TRUTH UNDER FIRE
So in the end, the "Million Mom March" turned out to be little more than a
super-hyped Democratic Party campaign rally.
Gee, what a surprise.
* Bill and Hillary Clinton hosted the organizers at the White House;
* Mrs. Clinton and Tipper Gore campaigned personally among the obviously
sympathetic crowd; and,
* Speakers repeatedly praised both the president and the vice president
and castigated the GOP.
Doesn't sound very non-partisan to us.
But then, from the beginning, everything about the event has been
misrepresented by its organizers, with the help of a gullible and
sympathetic media.
"Head Mom" Donna Dees-Thomases piously proclaimed she'd "never been
politically active."
Then it turned out that not only is she the sister-in-law of Susan
Thomases, Hillary Clinton's close political adviser, but she also worked
as an assistant press secretary to two Democratic senators from 1979 to
1983.
Some rookie.
As for a collection of "moms" banding together against the all-powerful
"gun lobby," news coverage somehow failed to mention the rally's
significant backers: Corporate sponsors included Dannon Yogurt, PAX TV,
Virgin Atlantic Airways, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Media and three major
dot-coms.
Again, no surprise.
The rally's message is contradicted by the fact that, despite the
intense media coverage of tragedies like Columbine and Jonesboro, gun
violence in America is down significantly in recent years. And this is
so despite the fact that, under Clinton and Gore, prosecutions of
gun-law offenders are virtually non-existent.
Of the more than 400,000 felons and others successfully barred from
buying guns under the Brady Bill, fewer than 1,000 have been prosecuted
for lying on their applications.
And of the 6,000 youths caught trying to sneak guns into schools since
1996, only 17 (!) have been prosecuted. Federal gun-law prosecutions are
down 25 percent under Clinton-Gore.
The "Million Mom March" was, fundamentally, an exercise in the same
dishonesty that has long surrounded the gun-control debate.
And while gun proponents too often interpret the Second Amendment as
banning any sort of controls, it remains that the Constitution - albeit
ambiguous - protects the right of Americans to own firearms as a means
of self-protection.
The bottom line, however, is that disingenuously arguing for
ever-tougher laws while refusing to enforce those already on the books
is hypocrisy, pure and simple.
Then again, this is the Clinton administration we're talking about.
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