DeLay: "Zero chance" for (Assault Weapons Ban) renewal passing in House

AWBanSunset.com ^ | 5/9/03 | Stuart Roy

[E. Pluribus Unum]

House Majority leader Tom DeLay, through a spokesman, says the recently introduced AW Ban renewal bills (the Senate version, or the significantly more restrictive House version) will not pass in the House of Representatives.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

To all the hysterical "Bush betrayed us" Nervous Nellies out there (and you know who you are): Delay will do his job.

[SoDak]

Hammer time.

[Asclepius]

To all the hysterical "Bush betrayed us" Nervous Nellies out there (and you know who you are): Delay will do his job.

Yeah. OK. But what about the nervous nellies who fret about family and gay issues etc.? What will Delay do for them?

[gulfcoast6]

President Bush knew this but it was a good sound bite for the 'take the guns away' bunch.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Yeah. OK. But what about the nervous nellies who fret about family and gay issues etc.? What will Delay do for them?

Didn't you forget a bunch of other things?

Isn't Tom Delay supposed to answer all your prayers and give you everything you want, NOW?

[Fraulein]

They have to kill it because they know otherwise Bush would sign it.

[TexanToTheCore]

"They have to kill it because they know otherwise Bush would sign it."

This little OP was set up a long time ago and everyone is one board, including many Demos. This is a loser and won't see the light of day. The only people who will gain anything from it are the sponsors who can go to their constituents and say;

"Well, I wrote the bill and it died in committee. What can I do?"

[NormsRevenge]

LOL.. cynic :-)

[The KG9 Kid]

We'll see how resilient Tom Delay and the GOP is after a few more remotely-controlled psychos shoot up universities and playgrounds at the most convenient moments during anti-firearms legislation in Washington.

[applemac_g4]

Under normal circumstances, I support the positions the NRA takes and don't care for restrictions politicians try to place on the 2nd amendment.

That having been said, I wonder if letting the assault weapons ban die is such a good idea. The difference between then and now is 9-11. If we have this type of weapon readily available for sale within the United States, it seems to me that it would make it that much easier for a terrorist group to infiltrate the country unarmed, and then acquire the necessary tools to carry out an attack.

Think of the attack at El Al counter in LA...now have a dozen guys there instead of one...and arm them with machine guns.

Preserving the assault weapons ban makes it just that much harder for terrorists to obtain tools of the trade.

[mabelkitty]

Bush wins agains in another round of "rope-a-dope"!!

Yeeee-Hawww!!

[deport]

FYI.... guess if DeLay is correct the 'I want vote for him ever again' crowd will have to move onto another topic...

[Fraulein]

Bush said that he would sign it if he crosses his desk. Why? So that he too can say to the soccer moms: "Well, it died in committee. What can I do?"

If Bush knew that it was not going to ever cross his desk, then why say anything at all about his willingness to sign it?

[Teacher317]

To all the hysterical "Bush betrayed us" Nervous Nellies out there (and you know who you are): Delay will do his job.

How does that mitigate his promise to betray us? Say your spouse tells you they are going out to have sex with someone they'll pick up at a bar, then comes home and tells you that there wasn't anyone at the bar, it's closed on Sundays. Does that make you feel better?

[Long Cut]

I'll keep my fingers crossed, and believe it when I see it.

Understand, however, that a bad mass shooting, REGARDLESS OF WEAPON INVOLVED, would all but guarantee the passage of an extension.

[PuNcH]

Think of the attack at El Al counter in LA...now have a dozen guys there instead of one...and arm them with machine guns.

Preserving the assault weapons ban makes it just that much harder for terrorists to obtain tools of the trade.

The assault weapons ban has nothing to do with machine guns. Your confusion is a good example of why this piece of propaganda has to go.

[Dead Dog]

This means Hi-Cap mags will be back in circulation by Christmas!

[patton]

I do not think that the ban does what you think it does.

[Dead Dog]

Owning an Apple computer puts you in a high risk group for HIV.

[ChuckMartelRox]

You've got it!