I can assure you, this has more than rankled me.
I am a longtime Bush supporter. You can check my posts going back to 2,000 and not find any Bush bashing on my part. It has pained me that he let me down on immigration and I said so, but I sucked it up and held my water.
Shooting me in the back over my 2A rights, whowever, might be too much. If we lose this SCOTUS decision with GWB's help, I'll be more than bitter and certainly not forgiving. BTW, I'm being mild here and not posting my true anger over this.
I share your pain and admire your reserved expression which I find necessary to do also.
“Shooting me in the back over my 2A rights, whowever, might be too much. If we lose this SCOTUS decision with GWB’s help, I’ll be more than bitter and certainly not forgiving. BTW, I’m being mild here and not posting my true anger over this.”
Perhaps they fear that the court will actually rule for the 2A as the Founding Fathers intended. Or more likely they are making a bunch of back door deals to get the ruling they want.
More likely all these Big government folks fear free citizens would hamper their agenda for a global socialist utopia.
Welcome home.
I am a longtime Bush supporter. You can check my posts going back to 2,000 and not find any Bush bashing on my part. It has pained me that he let me down on immigration and I said so, but I sucked it up and held my water.
Shooting me in the back over my 2A rights, whowever, might be too much. If we lose this SCOTUS decision with GWB's help, I'll be more than bitter and certainly not forgiving. BTW, I'm being mild here and not posting my true anger over this.
I think most of us here on FR share your pain on this. After voting for Bush twice, I have never felt so betrayed.
I wrote snail-mail letters to both Bush and Clement.
The justification in the brief for a lower level of scrutiny is extremely weak. It basically just ignores the Second Amendment. I hope that my request that they withdraw this brief doesn't result in them submitting a stronger one.
The only justification for suggesting that "reasonable regulation" isn't an infringement was one early court decision which permitted a ban on concealed carry. One judge's decision is hardly sufficient to outweigh the Founder's intentions to bar infringements.
I recommend that everybody communicate their dissatisfaction with this brief.
I’m thoroughly pissed. And you can quote me.
A pox on the "capitulate at any cost" a-holes...
For those of us who live and work in D.C. it has a really bothersome “let them eat cake” quality. We note that the Pres would undoubtedly be upset if Crawford, Texas, adopted a gun ban. I have been three times assaulted in the District in situations where a sidearm would have been very useful.
Its been how many years since Bush’s election and after how many betrayls on issues ranging from fiscal responsibility to education to Harriet Miers to immigration...and only NOW are you no longer “sucking it up???” Sorry but zero sympathy for your disillunsionment. Your passivity enabled actions such as this one. Perhaps if you had raised your voice back in 02 when the NCLB was co authored with Ted Kennedy or in 03 with the passage of the Medicare act or in 04 when his billions of taxpayer dollars was sent to fight AIDS in Africa, a difference might have been effected. Or to put it another way, since he was scorning all sorts of conservative values what made you think he wouldn’t hit yours at some point??
I lost Bush on immigration after seriously supporting him thru two elections with time, street work and money.
He acan kiss my butt.
If it hadn’t been for 9-11 and his appropriate responses, he’d be an even lamer duck than he is.
but oh boy....look at our choices to replace him....gawd
I also have openly supported Bush since his nomination, but this is the last straw. Bush is stabbing his staunchest supporters in the back. I can no longer support him or give him a positive job approval.
If you combine the two issues (illegal aliens and this anti-2A crapola) the case can now be made that the Republican President of the U.S.A. is allowing the invasion of this nation and is trying to remove from the civilian population their ability to fend it off.