Why do Bush/Ashcroft continue anti-gun policies?

Keep and Bear Arms ^ | 28 August 2002 | Harry Schneider

[glock rocks]

boomp

[45Auto]

"We must conclude that Congress seeks to abrogate administrative and judicial rights it created, by using funding bills, after declining to address actual amendments to or revocation of the creating statute. "

Its a very neat and totally illegal method of denying a citizen his Constitutional rights. Denial of rights by refusing to fund a review process. Rotten bastards.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

...this includes foreign felony convictions for the crime of smuggling bibles into Communist countries or teaching Christianity in certain Islamic countries.

Don't you know that Bible smugglers are a menace? /sarcasm.

I can see why the government wants to keep guns away from violent people. But non-violent people are another matter. Bible smugglers, now that is going a bit too far. LOL!

[Travis McGee]

Bang!

[Noumenon]

Q: Why do Bush/Ashcroft continue anti-gun policies?

A: Because they are statists.

[zeugma]

I'm constantly amazed at how anti-gun this administrations actions have been. They spout nice phrases from time to time, but offer =no= actions to back up their words. How utterly typical of republican politicians.

[sinkspur]

Grass roots gun rights activists are aware of this and if Bush does not change soon, his anti-gun policies may harm the election chances of other establishment Republicans.

I have to laugh at this. How many Americans even KNOW anyone who's committed a felony, much less having committed a felony themselves?

Felons shouldn't have guns. Period.

I'd think time would be better spent elsewhere than in trying to make the case to let criminals possess firearms.

[sinkspur]

I'm constantly amazed at how anti-gun this administrations actions have been. They spout nice phrases from time to time, but offer =no= actions to back up their words.

You don't know what the hell you're talking about. What gun rights have you lost under Bush?

[philetus]

Because they can>

[jwalsh07]

Felons give up all kinds of rights. Liberty, the pursuit of happiness and sometimes the big one, life.

Bush/Ashcroft have made it quite clear that the RTKABA is an INDIVIDUAL right.

Find me another administration who has taken that position.

[Ben Ficklin]

Would you care to comment on the fact that Ashcroft filed a brief with the Supreme Court stating that the second amendment protects an individual's right to keep and bear arms irrespective of his ties to a state militia? This was a reversal of govt policy going back 40 years.

[MissAmericanPie]

Bush stated flat out that he and Ashcroft would strictly inforce the gun laws on the books.

[tahiti]

The court states:

"We are mindful of the serious concerns articulated about convicted felons regaining the right to possess firearms, and of the need for congressional review and enhancement of the safeguards and procedures for appropriately accomplishing this apparently worthy goal,"

Sinskpur you state:

"Felons shouldn't have guns. Period."

Amendment II states:

"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, SHALL NOT be infringed."

What part of "shall not" is not understood?

In addition, no where in Art I, Sec 8, Powers of Congress, is there a reference to felons losing their right to keep and bear arms or for that matter any right.

Felons retain the right enumerated in Amendment VIII:

"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

It is disingenuous, absurd, and illogical that a portion of the Bill of Rights is suspended by Congress, which has no explicit power to do so, one enumerated right while another enumerated right can never be suspended by Congress.

There is absolutely no reference to "compelling state interest" stated in the Constitution for the Congress to invoke to constiutionally suspend rights.

This is congressional and judicial corruption at its worst.

[Lurker]

Bingo. Give that man a cigar.

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[Shooter 2.5]

This almost doesn't sound like a gun rights problem as much as a Judicial rights problem. How in the world can someone be called a felon for doing something in another country that would be perfectly legal here? Lose your rights because you had a beer in Saudi Arabia?

[Shooter 2.5]

By the way, Bush's primary problem is that he is as dumb as a box of rocks.

Stupid statement of the week.

[Uncle Bill]

Bump!