Feinstein and Schumer Welcome President Bush's Support of Assault Weapons Ban

senate.gov ^ | April 16, 2003 | Democrats Feinstein and Schumer

[ThirstyMan]

I was merely answering the basic criticism that governments with tanks, jets and nuclear weapons can instantaneously squash rebels armed only with small arms, rockets and grenades.

OK and thanks for the clarification. There is a role for small arms in any defense or offense. The way the attack waves have worked in the last two Gulf Wars has been to apply so much military might ["soften"] that by the time their use is appropriate, to pull the trigger seems futile. The assumption that the American military could be engaged to wage this kind of war against its own citizens is a rediculous assumption reserved for the conspiracy nuts, imho.

[ez]

There is no upside to Bush's maintaining this "promise". He is doing so because he must honestly believe black guns are evil and have no place in modern America.

I will vote for him anyway as I have no choice. Any Democrat would be worse on RKBA.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I just honestly disagree with your analysis. If you searched my history, you would find me both a passionate advocate of the Second Amendment and a strong Bush supporter. I refuse to believe he thinks black guns are evil...damn, he's from Texas.

I think a lot of soccer moms and mushy moderates who ARE for abortion voted for Bush because his "compassionate conservatism" made him seem unthreatening, and they wanted the White House sterilized and the Oval Office sink replaced. I also think he would lose many of their votes if he gave Chris Matthews et al a chance to hammer him for a year over how he broke a campaign promise "just like Dadday."

Not to mention, I don't think he'll lose that many votes on the right, as your last two sentences indicate.

Thank you for a civil discourse...

[TLBSHOW]

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[votelife]

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[Little Ray]

So we can't discipline our own, 'cause we might get sumpthin' worse, boo hoo.

Fine, we get a Democrat. Its getting hard to tell the difference anyway.

[Monty22]

Why bump this? It's almost a year old now. Any news on the status of these bills? If Delay says no, it'll be no I figure.

[votelife]

I bumped it for 2 reasons. One, everyone on this site got really agitated last year. It's been a year, nothing's happened. So maybe Delay has axed it.

Or it still could come back, in which case a few well placed calls couldn't hurt.