Posted on 07/23/2004 6:28:56 AM PDT by kattracks
(CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment group says Democrats are showing their true colors by inviting a "rabidly anti-gun" lawmaker to address the Democratic National Convention next week.The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said Rep. Carolyn McCarthy will have a "plum opportunity" to push for legislation extending the ban on so-called assault weapons - a ban that will expire in mid-Sept.
"For months, Democrats have been out hustling gun owners for their votes, trying to portray themselves as pro-Second Amendment," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. "Giving McCarthy a microphone proves Democrats haven't abandoned their failed gun control policies."
CCRKBA notes that McCarthy's husband was murdered by a "deranged racist gunman" named Colin Ferguson, who also wounded her son in a shooting on a commuter train in 1993. But Ferguson did not use an "assault weapon" in that crime. He used a handgun he purchased in California -- a state with some of the most restrictive gun laws in the nation.
"So much for John Kerry's pheasant hunting and skeet shooting photo ops with borrowed firearms, or any other lip service that Democrats are offering gun owners back in their districts," Gottlieb said.
"Allowing McCarthy a forum to campaign against the firearms rights of millions of law-abiding Americans in the middle of their national convention should tell firearms owners all they need to know about the true Democrat agenda."
CCRKBA is urging all gun owners to listen to McCarthy's speech and the applause it elicits from the party leadership - "and then decide whether Democrats deserve to be trusted with their Second Amendment rights."
2-3 Supremes appointed by hanoi john...stroke of the pen, law of the land.......bye bye 2 amendment.
The fat lady hasn't sung yet, and lets save the celebration until she does. If nothing else, the gun grabbers are sneaky. Not to mention underhanded and lying.
Not if it's attached on the Senate floor to something else. That's more or less how we got the machine gun ban. Even the AWB ban itself was part of "Bill's Crime", AKA the 1994 Omnibus Crime Control Bill ( Crime Control Act after it was passed) . It was title XI of that act, rather than a stand alone bill, although like the AWB extension, it started that way.
I know, I'm just trying to be positive.
All they need is some real or imagined crisis.
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