This isn't all Clinton's fault. The framers of the Constitution made clear that they did not want a situation where only those with firearms are the government and criminals. The founders believed that firearms in the hands of decent citizens is the greatest safeguard to individual safety and freedom.
Recent history betrays the gun control theory.
If gun control laws reduced crime, we should be a much safer society toady than we were prior to 1968. But that is simply not the case. In spite of literally thousands of gun control laws that have passed since '68, in actuality, we have become a more violent society. The inescapable conclusion, therefore, is that gun control laws are actually a diversion to real crime fighting.