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Oooooooh a gun control bill in an election year.

Can we be so lucky?

[glc1173@aol.com]

"At a press conference to unveil the measure, he predicted that the Gun Show Background Check Act of 2002 (HR4034) will not be an issue in the November elections because it already will have passed." (Insight Magazine)

The Klintons and Algore thought the same thing - that winning the Brady Bill and the "assault-weapons" ban early in their first term would keep gun rights from becoming the issue that derailed the candidacy of Algore's in 2000, six years later.

We don't forget nor forgive. Here in my North Carolina county, the popular just-retired police chief of the main city here ran for state legislature - and lost due to a mass mailing by the state Democratic Party saying he was for gun control.

And any liberal thinking that a congressional candidate in most places would be better off making campaign appearances with Sarah Brady than with Charleton Heston hasn't looked at that Red-vs.-Blue county-by-county voting map recently.

Scandals of antigun politicians - from Kalifornia to New York City!

[Chemist_Geek]

For now, neither the House nor Senate has scheduled votes on the new gun-control proposals despite Daschle's promise to move on the issue early in the year. But an aide in Reed's office says he is confident that Senate Majority Leader Daschle will make good on his promise to bring the proposal to a vote before considering the McCain-Lieberman bill. Whatever the result, there is a major gun-control fight brewing in the Senate — one likely to put the members of that body on record during an election year concerning one of the thorniest issues in American politics.

I'd rather they wait until Rocky's in the Senate, but if Levin and Stabenow want to go on record again as being anti-civil-rights and anti-self-defense, then they may. The annoying thing is that Conyers is well-entrenched and impossible to remove from his office.

[Ancesthntr]

Conyers said: "...That is a no-brainer at this point." ,

He should have said: "I am a no-brainer at this point."

[jdege]

He also notes that voters in Minnesota recently defeated a measure to enact "shall-issue permit regulations" that would allow more people to carry firearms.

Minnesota is one of the most liberal states in the nation - and shall-issue carried in the House by 85-46, and failed in the Senate by one vote.

If this is what the gun-grabbers consider an overwhelming victory, they really must be desperate.

(And for what it's worth, the shall-issue fight in Minnesota isn't over - we're almost certain to pick up a couple of votes, given the results of redistricting. The gun-grabbers sole chance of postponing the inevitable is to win the governor's race - Jesse has committed to sign the bill, as have all of the Republican candidates.)

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[Destructor]

LOL! These Dim-ocrats just never learn! Gun Control is a losing issue!! It'll be fun to see how many of 'em go down in flames this time.