As I Predicted, George W. Bush Is Backing Bill Clinton's Gun Ban

Toogood Reports ^ | April 15, 2003 | By Chuck Baldwin

[Uncle Bill]

As I Predicted, George W. Bush
Is Backing Bill Clinton's Gun Ban

TooGood Reports
By Chuck Baldwin
Chuck Baldwin Website
April 15, 2003

In this column dated December 17, 2002, I predicted that President G.W. Bush would support the so-called assault weapons ban first promoted by former President Bill Clinton and Sen. Diane Feinstein back in 1994. Interestingly enough, the gun ban became law on the strength of a tie-breaking vote by then Vice President Al Gore. The ban is scheduled to sunset next year, but Bush is joining Clinton and Gore in supporting an extension.

Presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said, "The president supports the current law (the Clinton gun ban), and he supports reauthorization of the current law."

This must come as quite a blow to people such as the leaders of the National Rifle Association who campaigned heavily for Bush touting him as a "pro-gun" candidate. Since his election, the NRA and others have repeatedly reaffirmed their support for Bush, because he is "pro-gun." Well, now the mask is off!

I have tried to warn my readers that Bush is not a true conservative. He is not pro-life; he is not pro-family; he is not pro-Constitution. And now we know he is not pro-gun.

Instead of reversing the miserable policies of Clinton/Gore, Bush is helping to harden the cement around those policies. The gun issue is no exception.

The so-called assault weapons ban was the benchmark piece of legislation reflecting the anti-gun policies of people such as Clinton, Gore, Feinstein, and New York Senator Charles Schumer. It was also the number one target of the NRA. In fact, the NRA all but promised their supporters that a Bush presidency would help reverse this Draconian gun ban. Instead, Bush is pushing Congress to extend the ban.

A bill to reauthorize the gun ban will be introduced by Senator Feinstein in the coming weeks. It must pass both chambers of Congress to reach the President's desk. The best chance of stopping it will be in the House of Representatives. However, in order to defeat this bill, it must resist the power and influence of the White House. This will be no small task.

Not only is Bush betraying the pro-gun voters who helped elect him, he is breathing new life into a nearly dead anti-gun movement. Most political analysts credit Bush's pro-gun image as the chief reason he defeated Al Gore in the 2000 election. They also credit the pro-gun image of the Republican Party for helping them to achieve impressive wins in the 2002 congressional elections.

Now, Bush is giving new credibility to anti-gun zealots such as Schumer and Feinstein and is helping to reinvigorate the anti-gun momentum that had all but been put on ice.

However, the real question will be, "Will pro-gun conservatives continue to support Bush?" Bush is every bit the "Teflon President" that Clinton was. Conservatives seem willing to overlook anything he does, no matter how liberal or unconstitutional it may be. Will they overlook this, also?

If you truly believe in the Second Amendment and are willing to do something about it, I suggest you go to the Gun Owners of America website. They have a quick link set up which allows people an opportunity to conveniently send email to the White House about this issue. Go to the gun ban "alert" button. From there you can voice your disapproval with the President's decision to betray his constituents by supporting this new round of gun control.

Once again, the ball of freedom and constitutional government is in the court of the American people. Will they keep the ball and do something with it, or will they hand it off to the neo-conservatives at the White House? We'll see.

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PLEASE Don't Sit out 2004, EVEN IF Bush signs the AW ban extention

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"That’s why I’m for instant background checks at gun shows. I’m for trigger locks."
George W. Bush - Source: St. Louis debate Oct 17,2000.

MORE INJUSTICE ON THE WAY - Bush GUN CONTROL
"Gene Healy, a Cato Institute scholar, recently provided a thorough exploration of the unintended consequences of one law, the new Bush-Ashcroft plan to federalize gun crimes, known as the Project Safe Neighborhoods program. The unintended consequences of this law are frightening."
NOTE: Same Article in Washington Times.

There Goes the Neighborhood: The Bush-Ashcroft Plan to "Help" Localities Fight Gun Crime, by Gene Healy

"W. Wimps Out on Guns"
The Bush package includes several pet causes of the gun-control lobby, including $75 million for gun locks; $15.3 million for 113 new federal attorneys to serve as full-time gun prosecutors; and $19.1 million to expand a program by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms aimed at preventing youths from obtaining guns. Although Bush stressed that he simply wants to "enforce existing laws," the fine print of Project Safe echoes the gun-grabbing Left's call to ban the importation of high-capacity ammunition clips."

Project Safe Neighborhoods, A Closer Look

LAURA BUSH:
"During her San Diego speech, for instance, she said nothing about the school shooting that occurred 20 miles away in El Cajon the day before, although in a television interview she condemned it, adding that she thinks more gun control laws are needed.

"I think that's very important," she said when asked by CNN whether stronger gun laws are needed."
Source.

