Audio Recording of VPC Gun
Banner's Confession:
Clinton/Feinstein Gun Ban
Sunsetting
Will Not "Make One Whit of Difference"
by Angel Shamaya
Director@KeepAndBearArms.com
March 26, 2004
KeepAndBearArms.com -- We owe
professor John Lott some appreciation for bringing to our attention a recent
confession by a certain extremist gun banner. In his March 25 article,
Lott quotes a VPC representative as saying:
"If the existing assault-weapons ban
expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one
way or another in terms of our objective, which is reducing death and injury
and getting a particularly lethal class of firearms off the streets. So if it
doesn't pass, it doesn't pass."
The VPC representative who said the above is
Tom Diaz -- arguably one of the most extreme gun banners any independent
prohibitionist organization has to offer. The NPR interview took place on
Morning Edition with Bob Edwards (Larry Abramson reporting), March 11, 2004.
The full NPR report can be listened to online
at the NPR website, for however long they archive their radio programs, right
here: http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1760128
It's a good idea to store the relevant excerpt
of that interview on as many hard drives as possible. To make that fast and
easy, following is a 1.3 megabyte .wav file of that portion of the interview.
Download your copy right here: http://KeepAndBearArms.com/soundfiles/VPC_Diaz_03112004.wav
, and please pass it around -- especially to friends who are known to keep great
backups of RKBA-helpful archives.
WHAT DO WE DO WITH THIS?
This quote from Mr. Gun Banner can be highly
useful. We should use it wherever our voices can be heard: articles, editorials,
interviews, conversations, letters to the editor, and especially to public
servants who support renewing the semi-auto rifle and magazine ban. The quote is
great as is, and it's even better like this:
"If the existing assault-weapons ban
expires, I personally do not believe it will make one whit of difference one
way or another in terms of ... reducing death and injury .... So if it doesn't
pass, it doesn't pass."
--Tom Diaz, Violence Policy Center
Representative
National Public Radio; March 11, 2004
Morning Edition with Bob Edwards; Larry Abramson reporting
Thanks for the heads up, John.
Thanks for the confession Tommy boy. Please let
us know next time you'll be on NPR.
