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Let Freedom Ring,
Posted on 10/06/2004 1:21:03 PM PDT by grassboots.org
During the Vice Presidential debate, Senator John Edwards asked how Vice President Dick Cheney could possibly oppose laws such as one preventing "plastic" guns that can avoid metal detectors. The bill in question was written and supported by the NRA and supported by gun control groups. Senator Edwards implied that only someone far outside the mainstream could vote "no," and Edwards obviously wanted to use this vote to question Cheney's seriousness in dealing with terrorism.
Dick Cheney was one of only a handful of congressmen who voted against the bill when it came up in 1986. Yet, it was bad law. The law provided placebo cures for imaginary ills.
The hysteria over "plastic guns" arose in the mid-1980s when the Austrian company Glock began exporting pistols to the United States. Labeled as "terrorist specials" by the press, fear spread that their plastic frame and grip would make them invisible to metal detectors. Rarely mentioned was that Glocks still had over a pound of metal. Anyone who has ever been through a metal detector at an airport should understand how silly this fear was.
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Apparently, Edwards claimed VP Cheney voted to allow folks to own plastic guns (or did he mean toy guns)
"Senator John Edwards asked how Vice President Dick Cheney could possibly oppose laws such as one preventing "plastic" guns that can avoid metal detectors."
This is typical liberal-speak. The usual line "of course we all agree that ...." prefaces many remarks eminating from the libs. It was so typical of the underlying assumption that they are always correct in their positions
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Let Freedom Ring,
Thank you, Mr. Brower
The same way that he could oppose laws to prevent space aliens from firing dematerializing/rematerializing quantum torpedos into the Earth's core.
There are no dematerializing/rematerializing quantum torpedos.
Joe,
Did you see what happened to me last night? It's a firearm-related story that you might be interested in.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1236589/posts
But are there dematerializing/rematerializing quantum cannons?
"That punk pulled a Glock 7 on me! You know what that is? It's a porcelain gun made in Germany. It doesn't show up on your airport X-ray machines, and it cost more than you make here in a month."- Bruce Willis, Die Hard 2
Can we call this an Edwards "Glock N Spiel" moment
How about, "It's no surprise that someone as lacking in maturity and experience as Edwards was taken in by an urban legend."
OTH there are also claims that there is no such thing as a "german porcelain gun", but there is 
No, I hadn't seen that story. You did good. Got the drop on the intruder, had the situation in control from the get-go, and, as others pointed out, you maintained the proper degree of control to avoid a "bad shoot". Not an easy thing to do, and something that you never know how you'll do at until you actually experience it. Now you know.
I've drawn down people four times in my life, twice against hostile perps, and twice against people I knew who were doing silly things. One was my brother, who was breaking into the house we shared because he had forgotten his key. I had him dead to rights before I realized who it was, and the only thing he had to say was, quite casually, "Well, you got me before I got in the door"... !
shhhhh... we don't want them to know about those...
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