Yes, you are right,
The gun control madness began immediately.
Who back then gave a second thought to ordering guns by mail? But because Oswald got a gun by mail order, well no American would ever be permitted to do that again! Works every time something bad happens, it seems.
BJ, et al. tried to connect talk radio to the OKC bombing and other bad things. They're still trying to stop conservative opinion with lies.
I remember the Gun Control Act of 1968 well. It was actually a very draconian law although some of it's restrictions have been loosened since. The most disgusting thing about it is many of the gun manufacturers supported it because it banned the importation of so many military surplus guns. I also recall some gun writers who were lukewarm on it too.
James "Scotty" Reston revealed this story in a column in 1966, I believe. Reston had the power to worry Washington's most powerful that he would walk out on them if he sensed that they were trying to BS him.
The hapless Kennedy was savaged by Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961, especially over being chicken at the Bay of Pigs. So badly did JFK represent his Country that he asked for one more chance, a personal meeting with Khrushchev with only the two of them and two interpreters. JFK agreed to meet with Reston first after the meeting. This account is from, "Scotty," by John F. Stacks.
"How was it?" Reston asked casually.
"Worst thing in my life. He savaged me," Kennedy responded. The president seemed to Reston to be almost in shock, repeating himself and speaking with astonishing candor to the journalist. "Not the usual bullshit," Reston wrote in his notepad. "There is a look a man has when he has to tell the truth." Kennedy went on to say that to counter the battering by Khrushchev, which he attributed to the Soviet leader's underestimation of Kennedy's resolve, the United States would have to stand more firmly against the Soviets' demands in Berlin and against the mounting Communist insurgency in South Vietnam. Reston wrote later that he was "speechless" when Kennedy mentioned Vietnam, since that troubled country was at that point nowhere near the heart of the Cold War conflict and, in Reston's estimation, did not carry much weight in the superpower tug-of-war. Ever afterward, Kennedy's remark to Reston was seen by historians and by Reston himself as the moment marking the beginning of America's long slide into the tragedy of Vietnam. [End excerpt]
Yes sir, the JFK people took tens of thousands of Americans into war with the same "resolve" as they had at the Bay of Pigs.
Then LBJ took over caring more about his "Great Society" plans than any thing else including war -- fight the war but it must not in any way hinder getting his "Great Society." Lie, lie, lie whatever it takes. (see McMaster's. "Dereliction of Duty")