NYT, you can kiss my a$$. Obviously, most of the rest of America feels the same way.
Posted on 04/27/2009 7:46:42 AM PDT by TADSLOS
THE evolution in public policy concerning the manufacture, sale and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons like AK-47s, AR-15s and Uzis has been very disturbing. Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and I all supported a ban on these formidable firearms, and one was finally passed in 1994.
When the 10-year ban was set to expire, many police organizations — including 1,100 police chiefs and sheriffs from around the nation — called on Congress and President George W. Bush to renew and strengthen it. But with a wink from the White House, the gun lobby prevailed and the ban expired.
I have used weapons since I was big enough to carry one, and now own two handguns, four shotguns and three rifles, two with scopes. I use them carefully, for hunting game from our family woods and fields, and occasionally for hunting with my family and friends in other places. We cherish the right to own a gun and some of my hunting companions like to collect rare weapons. One of them is a superb craftsman who makes muzzle-loading rifles, one of which I displayed for four years in my private White House office.
But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen or go to a school or workplace to see how many victims we can accumulate before we are finally shot or take our own lives. That’s why the White House and Congress must not give up on trying to reinstate a ban on assault weapons, even if it may be politically difficult.
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FU Jimmah
and FUBO.
I certainly have no desire to conduct any of those activities either. Why do you ascribe those aberrant behaviors to assault weapon ownership? Perhaps it is you and those views about gun ownership that is aberrant.
No consideration given to the fact that his continued existence relied/relies heavily on being surrounded by many men carrying not just AWs, but outright-banned full-autos.
Hypocrite.
This man is an embarrasment to Southerners everywhere....
Sounds like he's loaded for, er, wabbit!
Oh well.
NYT, you can kiss my a$$. Obviously, most of the rest of America feels the same way.
So, if you have an assault weapon, you will want to kill people? What if you want to kill people with a revolver, is that not possible?...I think it’s the person that does the killing, not the weapon.
Wasn’t the NYT just belching about Cheany’s “unprecedented” criticism of policy?
So, when Obama's "security force" comes to disarm you, you won't be equally armed and the thugs will prevail. You have the right to make that choice, but not to force it on me!
Hunting wabbits I suppose?
What a Maroon
Ahh, the leftist logic of narcissism.
"I don't need one, therefore nobody needs one!"
I thought mentally ill people weren't supposed to own firearms.
Once an idiot...........
MY CHOICE = FREEDOM!!
“But none of us wants to own an assault weapon, because we have no desire to kill policemen.”
But some of us might want to own such weapons as a deterrence, psychological, physically and otherwise against an overweening government gone mad with power and arrogance.
A government controlled by socialists, communists and other leftwing dictators bent on eliminating traditional American rights, security and freedoms.
You know, kinda like Obammy, Reid, Pelosi, Conyers, Leahey, Waters, Boxer, Sanders, Schumer et al. You know,...but the list is too long to post here.
Billy WAS the smarter of the two!!!!
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