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Some handy links:

Thanks for all the links.

Thanks for those links. Good stuff in there.

"So it is that President Bush can win points with gun-control groups by sticking to his campaign promise to sign an extension on the assault-weapons ban"

What a crock - no anti-constitutional gungrabbing group and nobody who would vote for a fascist gungrabber at any political level is going to vote for Dubya, nobody. And let us all start referring to ourselves as pro Bill of Rights/pro Freedom and stop letting the heavy left quislings control the terms of the argument with their incessant references to us as "pro gun". The latter term does not instantly center the discussion on the foundational Constitutional issues which underly the 2nd Amendment. In and of itself, the use of the term "pro gun" is akin to calling a staunch supporter of the 1st Amendment "pro ink" or "pro exercise". Not called to mind are the chief justification for and guiding principle of the 2nd Amendment, that all power resides in the people and that no legitimate government shall exercise any power whatsoever except that which, [and no more] the people permit it to exercise. To the contrary, for the last forty years or so, the heavy left quislings in the media, pop culture and academe have successfully [and falsely] imbued the term "pro gun" with a good number of scurrilous and disparaging attributes. And like it or not, among many people who have not thought the matter through, such terms have the desired effect of [a] pre-empting serious discussion of the issue and [b] planting the seeds of antipathy towards the peoples' arms per se. And last, let us start describing the "gun control" quislings in historically and constitutionally correct terms. Very briefly, in historical terms these people are ideologically and spiritually indistinguishable from the long train of totalitarian fascists, from the French revolution down through the present. And underneath it all, they are implacably opposed to our Constitutional first principle, that power flows from the people, through the States and to the central government, only as set forth in the Constitution. These first principles the heavy left publicly scorns and derides, but privately views with fear and loathing. What other conceivable reason drives the heavy left in its invidious and dishonorable assault on the crown jewel of the Bill of Rights?