Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons ban

iBerkshires.com ^ | July, 08 2004

[looscnnn]

Be sure to answer "I don't know, your great-grandpa could answer that better than I could."

[looscnnn]

Anyone from MA that could look into who these "sportsmen’s groups" are and their backgrounds (possible anti-gun environuts)?

[looscnnn]

Pinging due to this happening your state. Maybe you can pass on to others, especially post #42?

[tx4guns]

I've gotten to the point where I don't feel any sympathy for people in these states where gun control is rampant. They choose to live there, and they keep electing these tyrannical idiots. The "United" States are not that anymore. The U.S. Constitution has been ignored by the states to the point that it's a distant memory. This country is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned. It's a bunch of micro-countries, all with separate laws and separate cultures. The future of this country is a sad one indeed. What will it take to wake these idiot lemmings up?

[DMZFrank]

“Deadly assault weapons have no place in Massachusetts,” Romney said, at a bill signing ceremony on July 1 with legislators, sportsmen’s groups and gun safety advocates. “These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”

And if the people are in the employ of tyrants bent on destroying our constitutional rights, aiding, abetting or committing terrorism or engaged in the the type of crime that legally and morally justifies the use of deadly force in response to it, what's the problem with using a so called "assault weapon" against them?

[Indie]

And some people here have listed him as a 2008 presidential choice...

In 2008 I Will be voting CONSTITUTION PARTY...not RepublicRat. Bush will get my vote this time.

[Indie]

And if ALL of us would do this, we might have a chance to take our country back.

[Little Bill]

NH, is getting a new voter on 1/1/05. Mitt is becoming a disaster just like his father.

I seem to remember something on Temple SQ about supporting Constitutions, I wonder if Mitt read it?

[El Gato]

This country is not what the Founding Fathers envisioned. It's a bunch of micro-countries, all with separate laws and separate cultures. The future of this country is a sad one indeed. What will it take to wake these idiot lemmings up?

Actually in most areas that is exactly what the founders recognized and intended. It's what the 10th amendment is all about. However the states are not allowed to violate inalienable rights any more than the federal governemnt is. As posted above, MA is violating its own Constitution as well as the federal one. (All state officials must swear to support and defend the federal Constitution, as well as that of their own state if it requires them to do the later). Regardless of what one thinks of the way the 14th amendment has been applied and interpreted, the intent of it's framers was to apply the Bill of Rights (the first 8 at least) to the state governments.

[Dan from Michigan]

BUMP for 2008