The Vetting - Holder 1995: We Must 'Brainwash' People on Guns
Breitbart.com has uncovered video from 1995 of then-U.S. Attorney Eric Holder announcing a public campaign to "really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way."
Holder was addressing the Woman's National Democratic Club. In his
remarks, broadcast by CSPAN 2, he explained that he intended to use
anti-smoking campaigns as his model to "change the hearts and minds of
people in Washington, DC" about guns.
"What we need to do is change the way in which people think about
guns, especially young people, and make it something that's not cool,
that it's not acceptable, it's not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the
way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes."
Holder added that he had asked advertising agencies in the nation's
capital to assist by making anti-gun ads rather than commercials "that
make me buy things that I don't really need." He had also approached
local newspapers and television stations, he said, asking them to devote
prime space and time, respectively, to his anti-gun campaign.
Local political leaders and celebrities, Holder said, including Mayor
Marion Barry and Jesse Jackson, had been asked to help. In addition, he
reported, he had asked the local school board to make the anti-gun
message a part of "every day, every school, and every level."
Despite strict gun control efforts, Washington, DC was and remains
one of the nation's most dangerous cities for gun violence, though crime
has abated somewhat since the 1990s.
Holder went on to become Deputy Attorney General in the Clinton
administration, and currently serves as Attorney General in the Obama
Administration.
The video of Holder's remarks was uncovered by Breitbart.com contributor Charles C. Johnson.
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