Posted on 05/12/2003 4:56:44 PM PDT by OOPisforLiberals
All you anti-AWB people : listen closely. The "extended" assault weapons ban would ban TONS of guns, including ALL semi-automatic shotguns, ALL shotguns that hold < 5 rounds, M1 Garand, Mini-14, ALL semi-autos that can have > 10 rounds with or without fixed magazine.
Gives the attorney general the ability to declare a gun "not sporting" and subsequently ban it.
That's right folks, its the big one. They want 'em all. -Still- feel playing complacent about them not taking away your guns? If this goes through, handguns are toast in <= 5 years. 30 caliber rifles next. Then, there's not much left.
Its bad.
This is getting insane here in Texas. They'll have to become RINO's just to even get close to re-election IMO.
Stay Safe !
But they'll push and push. An "attorney general Schumer" under President Evita may spark an armed conflict in their haste to move too fast toward their ultimate goals.
Y'all don't get it yet, do you?
George W. Bush was for RKBA when he was Governor of Texas and needed Texas's governorship as a platform on which to run for president.
Now he's President of the United States, and he's working for a different audience now. His rich GOP backers don't like peasants owning guns any more than the frustrated Neo-Stalinists of the Left do. They're going to do a deal to skin the Second Amendment, and the media are going to help. Watch.
Not quite. The Supreme Court has to deflect the Emerson case and its threat to the corrupt Miller decision of 1939, the one that insinuated that we really don't have an individual RKBA as a defense against confiscatory or criminal laws against ownership and possession.
Kyle Janek and several others already have. Have to keep weeding them out in the primaries, can't always do it with the money their banks and clients throw around.
Seriously though, we can't afford to let the guard down.
I had always hoped that all of this was nothing more than political posturing ... to draw the marxists out into more and more obtuse thinking and actions. Perhpas it will in fact turn out to be so, which means it was a good peace of politicking
I would never make a good politician because I could never utter the words that I either agreed with or would let such a blatantly unconstitutional measure stand. I believe when you play politics with fundamental rights and principles ... sooner or later it catches up with you and paints you into a corner. I know it did at Klamath and that came very close to being a whole lot more than a "protest" before the tide changed and the tide turned ... but even then it is not over. The same conditions hang over those folks heads.
We need statesmen who stand firm, and we need a lot of them. Until somehow we get those numbers elected, we are going to have to live with far too many politicians (on both sides of the aisle) and hope we can keep enough conservative Republicans in there to influence them to do what is right.
Look no further than how close the last presidential election was.
And let there be no doubt, add into the mix *massive* immigration, legal and illegal, the direction of public schools, etc, unlimited spending, and the future of this country is without question in peril and at risk.
Stay Safe !
I'm smilin'. After reading your reply...I'm thinking about Mel Gibson's character portrayal of William Wallace talking up His troops...."And many years from now, dying in your beds, what would you give to have one chance, ONE CHANCE to tell these *&^$%#@ that they can take your life....but they can never take your FREEDOMMMMMM!"
Then he hollars some kinda barbarian blood hunger thing that sounds like, "Kablankkk!!!".
I don't know what "Kablankkk!!!" means, but I have fantasies of standing out in my back yard, in my underwear and face camo, on a night with a full moon, screaming it at the top of my lungs while I split open a coconut with my wood choppin' axe. The only thing stopping me would be those pesky neighbors calling the cops.
Can't trust nobody anymore. :(
Can't wait to get that book! :) I'd be proud to be called an "ol' Geezer" then according to your definition.
Yes...the more experienced guys would keep testesterone ladden guys like me out of trouble for the most part. :)
It's a bummer when the testesterone displaces all the blood outya head.
Living and learning, Squantos.
On the bad side...I'm a little older than I used to be. On the good side, I'm a little wiser. I hope.
Stay safe yourself friend.
Mike
Yep...that is called INTEGRITY. Not in most people's dictionary in DC. Heard an interview on Focus on the Family with Dr. Frist tonight. He seems to be a man of high standards.
God's grace to you and your family Jeff,
Mike
58!? If it has more chapters than I can squeeze rounds into a hi-cap mag....then perhaps it is too informative for my poor noggin'. 58. I'd be an old geezer by the time I get done reading it. Ok. I'll leave you alone now. Night.
... and the same to you my friend.
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