Broad Coalition Calls for a Strengthened Assault Weapons Ban (NAGS, CFA, Church groups, others)

Join Together ^ | 5-7-03

[Dan from Michigan]

Would someone tell me what in the blue hell does consumer groups, church orgs, etc have to do with the 2nd amendment? Or the Nags? Doctors need to remember "Do no harm".

[Dan from Michigan]

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[Nachoman]

A larger coalition calls for them to shove the AWB.

[Fee]

The NRA and GOA must be equally hardballed. With Doctors, they should support every law that will regulate them, hold them accountable, and make them vulnerable to every possible lawsuit from patients. If they do not like that, then they leave the gunowners alone, and we will leave them alone. Many of those anti-gun groups are equally vulnerable to government regs and lawsuits.

[Sender]

They are all pro-socialist groups, and disarmament of the population is a primary requirement. Whatever their 'vision'.

[Joe Brower]

[George Smiley]

American Association of Suicidology

From this particular group's name, you'd have thought they'd want *increased* availability.

[m1911]

Excellent point. You'd think that the doctors, who are beginning to revolt over the excesses of the trial lawyers, would be a natural ally...

bones & chirodoc, hope you don't mind the ping, I saw you on the other thread re:doctors and gun questions.

[backhoe]

Joe, I don't have time right now to go & fetch them individually, but go here to the last & scroll backwards- there are plenty of related links here:

DUBOB 11-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....

[jdege]

During the debate over the Minnesota shall-issue law, one of the Metrocrats (our favorite son, Wes Skoglund) presented a list of three hundred organizations that opposed the law.

The question was asked, what groups support the shall-issue bill?

Minnesota Concealed Carry Reform, Now!, the National Rifle Association, and the Republican Party of Minnesota.

And, of course, the majority of voters in the last election....

I'm getting sick and tired of these professional leftists taking adminstrative jobs at various non-profits, instead of working for a living, then using other people's money to push an agenda that few of them are aware of, all the while pretending to be the voice of "civil society".

[The Old Hoosier]

Whistling Dixie!

[Redcloak]

DiFi is trying hard to resist the temptation to fiddle with the bill. A "strengthened" bill might give Bush an excuse to back down and oppose the bill rather than support it. After the firestorm that erupted after the White House's remarks about renewing the bill, they may be looking for an out. Let's hope that DiFi, or some other Democrat, succumbs to the pressured from these groups and tampers with the bill.

[Mr. Mojo]

This is going to be one mighty disappointed coaltion.

[45Auto]

Feinswine is running scared that the companion bill in the House will become part of a broader bill that will never be passed. She may be right, but if we know one thing about politicians whatever their stripe, they are all "on the take" and their treachery knows no bounds. We need to "grease the right palms" in the House, but even that is no guarantee that they will do the right thing.

[eskimo]

A larger coalition calls for them to shove the AWB.

Larger indeed, I have heard that most of those lobby organizations in DC are one room offices staffed with 1 or 2 people who don't even talk to people they supposedly represent, they just do what they are told by those who own them.

[templar]

With Doctors, they should support every law that will regulate them, hold them accountable, and make them vulnerable to every possible lawsuit from patients.

That's not going to be very popular among the Tort reformers around here.

[mabelkitty]

Is this from The Onion?


American Association of Suicidology
(Suicide is now a learned subject??)
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved
(Doctors who take Medicare/Medicaid)
Doctors Against Handgun Injury
(???)
American Academy of Pediatrics
(To keep people from shooting themselves in the foot)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(In case a father wants to take justice into his owns hands)
Mennonite Central Committee U.S., Washington Office
(How do we know for sure? When did the Amish get electricity?)
Union of American Hebrew Congregations
(For shame. They should know better)

[Eastbound]

Sounds like a bunch of phoney UN NGO groups. It's for the chiiiiiiiildren, don'cha know.

[Dan from Michigan]

Some days it's hard to tell if it is real or from the Onion.