Running scared the “first time”??? They ran scared in 1968...
***Running scared the “first time”??? They ran scared in 1968...***
It could have been worse in 1968.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29197
” If guns are to be kept out of the hands of the criminal, out of the hands of the insane, and out of the hands of the irresponsible, then we just must have licensing. If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.
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.
—Lyndon Johnson 1968
That's a little dramatic, isn't it? Do the names Harlan Carter and Neal Knox mean anything to you?