[Dec31,1999]

Besides, the President knows that when the next shoot-out occurs, and it will occur, that if he vetoes this bill, he will lose a lot of political momentum. The democrats will blame it all on him and the soccer moms, feminists, etc., will make him look bad to mainstream America.

That's why he let CFR pass, and why he WILL let this pass, if need be. He has no choice. Most voters in America have no idea of the importance of gun rights. They are not Freepers or historians.

Therefore it is up to us to contact our reps in droves to prevent the passage of the bill in question, in order to stop further incrementalism upon the right to keep and bear arms.

[Travis McGee]

You nailed it. So does your tagline.

[Kenno]

Where do you get the idea he'll lose out politically if he vetoes this bill? Gun owners not only vote, they decide elections. There are far more union Democrats who will vote Republican only for the 2nd Amendment than there are Republicans who will vote Democrat for gun control. If not for the gun issue, Gore would have won Florida, Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Arizona, and Missouri; he also would have blown Bush away in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, and Maine, enabling him to save time spent campaigning in those states and thus to win a few more states that, in the real election, went handily to Bush. (Georgia, Colorado, and Louisiana, perhaps). The gun issue turned what would have been a Gore landslide into a close victory for Bush. Do you think Terry McAuliffe avoids the gun issue out of courtesy for Bush? I think not!

I've never understood the thought that Republicans' supporting gun control helps them somehow. The logic seems to be that they thereby become more moderate; the problem is that they're becoming more moderate in ways that don't resonate with voters. When you have a moderate Democrat who's anti-right-to-work and pro-gun, he's less likely to vote for a pro-right-to-work, anti-gun Republican than for a pro-right-to-work, pro-gun Republican. Follow? Have some faith in the American people! Most of them aren't gun grabbers, regardless of what Dan Rather says.

That much said, I wish someone other than Chuck Baldwin had made this point. His PCP-addled mind has already come up with some psychotic theories that Bush is trying to take over the world, so his support for getting rid of this tyrannical law hurts our case by making us all seem to be wackos like him.