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My main concern with the "assault weapon" ban is that the definition of "assault weapon" is very flexible and very much open to interpretation. Thus, Bush may be in support of restricting one type of firearm but ends up banning countless others that by any objective reasoning could not be even remotely construed as an "assault weapon." He should come out publicly and say he will support a ban on automatic fire weapons (which have been illegal since the 1930s), since by original definition only firearms that were capable of firing in automatic mode were defined as assault weapons. He will likely lose my vote if he does not make that clear. I would not vote for the Dem, but I have in the past lodged my "protest" votes by pulling the lever for libertarians and constitutionalists, if they are on the ballot, or writing in a candidate (I always vote).