Posted on 06/21/2004 4:26:40 AM PDT by MikeJ75
About 25 Chicago area activists, including mothers and fathers who've lost children to gun violence, picketed in front of U.S. House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's Batavia office Saturday to urge extension of the federal assault weapons ban.
The 10-year ban is set to expire in September. President Bush has indicated he would sign a bill extending the ban, but it has been slow to move through Congress, activists said.
"We're trying to light a fire under the guy. We're asking Speaker Hastert to put it on the floor," said Steve Young of Skokie whose 19-year-old son was killed with a semi-automatic handgun in 1996.
In a related article, Herbie Schwartz called on Congress to begin an all out war on rattlesnakes, after his 18 year old son was bitten and killed by one, as he was attempting to place it in a neighbors mailbox, as a practical joke.
Twenty five anti-gun activists get a story?
And the press ignores 250,000 pro-life people marching on Washington?
Take a look:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1149794/posts
"Assault" Weapons Ban: Feinstein alert!
http://www.awbansunset.com/ ^ | June 7, 2004 | http://www.awbansunset.com/
Other RKBA forums I belong to are none too amused at this sneak attack-
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/index.php
http://www.thehighroad.org/
Sorry, but I must correct your spelling of the name of a stellar senator from California:
It's Fineswine.
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