There is no stomach for gun control legislation in Congress, nobody's even talking about gun control legislation, yet you continue to bait with one statement that Gonzales made in a throw-away line.
Now who's sounding paranoid?
To me, that's the point.
We are winning the debate -- the last thing we need to do with a majority in both houses and holding the executive is to give an inch to the losers in the debate.
This is where our opposition has always excelled: as soon as they took one inch, they sought a foot. We have been conditioned that we are always on the defense: well, it is time to change that dynamic, when you are on a winning roll as we are, the last thing to do is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory by conceding any items such as "Well, we support gun control if you guys send us some." It's an unnecessary tactic in this case, in my opinion.
I don't see how conceding this point will aid us in any way. There is no outcry anywhere for more gun control -- even the remnants of HCI are dying away for lack of support. They have given up trying to have marches, because they cannot find enough bodies to keep from embarrassing themselves.
Now is the time for us to speak as strongly as ever, and there is no storm that Mr. Gonzales has to shelter himself from. Giving any ammunition to the foes of liberty in this case is just plain unnecessary. We just recently had a good report from the Department of Justice about how wrong gun control is -- why should the incoming head contradict the very work from his new department?
You may have been right BEFORE the election. The shiite always hits the fan AFTER elections giving the great unwashed time to forget any transgression by the time the next election rolls around.
HR 246 That's just the one whose sponsor is stupid enough to use the term "assault weapon".
Some states are trying to ban "sniper rifles". Others are straining to pass their own version of an assault weapons ban.