[JohnHuang2]

Thursday, November 7, 2002

Quote of the Day by leprechaun9

[demosthenes the elder]

It'd help, if real people like you and me and the general run of FReeps hereabouts ever actually got a chance to corner one of these photogenic glib-tongued liars and ASK these questions and DEMAND (with whatever is required to lend the needed authority) that the cough up some answers.
I have longed for YEARS to hammer these dimwits, but the opportunity never comes of itself, and I haven't the faintest idea of how to MAKE it come.

[RLK]

"In the days that followed the Columbine tragedy," Mr. Scott said, "I was amazed at how quickly fingers began to be pointed at groups such as the NRA. I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy – it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of that blame lies here in this room. Much of that blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves."

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From a forthcoming analytical paper by RLK--We live in a society where a substantial proportion of the population is so warped as to not be able to be trusted with guns or anything else. It is this pathological substrate which must be examined. Gun control is a ploy in refusal to examine it. Any society that can't live with small arms in the hands of its population has an underlying problem far greater than those arms.

[SteveH]

bang

[GvMeLbty]

If laws worked; there would be no crime.

[Falcon4.0]

Japan's restrictive gun laws doesn't seem to stop their organized crime figures from getting guns, now does it?

[apillar]

I think gun control is quickly becoming a "third rail" issue for Democrats. Even in the last election the issue was ignored by almost all Democrats -- even during the sniper shootings.

According to the NRA after the last election at least 230 members of congress have an A rating by the NRA. I think this bodes very well for overturning the assault weapons ban in 2004.

Remember we don't have to get anything through congress to end the ban, just run out the clock (September 14, 2004). It's up to the anti-gunners to push a renewal through a pro NRA republican congress and have it signed by a pro-NRA president. Quite a task!

I don't believe President Bush would sign it under any circumstances even if it did manage to clear all the legislative hurdles and reach his desk. I think he knows if he did it would probably cost him the election in 2004 as he would be handing states such as West Virgina, Tennessee, and Arkansas right back to the Dems because the normally pro-gunners in those states would stay home on election day.

[FreedomFriend]