious details of your harassment of Gennifer 
>Flowers and Paula Jones, and cap it off with a gory retelling of Juanita 
>Broaddrick’s rape.  Mrs.  Rolland will no doubt be spellbound.
>
>Buy her a cup of coffee; you can afford it.  The Chinese have funneled 
>millions to your re-election campaigns, in exchange for which they now 
>stand poised to launch nuclear missiles at California, using technology 
>you made possible.  Oh, and they’re a Most Favored Nation, so they can 
>still sell us slave-made tennis shoes while they’re melting downtown LA 
>into a large glass parking lot.
>
>Tell her about Kosovo.  Tell her about Iraq.  Tell her about Haiti and 
>Somalia and the Panama Canal.  You may want to ignore the fact that 
>800,000 natives were being slaughtered in Africa, at the same time you 
>were crying crocodile tears about fictional atrocities in the 
>Balkans.  And that Christians are being butchered daily in northern Africa 
>by Muslim fanatics while you fiddle.  Oh, and the human rights record of 
>your Chinese friends isn’t exactly on Amnesty International’s hit parade.
>
>Explain how Vince Foster shot himself to death, then drove himself to a 
>park in Washington D.C.  And how
>900 FBI files on your political opponents mysteriously appeared in the 
>White House, right before the Congress abandoned its constitutional duty 
>to check the power of the Chief Executive, and right before the stalwart 
>House leadership vanished like a wraith into the night.
>
>Tell her how the greatest criminal in this country occupies the highest 
>office in the land, and that he lies down with men who are nothing more 
>than apologists for certain preferred ethnic classes.
>She’ll understand that those men protect their followers from the 
>consequences of their own actions.  Actions like becoming addicted to 
>drugs and leaving a loaded ­ and illegal ­ pistol lying where a 6-year-old 
>boy can find it.  Give her the rundown on how “It takes a village” to 
>raise a child in a crack house, surrounded by welfare leeches and felons, 
>and how your “village” managed to look the other way for half a decade of 
>this child’s life.
>
>Remind her that if your Justice Department had enforced the 20,000 gun 
>control laws already on the books, her daughter would still be 
>alive.  .  You can describe the brutality and malfeasance and cover-ups 
>you engineered in the aftermath of Waco.  But make sure you blame her 
>death on the gun and that madman, Wayne La Pierre.
>
>As long as you’re at it, you might as well let her in on the secret: that 
>La Pierre represents a mob of raving, camo-clad rednecks.  He’s part of 
>that mythical, faceless “gun lobby” you blame every time your nihilistic 
>lunacy breeds another horror.  Be sure to describe the NRA as a monolith 
>of evil, pushing its cold-hearted agenda as the victims of mayhem chill in 
>morgue lockers across the country.  Don’t mention the fact that the NRA 
>has always and unfailingly called for safe, sane use of firearms and the 
>harshest possible penalties for their misuse.  Don’t mention that it’s the 
>Left-wing judiciary that frees felons in fits of misguided compassion, 
>only to watch as they take up illegal arms and kill again.  And don’t 
>mention that you continue to nominate such irresponsible judges to the 
>federal bench, and to smear anyone who opposes them.  Or that you’re owned 
>body and soul by the Trial Lawyers Association, who -- coincidentally -- 
>contributed heftily to your re-election.
>
>Explain to her that her daughter is dead because a disturbed blob of 
>humanity was thrown into a world far beyond his comprehension, and that 
>the powers that should have contained and defused his inchoate anger were 
>passed out on the couch.  The watchdogs from the Department of Social 
>Services were sitting in the break room eating donuts and kvetching about 
>their overwhelming case loads.  And the teachers at his school were busy 
>comparing notes on “Heather Has Two Mommies” and planning next year’s 
>Kwanzaa festivities.  Bring along the rap sheets of the uncles and 
>“cousins” and other guests at the child’s flop house so you can explain 
>how repeat offenders and social parasites are the “controlling legal 
>authority” over the natural rage of a maligned 6-year-old.
>
>Finally, you can explain to her how this child was supposed to keep his 
>murderous impulses in check ­ at the age of six ­ while you, slightly 
>older chronologically and in a position of ultimate authority, can’t seem 
>to keep your fly buttoned.
>
>By time you’re done with your chat, I’m sure you’ll have convinced her 
>that but for your unbending defense, those crazies from the NRA would have 
>armed everyone but the parish priest, and that La Pierre is Martin 
>Bormann’s understudy.  You’ve managed to sell that soap to a lot of 
>muddled Americans already.
>
>On the other hand, maybe Mrs.  Rolland will be smart enough to see you for 
>the fraud that you are.  Maybe she’ll reject your suggestions and 
>misdirections and come to her own logical conclusions.  Her daughter will 
>still be dead, no matter how many platitudes and lies you mouth, and 
>tragically, that one truth will survive your siege.  She may realize that 
>she compounds the tragedy when she lets a second-rate hustler like you 
>strangle the liberties of honest citizens in her daughter’s name.
>
>Even with all your posturing, your unctuous riverboat charm, and legions 
>of lackeys pressing your case, it may dawn on her that Wayne La Pierre is 
>right.  You ARE willing to exploit any horror to advance your cause.  Her 
>daughter’s death has been boiled down to its spin value.  And the only 
>redemption you seek is for your stained and sorry legacy.
>
>If she’s astute enough to see through your pose, if her grief hasn’t 
>overwhelmed her reason, if her loss compels her to seek answers instead of 
>hysterically venting, then you’ll be glad you have those Secret Service 
>goons standing nearby.  If they’re fast with a handkerchief, they can keep 
>you from getting too embarrassed when Mrs.  Rolland spits in your face..
>
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>
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>
>
>
>
>John Guthmiller is a freelance political writer and a staff columnist for 
>Ether Zone.
>
>John can be reached at sfs01@home.com John's articles are also published 
>on the Free Republic Website.
>
>Published in the March 21, 2000 issue of Ether Zone.
>Copyright © 2000 Ether Zone (http://etherzone.com).
>Reposting permitted with this message intact.
>
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