Bush Backs Renewing Assault Weapons Ban

Washington Post ^ | April 12, 2003 | Unknown

[Dane]

If Bush supports this ban, I will give money to Hillary!

Better to meet the enemy head on than to be betrayed from within

LOL! Talk about knee jerk key board commando conservatives. There's a big difference between 04 and 94. In 94 the House was controlled by the dems. In 99 after Columbine, Feinstein and Schumer pushed a draconian gun control bill through the Senate and it died in the House.

The same will probably happen here. Oh BTW, when you bring up CFR paralell, that was one of the biggest mistakes the demo's ever pushed. They are lagging in money and the ad bans will probably be overturned by SCOTUS.

[Teacher317]

send him a link to this thread, and all of the gun forum discussion threads that are reacting to this story.

(Funny, isn't it, that the Washington Post motivates us more than Fox News?)

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Bush cannot afford to Pi$$ off 5 million voting NRA members."

True, but the NRA will cave in and never fight against a Republican. They will support him against someone who is "worse", never mind that standing up to their masters once in a while might actually make the NRA more effective than compromise facilitators.

I hope Bush is looking forward to some ranch time. I will look forward to browsing the third party options, because I'd rather throw away my vote than vote for someone who has no comprehension of liberty.

His "would sign if submitted" position is all about NON-leadership.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Look, if the supposedly best republican we've been able to find in decades stabs us in the back, I prefer to get the worst of the democrat/socialists in and get on with the inevitable civil war.

If the Constitution is meaningless, there is no point in living on.

[JudgemAll]

Too late. Too many people still aren't over Buchannan or Keyes. I guess they'll just vote Democrat, or screw up the election by voting for a third party candidate who hasn't got a chance.

It is a pity that they expect Bush to be perfect, instead of realizing that Bush can make mistakes because his transparency compared to the left makes him capable of repenting from his mistakes. People need to steer away from teh fascist perfectionists. There is a lesson in Christian paradox in here and moral clarity. If this nation goes again for a self serving and self cleansing Perot's, Buchanans or Keyes who throws stones around while they sin, we simply are not cut for it and may have to learn it the hard way, getting Hillaries and Kerries elected instead to destroy us and cover up the truth.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I already wrote my Senators and Representative about this. The Republican congressman gave a vague reply thanking me for my support of the 2nd Amendment. Talent and Bond did not reply.

I had bad feeling then, and it is getting worse.

Why on earth would Bush want to validate The Rapist?

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Bush needs to take a lesson from England and Australia where crime is up"

The second amendment is NOT about crime prevention!

It is about preventing, deterring, and fighting government tyranny. Bush is perfectly following the tyrant line on this one.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Worth repeating:

"...if this bill is extended or replaced by another, I wash my hands of him, even if it is raining gold and the entire world is singing happy somgs of peace. I would stay with him if the economy is still struggling, if we suffer reverses in the WOT, if my own neighborhood was blown up by terrorists, but if he turns against the Constituition he's gone."

[Lexington Green]

Dear W,
You're either with the Constitution or you're against it.

[Dane]

That excuse has been exhausted.

Really? If Gore was in there today he probably would have fired a couple of missles at camel's butts in Afghanistan and declared victory.

The Taliban would be still in control of Afghanistan and saddam would be sipping margarita's with Uday along the Tigris.

Also think before you post, there are many nuances in politics and this Wash Post report has done it's job. Giving knee jerk conservatives a case of the vapors.

[heckler]

Single issue voters voting for Ralph Nader kept Al Gore from being our current Commander in Chief.

Can any one of you truly say that we will be better off if the CIC in 2005 is a Democrat because of single issue voters on the right?

WE have the power to keep the bill off of his desk. Use it.

[longtermmemmory]

what about congress? could its renewal be bogged down in the committees?

[Teacher317]

Oh BTW, when you bring up CFR paralell, that was one of the biggest mistakes the demo's ever pushed. They are lagging in money

SO you're all for unConstitutional bills as long as they give the GOP an advantage? How principled of you.

and the ad bans will probably be overturned by SCOTUS.

GWB is relying on others to do the right thing for him in both cases. If not Congress, then SCOTUS. Gee, what a great leader. /sarcasm>

[chnsmok]

Frantically trying to keep together the tattered shreds of the Constitution is being a fascist perfectionist?

[JudgemAll]

By the way, this came from the Washington Post, happy to split us and lie to us. There is more to it than this.

[Teacher317]

You don't read very deeply do you? I noted "domestically" he is behind the curve and failing us. Overseas, he's doing great. Why can't we find someone who can actually be strong at home and abroad? I'd like it if he supported freedom for Americans as strongly as he asserts it for Iraqis!

[The Coopster]

OK, Eeyore. Have fun over at DU.

[Teacher317]

Myself and others have posted links to where he made this promise long ago. Exactly where is the WP lying-and-dividing in those 4 sentences?

[Dane]

GWB is relying on others to do the right thing for him in both cases. If not Congress, then SCOTUS. Gee, what a great leader. /sarcasm>

Actually SCOTUS will finally put a spike through the ad bans once and for all.

But you go ahead with you rants without taking into consideration of the past makeup of previous congresses and total lack of knowledge of political warfare.

You may wish away political warfare, but alas it does exist and it would do you well trying to understand it rather than wishing for a perfect political utopia.

[Teacher317]

Myself... I have... bad teacher.