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Latest Democrat Extremism: Guns Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
NewsMax ^ | Wednesday, April 9, 2003 | Wes Vernon

Posted on 05/01/2003 8:41:12 PM PDT by FreedomCalls

Defenders of the Second Amendment are on the lookout for a new Democrat campaign, already attempted in one state, to brand handguns as “weapons of mass destruction.” Washington Gov. Gary Locke, picked by the Democrats to give their response President Bush’s State of the Union address just a couple of months ago, urged his state's Legislature to create six terror-related crimes that would bring guns under the legal definition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Though the legislation offered by the governor and Attorney General Christine Gregoire did not mention specific weapons, Join Together Online, an anti-gun group, reported the legislation defined a weapon of mass destruction as a “device, object, or substance that a person intends to use to cause multiple human deaths.”

Here is how the Seattle Times on March 15 led its story on how the Legislature dealt with the issue: “An anti-terrorism bill has spurred a debate among lawmakers: Is a gun a weapon of mass destruction?”

In response to the governor, several Democrat lawmakers crafted House Bill 1210 to include firearms as weapons of mass destruction.

The state legislators cited last October’s sniper attacks in the District of Columbia area as their foot in the door to try to deprive law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights. The snipers had ties to the Seattle area.

'I Tried to Push the Envelope'

“I tried to push the envelope on this bill to see if it would cover those guys if they had chosen to take out the rest of their aggression in Washington,” said Democrat state Rep. Jeannie Darneille. “And the answer, quite frankly, was no.”

Gun rights groups and Connecticut gun maker Colt Manufacturing said that defining firearms as weapons of mass destruction “is an attempt to regulate gun control” and would permit any gun to be considered a weapon of mass destruction.

To those who disingenuously argued that guns were not so defined in the legislation, Joe Waldron, a lobbyist for Gun Owner’s Action League and other gun rights groups, said it met “everybody else’s definition other than those in Olympia.”

According to an AP dispatch March 19, the Washington House of Representatives passed the anti-terrorism bill, but only after the section listing firearms as weapons of mass destruction was dropped. That change resulted from the insistence of more conservative lawmakers. Though it was a close call, some semblance of rationality ultimately prevailed.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the federal government asked each state to enact some kind of anti-terrorism legislation. Of course, defining handguns as weapons of mass destruction was not something the Bush administration had in mind.

The recent events in the Evergreen State demonstrate the necessity of vigilance to make certain that thinly disguised gun control (by whatever name) does not spread to other state Capitols or to the U.S. Congress.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; democrats; guncontrol; guns; lberals
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If they get this to pass, then that means we HAVE found the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq -- all those AK-47s and Makarovs!
1 posted on 05/01/2003 8:41:12 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
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To: *bang_list
Bang
2 posted on 05/01/2003 8:44:25 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: FreedomCalls
LOL! Your comment is totally hilarious. Show a pile of AK-47s and say here's your WMDs right here, just ask the 'rats.
3 posted on 05/01/2003 8:57:25 PM PDT by coloradan
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To: Travis McGee
Good One. Put them all in one big pile.
4 posted on 05/01/2003 9:31:27 PM PDT by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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To: microgood
It is a well known fact that there is enough .22 Long Rifle ammunition in the state of Texas to kill the entire population of the earth.

If they would only line up politely to take their bullet.

Which is no sillier than this proposal.

5 posted on 05/01/2003 9:37:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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Exactly. Let them pass this legislation. Let them legally define firearms as Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Then we'll have legal grounds to invade Cuba and France.

Methinks that wouldn't be what the liberals on the Left Coast had in mind...

6 posted on 05/01/2003 9:52:15 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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Which is no sillier than this proposal.

