Once again proving beyond a doubt the utterly dispicable and dishonorable double-standards of the political left and their media cheerleaders.
Posted on 05/21/2003 7:25:40 AM PDT by Joe Brower
The late Pauline Kael, the insanely liberal movie reviewer for decades at The New York Slimes newspaper, actually made this comment about Nixon's after his win in '72.
Naw, my rifle was made to kill Bambi's.
Nothing to see here, next thread please...
If so, they can be completely satisfied they are getting their money's worth of lying, Liberal invective!
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 ...
OK, idiot, understand the following: your beloved (and unconstitutional, as if you care) law never took a single firearm "off the street." All of the old guns are still out there, putz - they're called "pre-bans." Thanks to your stupid law, they (and the magazines that feed them) cost at least twice what they should - THAT is the only effect of the AWB. Oh, and by the way MEATHEAD, millions of brand-new, functionally-identical weapons have been produced and sold to the public since 1994, all legally. So, where's the bloodbath?
Attorney General John Ashcroft, throwing over generations of legal understanding, has declared that there is an all but abiding personal right to firearms ownership, not a right pegged to the maintenance of public security, as the Second Amendment plainly says. (So much for "original intent" when it becomes politically bothersome.)
If this shite-for-brains would bother to read the writings of the Founding Fathers (Federalist #46, by Madison, is among my favorites in this regard), or would bother to actually read the 1939 decision in the U.S. v. Miller case, he might understand what "original intent" is and might further understand that the Founding Fathers wanted the populace armed to prevent the imposition of a tyranny. Governments have powers, people have rights. Idiot.
I didn't argue that hunting was the reason for the 2nd.
The orginal version of my comment was
"My rifle was made for killing Bambi's.
That it is an effective sniper rifle is a bonus."
I removed the 2nd part so as not to appear totally nuts.
(I'll admit to being nuts, but not totally.)
I'm an Endowment life NRA member, a life GOA member,
and a member of MCRGO.
I have a CPL and do carry my Glock 23 almost everywhere..
The Glock was not made for killing Bambi's.
Assault weapons belong off the street, under a ban
Adolf Hitler was so delighted with the lethal capability of the new gun presented to him by his ordnance designers during World War II that he dubbed it the "Sterm Kever" (eye thunk he meens "Sturmgewehr")-- or assault rifle.
Today, assault rifles still kill efficiently and quickly, as demonstrated by the Beltway snipers. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo allegedly wielded a .223-caliber Bushmaster XM15, an assault rifle adapted to evade the 1994 ban on assault weapons.
Even that limited ban will expire next year unless the U.S. Congress comes to its senses and votes to extend it. Most Americans assume that the ban on assault weapons was permanent and comprehensive. It was neither.
The ban lasts only 10 years, and was so slack that gun manufacturers continue to make and market assault weapons by virtue of simple modifications. The ban needs to become permanent, and its provisions need to be tightened so that weapons that are assault rifles in all but name are outlawed.
Assault rifles were created solely to kill people; today, those people are often law enforcement officers. Forty-one of the 211 U.S. police officers killed in the line of duty between 1998 and 2001 were murdered with assault rifles, according to a new analysis by the Violence Policy Center.(well if the VPC said it, it must be true)
To justify assault rifles in home arsenals, the gun industry has created sporting competitions around them and spun the myth that the high-powered weapons are the best guarantee of personal safety. But there is no reason for the average citizen to own a firearm invented to give poor marksmen in the German army a better chance of hitting their targets. If assault rifles provide the ultimate in personal protection, the streets of Baghdad would be the safest in the world rather than the most dangerous.(here we go again: the freedom to own weapons produces anarchy, yada yada)
Despite the deadly threat to police officers and civilians alike from assault rifles, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) wants to let the ban lapse and permit these killing machines to flood our streets. DeLay says he won't let the extension come up for a vote. And President Bush, who claims to favor the ban, isn't pushing Congress for an extension.
The National Rifle Association wants the assault ban lifted. In its paranoid view, the banning of Uzis one day means your Colt will be confiscated tomorrow. (hey AJC: Colts are on the ban list too, you morons) The NRA leadership insists the right to own a gun accorded Americans in the Second Amendment extends to any and all guns, even those that fire off 30 rounds in less than two seconds and murder innocent children. (WTF?!?)
That purported right is more important to the NRA than protecting police officers, disarming street gangs or safeguarding children. The gun lobby doesn't believe it has any moral or civic obligation to the community outside its membership and feels no responsibility for the victims of assault rifles.
But our senators and representatives have an obligation to the larger community. That community -- and that means all of us -- has to tell Congress and DeLay that assault weapons do not belong on our streets. (as I have often said, they belong in a gun cabinet with the other guns)
Once again proving beyond a doubt the utterly dispicable and dishonorable double-standards of the political left and their media cheerleaders.
I think you give them too much credit - "thinking"?? How can you call their mental dysfunction "thinking"? - LOL!!
You've nailed it, though, in that they surround themselves with others who spout the same intellectually vacuous rhetoric. Sort of like pondscum standing up for its right to float aimlessly on the surface of some fluid (poluted or not,) caring not for any possible underlying situation (i.e., extremely shallow - LOL!)!
Where's the data, the old analysis?
Did they rewrite their idea of an "assault rifle" to include WWII vintage weapons now, which the new Dem bill includes? Such as Garands, M1 Carbines, etc.
"Assault rifle" to A-holes is any rifle or handgun for that matter that fires a bullet.
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