[therut]

I hope like H--l that this law gets flushed. This would be a turning point in the gun debate in this country. We need soooo bad to get this stupid gun law off the books and show that a gun law can be repealed. I know Bush said he supported this in his pre-election debate but I hoped that he would somehow change his mind on supporting it again or I hoped that the congress would let it die. He was still better than Gore who believed that there is no individual right at all to own firearms. If this passes I don't know what I will do in the next election I will have to think hard about how I vote. Another thing I challenge all to sign up for the NRA or other gun group. I signed up 7 new members this year paid for it myself. If each member in the NRA would dish out 35.00 and sign someone up even your spouse it would be noticed the membership increasing to over 8 million members. Bite the bullet and JUST DO IT. Don't forget the women in your life. My 18 year old niece could not wait to put her NRA bumper sticker on her truck.

[nygoose]

He was still better than Gore who believed that there is no individual right at all to own firearms.

If only what you say were true. To date, I have never heard President Bush say that. I know that Attorney General Ashcroft wrote that in a letter, but I have never heard him mention it again. Has the Bush Justice Department ever filed a brief stating that it believes that it is an individual right?