Gary Locke is a weapon of mass stupidity.
7 posted on 05/01/2003 9:52:47 PM PDT by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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To: Southack
Since 9-11 that Gadsen on the right has been flying on all Navy ships, and that flag in very high quality is readily available at all Navy exchanges for a reasonable cost. My son has a 3X5 one on his wall.
8 posted on 05/01/2003 9:54:51 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: FreedomCalls
BTW, the 'toon started this back when. No one noticed but he referred to AW as WMDs also.

The idea of piling up the AK47s and saying we got them right here ought to be good.
9 posted on 05/01/2003 9:55:10 PM PDT by snooker
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To: microgood
No doubt!
10 posted on 05/01/2003 9:55:18 PM PDT by Travis McGee (----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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To: FreedomCalls
"...a “device, object, or substance that a person intends to use to cause multiple human deaths.” ...

This could also be used to outlaw all surgical instruments used in abortion clinics.

11 posted on 05/01/2003 9:59:00 PM PDT by Cvengr (0;^))
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To: Travis McGee

I've been flying all three flags since 9/11. Full-sized flags only cost $10 on eBay, fyi.

12 posted on 05/01/2003 10:00:11 PM PDT by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: FreedomCalls
Sweet! After all these years of diligent scheming, I am finally a global menace!
13 posted on 05/01/2003 10:02:54 PM PDT by tortoise
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To: tortoise
Well I say we live just outside of a town that has the most effective gun control law ever passed. A few years ago, Kennesaw passed a law saying every household inside its boundaries MUST own a gun. Crime rates plummeted and have since stayed low. We had one major murder since then and it occurred in a hotel. This little experiment worked. Perhaps Britian should adapt a "everyone owns a gun" policy instead of just letting burglars get away with it.

Jean
14 posted on 05/01/2003 10:11:34 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I support FR monthly; and ABBCNNBCBS (continue to) Lie!)
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To: Southack
Thanks. I just moved into my new house and going to get a big flagpole.
15 posted on 05/01/2003 10:14:56 PM PDT by microgood (They will all die......most of them.)
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Okay, if we're expanding the current definition, so are cars, hamburgers, doctors, people, whales, bananas, ladders, bathtubs, baseballs.....
16 posted on 05/01/2003 10:17:50 PM PDT by ellery
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To: Robert A. Cook, PE
Preaching to the choir. :-)
17 posted on 05/01/2003 10:40:25 PM PDT by tortoise
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To: FreedomCalls
The same "liberals" who scoff at the possibility of Osama Bin Ladin or Saddam Hussein having WMD (even though Saddam has killed thousands of people with chemical weapons) are the very same people who whip themselves into a frenzy about the possibility of you owning a handgun!
18 posted on 05/02/2003 3:53:47 AM PDT by Wilhelm Tell (Lurking since 1997!)
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To: FreedomCalls
Defenders of the Second Amendment are on the lookout for a new Democrat campaign, already attempted in one state, to brand handguns as “weapons of mass destruction.”
Man, this isn't "a new Democrat campaign", this is straight out of Kofi Annan's playbook! He has been pushing for small arms as weapons of mass destruction for some time now.
Some people need a clue big time!

We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century
IV. Freedom from fear
F. Pursuing arms reductions
Small arms
238. The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as “weapons of mass destruction”. Yet there is still no global non-proliferation regime to limit their spread, as there is for chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.

http://www.cdinet.com/cdiweb/print-portfolio1.html
We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century
In early 2000 we edited and produced this high profile publication for the United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan.

And this "person" and the UN had to have been batting it around for some time in their little Socialist minds...
Since 1995, special attention has been devoted to the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons, which have been the weapons of choice in recent conflicts on the UN's agenda.
Not a damned thing "new" about any of this, except to the uninformed!

19 posted on 05/02/2003 4:14:38 AM PDT by philman_36
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To: FreedomCalls
This is ridiculous! Everyone knows that box cutters are weapons of mass destruction!

(Is Ted Kennedy behind this one too? Maybe we could use a little Mass. destruction!)
20 posted on 05/02/2003 4:17:04 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.)
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