EMERSON & THE SECOND AMENDMENT

A Gutless Supreme Court Decision - Gun Control

Republican Leadership Help Push Gun Control

Bush's Assault On Second Amendment

NEA Resource Text Guide In Regards To The Extreme Right - Where Do Your Kids Go To School?
"The radical right says it is pro-life but it bitterly opposes gun control legislation"

or

A Problem With Guns?

Thanks for that Patriot Act George

[Mulder]

Presidents have got to move close to the middle to have any chance at winning an election.

This is liberal crap spewed by democrats, RINOs, and the media.

In the last 30 years, conservatives have done very well in elections (Reagan in 80 and 84 and Newt in 94). Liberals have had their clocks cleaned in landslides on several occasions, while you have to go back 40 years to find the last time a hard-core conservative was defeated at the national level.

"Moving to the middle" may work for the demoncrats, since they are trying to portray themselves as conservatives, but it doesn't work too well for Republicans when they try to act like liberals by "moving to the middle".

[rwfromkansas]

The proper word is "bye."

[OOPisforLiberals]

Read it an weep. Literally.

http://www.isra.org/

[Dan from Michigan]

While I'd like an AR-15 when I'm able to afford it, the thing that scares me most about a so called Assault weapons(I had that term) ban is the fact that my evil "Pocket Rocket", "Sniper Rifle", and High powered "Scattergun" is next.

[Fred Mertz]

Hi Dan,

One of my replies got yanked. I don't know why.

Anyway, Bush is a good man, but other powerful men pull his strings.

I might move up to the UP.

[Yankee]

"The fact that a small percentage of people may use something for evil purposes is NOT a license to ban it for use by ALL."

Can I use that on the tobacco and alcohol threads where several "freedom loving" Freepers regularly post things like "I don't drink and cigarettes stink, so they should restrict their use and tax the hell out of both of them"?

[the irate magistrate]

Who's Gimli?

Hi Deb.

[P_A_I]

Well, well, well.....the Ship Of Fools is fully manned again, under sail on the high seas again......and heading for the rocks again, as it did in every year since 1956, when we liked Ike.
This is a nice gathering of misguided conservatives, DUers and Table Talkers pretending to be conservatives, and assorted other dregs who want to vote their party into power regardless of what it does to our country.

[Cultural Jihad]

Ho hum. More anarcho-militia nutcase drivel from Avuncular Bill.

[LurkerNoMore!]

Fred, that is practically Wisconsin. Try Texas first, 'k?

[Mulder]

It may come as a surprise to you but there are some people who are very conservative, yet know nothing about guns.

I think this is true, which is all the more reason for Republicans in leadership positions to eductate people about it instead of pandering to a dumbed-downed electorate.

Real leaders inform and persuade as Reagan did.

[Cultural Jihad]

http://www.lordoftherings.net/film/cast/ca_jrhys.html

[Deb]

Those are your big examples? Good Lord, we've got NOOOOOOO problems.

What a lame "list".

CFR has been a problem...how? It's only hurt the Democrats and when the Supremes get a hold of it, it's GONZO.

You have a problem with money to Africa for AIDS, with all the qualifiers and accountability attached? Not me.

I don't know what you're "land Hindenburgs" are, but I have a feeling they're no threat to the Republic either.

[frostbit]

"triple those penalties and I'll be happy"

I'm with you, but it still doesn't get the *%&#$ prosecuters to charge the offenses. Not that I'm bitter about it.

It's actually a pretty strong law the way it is, with the "Aiding and abetting" statutes. If 4 people are in the car, only one guy has a gun and does the drive by shooting, everyone can get charged with the 10-year mandatory, in addition to the assault, etc.

Again, the problem is getting these things prosecuted.

[Consort]

The unoriginal disrupters are on the prowl tonight. Must be a full moon.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

...Bush is going to lose these same 13 voters who show up on every gun related thread to profess they're leaving the party....

Don't underestimate the gun vote, amigo. Gore did that, to his cost.

[dogbyte12]

Well, people can grab pitch forks and torches and go serenade Pat Buchanan by his window if they are that unhappy with W.

[Joe Hadenuf]

I've read that he's giving lip service to this while knowing that Tom Delay will nuke it.

Could you post a source for this?

[ez]

Your posts make the most sense on this nonsensical thread. There's a whole lotta people here who apparently know very little about everything, and aren't afraid to show it.

Bush is not a fool. He promised "to support existing law" when it comes to gun control. He will keep that promise and hope Congress kills the ban.

As for those who are arguing that the ban is good, may their chains rest lightly upon them.

[Mini-14]

I've read that he's giving lip service to this while knowing that Tom Delay will nuke it. That's the political calculation.

I read his lips, and not his hips. His lips tells me that he supports this attack on the Constitution and my rights.