Posted on 08/01/2004 7:48:27 AM PDT by Stew Padasso
I hope that they do. Then we will see how far that gets the lying Rat party.
It cost them the election last time.
"The president supports extending the ban but believes fundamentally that we should be supporting the gun laws that are on the books," said Terry Holt, a Bush campaign spokesman.
Should he sign an extension, it will cost Bush the election this time.
And, HOW many crimes are committed with assault weapons each year? The last 12 years? Can they even define what an assault weapon is?
Assault is an action, not a device.
Bush said he'll sign it IF IT REACHES HIS DESK...he didn't say he was going to move heaven and earth to get it there. Brillian political divide-and-conquer strategy by Dubya.
Political games instead of a principled argument. It is the way DC works.
Ugh! You define what the makes the law. Anything produced after the fact that does not have componants that make it illegal, is therefore LEGAL & is not "going around" the law/ban.
Cars cannot have slick tires....that's illegal. My car has street legal Bridgestones...have I found a way around the ban?
God forbid that politicians should engage in politics.
Others believe the ornaments make the weapon.
Frankly, folks with that sort of attitude should be prohibited from owning or possessing any sort of gun.
We could do a universal survey. Go door to door and find out what the folks behind the doors believe, then make a "banned owners list" to be published everywhere so that no one accidentally sells or gives them a gun.
Not an issue this time around.
We are at war
Especially when dealing with something as basic as self defense (2A). It should be a free-for-all, right?
"We are at war"
No kidding? Well lets just forget about the last line of defense then.
Bring it on!
Just saying it simply is not one of the major issues in this election. No real reason to spend any energy one way or another on it.
Heck, we are going against 2 Senators who voted against providing weapons to troops they sent to Afganistan in Iraq! These two have fundamental moral problems.
"We don't support a simple renewal of the ban, because what has happened in the assault-weapon marketplace is that virtually every gun banned in the '94 law has come back in the market in so-called post-ban configuration," she said.
Manufacturers removed the military-style features listed by the ban to make their weapons legal. Instead of a renewal, her group wants a major expansion of the law.
This statement is proof that they don't want to ban military style weapons, because military style weapons as they defined them continue to be illegal. They want to ban ALL weapons.
If only Carolyn McCarthy, the self professed devout Catholic, had voted for the ban on partial birth abortion, she might have some credibility.
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