Bush makes sure gun lobby gets what it wants
By TOM TEEPEN
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
5/20/2003
“Bush and the people around him are National Rifle Association finger puppets. The NRA twitches, they bow.”
When President Bush announced a couple of weeks ago that he wouldn't oppose renewal next year of the ban on semi-automatic assault weapons, you knew something fishy was up. And sure enough, here it is: Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) says that not only will the House refuse to renew the legislation. The leadership won't even let the matter come up. End of issue.
Thus Bush escapes any blame for re-arming the nation's nut cases with weapons that can mow down school kids and postal employees wholesale -- hey, he said he'd back an extension, didn't he? -- but the gun lobby gets what it wants anyway.