82 days, 9 hours.

66 DAYS, 23 HOURS

Dying gasps ?

One can only hope, but according to this the practical window of opportunity closes MUCH sooner than the dead line in September.

May the pendlum of payback swing mightly back to normalicy!

Oh yea, the story....

Opinion

Assault weapons ban to expire soon unless voters push renewal

07/07/2004

The sight of Iraqis toting AK-47 assault rifles on the streets of Baghdad is common in the news, and a scary image (lions-tigers-bears...) . Thank goodness America's streets are safe from that kind of firepower, you might be thinking.
Nope, ain't what I am thinking. I'm thinking about how could we get OUR rights back to open carry full automatic AK's here in this Constitutional Republic, the good `ol u.S.A.
THAT is what I am thinking Gomer.

But the 10-year-old federal ban on assault rifles in the United States is about to expire on Sept. 13.

Congress has about 13 working days left to renew the assault weapons ban, otherwise the door will open once more for the manufacture and sale of AK-47s, Uzis, TEC-9s and other assault weapons in America. These are military style weapons that can fire bullets as fast as the shooter pulls the trigger.

The only purpose for these powerful weapons is to kill people as fast as possible.

Propaganda. Heck, it is old tired propaganda!

That's not a pleasant vision for America. These guns have no place in a civil society. They belong only in war zones.

(How many times have high crime areas here in the U.S. been refered to as "war zones?" The lame stream media just loves to use that kinda lingo...)

President Bush vowed to renew the ban when he was campaigning for the White House in 2000.

(LIE, he said he wouuld sign a bill if it reached his desk.)

But Bush hasn't lifted a finger to make it happen.

(Never said he would.)

Now that the time has come to act, he's playing political games as the pro-gun lobby smiles.

Bush says he'll sign a renewal of the ban if Congress passes it. But the speaker of the House reportedly is waiting for the president to ask the House to take action, according to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

(Now there is an accurate source..)

Since the assault weapons ban was first enacted in 1994, the use of such guns in crimes has fallen 66 percent. (???????, according to WHAT study?) Police groups across the nation have asked Congress to renew the ban, and polls show nearly 80 percent of Americans support its renewal,

(total lie)

. . . the Brady organization notes. Yesterday, former presidents Clinton, Carter and Ford (Moe, Currly and Larry?) and together urged Bush to renew the ban.

If you don't want to see the floodgates opened to assault weapons, today is the time to tell the president and your representatives in Congress to make sure the ban is renewed.

The politicians from the White House on down are hypnotized by the big money of the National Rifle Association which opposes the ban.

Hypnotized? Buwhahahahahahahahaha!

But ordinary citizens possess something more valuable than money - your vote. In this presidential election year, every vote is likely to count, just as it did in 2000. Ohio will be one of the key states that tips the balance and decides who will be the next president.

Your vote is your leverage and your ammunition in the battle to renew the federal ban on assault weapons.

Don't let the president and Congress allow the ban to slip away without notice.

Oh I don't think you will have a THING to worry about there Gomer, when the AWB dies it's unatural death it so richly deserves there will be "celibration and merryment throughout the land!"