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"Congress adopted most of our recommendations. But this bill--as big as this bill is--still falls short, because we just could not get the Congress to carry out the requests we made of them. I asked for the national registration of all guns and the licensing of those who carry those guns. For the fact of life is that there are over 160 million guns in this country--more firearms than families. 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.

But the key to effective crime control remains, in my judgment, effective gun control. And those of us who are really concerned about crime just must--somehow, someday--make our voices felt. We must continue to work for the day when Americans can get the full protection that every American citizen is entitled to and deserves-the kind of protection that most civilized nations have long ago adopted. We have been through a great deal of anguish these last few months and these last few years-too much anguish to forget so quickly.

So now we must complete the task which this long needed legislation begins. We have come a long way. We have made much progress--but not nearly enough." - October 22, 1968

That evil man did terrible damage to this nation in so many ways. Irreparable harm, it seems, unfortunately.

fuck that guy

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Originally posted by creslin:
fuck that guy

Well, he's dead, so...

Mobbed up SOB. Got his job by assassination.

Johnson, the architect of the inner city ghetto with his Great Society package, perhaps one of the most damaging decisions in modern America.

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Mobbed up SOB. Got his job by assassination.

Pulled the trigger himself, I hear.

Premonitions of Bill Ayers in LBJ's own actions...

Here’s what LBJ biographer Rober Caro relates of Johnson and his friends as they ran around in Johnson City in the mid-1920s:
"While most of their escapades were harmless, some began to skirt closer to the law. When Lyndon and his friends heard that a German farmer, Christian Diggs, had made his annual batch of grape wine, they pried loose boards from his barn and stole a fifty-five-gallon barrel, worth a not inconsiderable amount of money in Hill Country terms—and Diggs was persuaded only with difficulty not to go to the sheriff. They hung a few sticks of dynamite in trees in Johnson City, and ignited them to scare the townspeople—that was just a prank, but it stopped being funny when it was learned that they had obtained the dynamite by breaking into the State Highway Department storage shed. That was a state offense, and the sheriff passed word around Johnson City that whoever had done it had better not do it again. “I always hated cops when I was a kid,” Johnson was to say, and on this occasion he defied them; a few nights later, they stole more dynamite and shattered the large mulberry tree in front of the school. The Highway Department put a watchman at the shed; after he fell asleep one night, Lyndon and his friends broke in, stole more dynamite, and hung it from the telephone line that ran across Courthouse Square. Then, Bob Edwards says, “we lit the thing and got in the car and ran like hell”—and the ensuing explosion knocked all the windows out of the Johnson City Bank. The sheriff let it be known that the next time something like this happened, he would make arrests. Lyndon’s Grandmother Baines repeated her prediction that “That boy is going to end up in the penitentiary,” and Johnson City, which had always known that he was going to come to no good, felt that he was well on the way to fulfilling her prophecy. And, perhaps, so did Lyndon Johnson himself. Recalling his boyhood, he once said: “I was only a hairsbreadth away from going to jail.”"

I wonder whether we’d have had the Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, the Civil Rights Act, food stamps, gun control, and of course the Vietnam War, if he'd gone to prison as he should have.

That's pretty impressive, really, that pre internet, way back in 1968, so to speak, there were already 160 Million firearms (of the modern and well known variety, which I suspect excludes all muskets and historical sorts) in the hands of American citizens. I don't think I had seen that stat before. So, basically, the number has doubled over my lifetime.

As for Johnson, and most every other fool like him, it's never enough to them. It's a solid reminder of why we should never, ever, give the stupid bastards an inch, or a millimeter even, as it will never be enough, they will never stop asking, never stop trying to deny a fundamental and natural Right that's already been foolishly watered down, significantly.

Guns for me, but not for thee. Typical liberal/democrat.

One of my part time jobs as a youngster was delivery boy for a pharmacy. The pharmacy was in town, and also featured a grill where businessmen and citizens came in for coffee, breakfast, etc.

Saturdays was a day when area ranchers would come into town, run errands, take care of business etc. There was a group of old timers who frequently met for breakfast in the pharmacy. This would have been in 1960-61 and politics would often be the topic.

One of the old timers told the story several times how he had a ranch out between San Marcos and New Braunfels back in the late ‘20’s-early ‘30’s when he was having a cattle rustling problem. He caught a group of college kids, the ring leader of which was a tall skinny drink of water named Lyndon Johnson. “I shoulda strung that SOB up!” he would exclaim.

In those days, 1960’ish, about half the people around there believed him, and the other half thought Johnson was the political genius of all time. Many of them had dealt with him, knew him pretty well.

Isn't he the one that said something about having a certain constituency voting for Dems for a long period of time.

This is why we must not surrender any more ground no matter what. The Left will never stop pressing for their goal of disarming the people of this country. We see the progress LBJ spoke of since the 30's. They use every excuse and event to justify their cause. They've come a long way. They've seized our liberty substantially. We are oppressed by dead men. Not one more inch. In fact, we must begin taking ground back.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Johnson, the architect of the inner city ghetto with his Great Society package, perhaps one of the most damaging decisions in modern America.

Asshole basically destroyed the black family by replacing the man as head of household with government hand outs.

The damage he's done to the country will never be undone. Created a welfare society of voters.

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Originally posted by phydough:
Isn't he the one that said something about having a certain constituency voting for Dems for a long period of time.

Yeah, he's that son of a bitch.

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Originally posted by ChuckFinley:
That evil man did terrible damage to this nation in so many ways. Irreparable harm, it seems, unfortunately.

And he had a Democrat controlled Congress to help do damage.

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They were the voices of a powerful lobby, a gun lobby

Wake up call for the NRA, time to really get involved.

Johnson's push to license owners and register guns angered the National Rifle Association, setting in motion an enduring storm of resistance. Probably more the membership and not the leadership.

In addition to the great society turd, he is also responsible for the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

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Originally posted by creslin:
fuck that guy

Well, he's dead, so...

Sam Kinison did a skit on that.

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If the criminal with a gun is to be tracked down quickly, then we must have registration in this country.

Um, yeah.
Because criminals register their guns. Problem solved. Nice job LBJ.

Didn't he also lie about a WWII Navy mission for which he was awarded the Silver Star?

When I was a little kid all the adults I knew had an unbridled hatred for that man. I didn't understand it at the time. It really surprised me.

I figured out why after I got out of high school. He was a complete POS.