[MissAmericanPie]

He said he and Ashcroft would strenuously enforce the laws on the books regarding gun control. This was one of the laws on the books at the time he took office.

[Robert_Paulson2]

The number one law on the book regarding arms control is the second amendment. Logically speaking. It would follow then that any laws regarding gun control that MAY be on the books, have to be interpreted and enforced via the aegis of the ONE, PRIMARY law on the books prior to any living president's memory or birth...

Statements can mean whatever folks want them to. If Bush wants to stick to certain aspects of the second amendment in his enforcement of the laws regarding guns... he can to whatever extent his "interpretation" of what the founders meant, is.

And then the courts will decide if those "acts of enforcement" are right or wrong. That means, you cannot trust the law to mean what it clearly says, on any level... it is all subject to interpretation on so many levels, that selective enforcement is the best we can hope for. ever.