drugs and guns and violent crime. it good-byes them hope. parts of that bill remain controversial even contested. but as for violent gun crimes, shootings went down over the next decade in a nation that struggles to get gun violence under control, will you this decrease. and you know what else went down? the number of democrats in congress after that vote. democrats lost 54 house seats, eight senate seats in the election held two months after they passed the assault weapons ban. bill clinton was for the ban, signed it into law but even he would go on to say the law cost 20 members their seats in congress, the nra is the reason the republicans control the house. hmm. stop and just think about that. the president who did that very rarest of things in our politics got gun control legislation passed, even he publicly said it was a political loser. that would can like obama saying obamacare was bad politics.