[Godebert]

Should people have access to buy assault weapons?

Michael Steele's answer to the Washington Post:

"Society should draw lines. What do you need an assault weapon for, if you're going hunting? That's overkill."

[Sir_Ed]

And...I just read Christie Whitman’s site, and she said this about Steele:

“Christine Todd Whitman is the President of The Whitman Strategy Group (WSG),...She is also co-chair of the Republican Leadership Council (RLC), which she founded with Senator John Danforth and Lt. Gov. Michael Steele.”

John Danforth was an ultra-liberal Rockefeller Republican!

“The RLC’s mission is to support fiscally conservative, socially tolerant candidates and to reclaim the word Republican. The RLC was created in March of 2007 by joining forces with Governor Whitman’s political action committee, It’s My Party Too.”

Wow...it’s becoming evident that Steele is a big-tent Republican who’s trying to pull the wool over conservatives’ eyes! He thinks Roe v Wade should be kept, wants to ban semi-auto weapons and co-founded a group (with ultra-lib John Danforth) to “reclaim” the Republican Party, merging it with Todd Whitman’s liberal group It’s My Party Too.

Yuck...he’s lost my support.

Ed

[Tarpon]

Fortunately the Heller decision answered that question. The two rights contained in the Second Amendment, according to the Supreme Court is the right to life, and defense of that life and the right to own militia weapons. Specifically guns like the Army's AR-15 and the pistols used by the Army.

Plenty of Governments try to limit the firepower of their citizens, Heller made clear that the Second Amendment prohibited that.

The next step with Heller is incorporation, make it applicable to the states.

[gogogodzilla]

Dang, Switzerland is more conservative than the head of the Republican party.

There, at least, heads of households are required to have a functioning assault rifle... and know how to use it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Steele appears to be an idiot on the 2nd Amendment.