[ArneFufkin]

The American people, overwhelmingly, support the AWB. That's the political reality.

The single issue bozos are best excised from the GOP anyway.

I'm okay with the status quo. My Second Amendment rights are currently protected to my satisfaction - I own firearms and can carry them concealed on my person should I choose. I can't own a automatic chain gun. I'll take that tradeoff. I won't engage in an all-or-nothing scorched earth campaign, because I could never risk having NOTHING.

Making a recission of the AWB the seminal wedge issue is a guaranteed political loser for any party that engages in such a platform. But, losing politically is what a lot of our most vocal fellow Freepers do best.

[Teacher317]

I'm okay with the status quo. My Second Amendment rights are currently protected to my satisfaction - I own firearms and can carry them concealed on my person should I choose. I can't own a automatic chain gun. I'll take that tradeoff. I won't engage in an all-or-nothing scorched earth campaign, because I could never risk having NOTHING.

Excellent slave mentality. Let's do a re-write...

I'm okay with the status quo. My basic needs (food, clothing, shelter) are currently provided to my satisfaction - I eat sleep, work, and sometimes even play. I just can't leave the plantation. I'll take that tradeoff. I won't engage in an all-or-nothing scorched earth campaign, because I could never risk having NOTHING, and that's what I'd have without the massa!

The single issue bozos are best excised from the GOP anyway.

Then why are the party loyalists whining about us leaving on threads like this, hmm?

[spunkets]

" The single issue bozos are best excised from the GOP anyway."

So it's institutional purity you prefer. What a beautiful thought.

[Barnacle]

The single issue bozos are best excised from the GOP anyway.

I often get the feeling that the party attitude has become, “The Conservatives are best excised from the GOP anyway."

[Poohbah]

The American people, overwhelmingly, support the AWB. That's the political reality.

They wouldn't support an effort to repeal it. But they wouldn't have a conniption if it died a natural death. They might very well have a conniption if ONE man (Bush) vetoed an extension.

The key is to make sure it never gets to Bush's desk.

[Dan from Michigan]

The American people, overwhelmingly, support the AWB. That's the political reality.

The dems thought that in 94. They thought that with the gun shows when Paddy Kennedy and Carolyn McCarthy was chanting "6 seats" after Dingell and DeLay killed it in the house. Same with CCW is a ton of states. Out here, not one person that backed CCW lost re-election in 2000 or 98(although three anti's lost, one Repub, two dems).

There's also three groups that get off their butts and work election time. The pro-lifers. The gunners. The Chamber of Commerce officials(all of which often work together). That's the life blood of the party. Those are the three I always see on the ground.

DeLay wants to kill this. He'll do his best there, and did it once before with gun shows with Dingell's help. I hope he can come through. That'll make things a lot easier for Bush.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Lovers of Losers is my tag for the fanatically blind.

[Don Joe]

The American people, overwhelmingly, support the AWB. That's the political reality.

Nope. It may be the political "reality", but it's not the actual reality.

Lord Dole Himself reported that the calls were running two thousand to one against passage, yet, he voted for it anyway.

The politicians wanted that law, not "the people."

That's a fact, Jack.