“Before the dark days of the Clinton administration, few federal government officials had done more to damage Second Amendment rights than William Bennett, the so-called “drug czar” under President George H.W. Bush. In March 1989, Bennett set off a national panic by pushing the first Bush administration to ban the import of so-called “assault weapons.”
It started with the Bushies and just accelerated.
Each idiot in office is worse than the moron before him.
The Presidential succession is beginning to be reminscent of Chapters out of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the ROman Empire”
“Czar Kerlikowske’s first major opportunity to promote gun bans may be based on Mexico.
The Mexican government and many of its American media allies are busy blaming American gun owners for the carnage and demanding a host of restrictions on American gun rights: “assault weapons” bans, gun registration, gun-owner licensing, special restrictions on gun shows, gun purchase rationing and so on. Supposedly, these restrictions would prevent guns from being smuggled from the United States into Mexico, supplying firearms for the narcotraficantes. “
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They’re really pushing this excuse! Don’t believe it!
Right off the bat, the premise is wrong. The NAFBPO keeps a good eye on this issue. Here’s an article they sent today about this.
Mexico’s weapons cache stymies tracing
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1102ap_lt_drug_war_weapons.html
[snip]About a third of the guns submitted for tracing in 2007 were sold by licensed U.S. dealers.
In all, the military has 305,424 confiscated weapons locked in vaults, just a fraction of those used by criminals in Mexico, where an offensive by drug cartels against the military has killed more than 10,750 people since December 2006. But each weapon is a clue to how the cartels are getting arms, and possibly to the traffickers that brought them here.
The U.S. has acknowledged that many of the rifles, handguns and ammunition used by the cartels come from its side of the border. Mexican gun laws are strict, especially compared to those in most U.S. border states.
The Mexican government has handed over information to U.S. authorities to trace 12,073 weapons seized in 2008 crimes - particularly on guns from large seizures or notorious crimes.
But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which handles the U.S. investigations, is at the mercy of local Mexican police for the amount and quality of the information.
When was the so called AWB passed? 1994?
Have you ever read up on the gun owners protections act? Signed back in 1986? Oh it was singed by a so called pro gun Republican. It ban machine guns from public ownership. The only federal gun control ban still in effect.
You've read my mind. Seems the current 'inhabitant' is a hybrid of Gore and Kerry- something we'd have already dealt with had either of these two goobers been elected, but inevitable just the same.
Hard to imagine someone worse than Obama on the horizon but if the trend continues it's almost a certainty.
I propose the solution is to go outside the traditional, Northeastern, leadership incubators that produce these defective 'statesmen' and place the task of leading America in the hands of 'regular' Americans.
I'm so sick of the political drooling that passes for discourse. There's the American way and the un-American way. People simply need (media watchdogs) to know which path is being taken and yet, it's blurred beyond recognition. Not good.