We’ve had a President for the last 7 years who vowed to sign an extension of the existing AWB. But for those 7 years, none came over his desk.
It is unlikely that a more restrictive one that meets Romney’s criteria will come over his desk in the next 4 years either. But in the unfortunate chance that it does, we will have the small consolation that we have a strong conservative president and that we managed to muddle through during the 10 years the first ineffective ban was in place.
Romney understands the 2nd amendment, and the only complaint is that he draws the line at which guns to ban slightly further to the left than, say , our other candidates, none of whom are calling to lift the ban on Machine guns, another weapon many people would love to own, and should be able to own.
If your candidate calls for lifting that ban, I’ll give him better credibility on the 2nd amendment. But so long as our leading candidates like Fred Thompson think it’s OK for the state to ban people from carrying guns on public college campuses, I refuse to accept the contention that a ban on a few assault weapons makes MY candidate unacceptable in comparison.
What would have saved the Virginia Tech students — the lack of an AWB, or the right to carry weapons on the campus? My candidate would have banned a couple of weapons nobody would have been using to defend themselves on the campus, because Fred Thompson would support the ban on carrying ANY weapons for defense on that campus.
And don’t get me started on the 1st amendment, where my candidate is clearly better. While you fret that my candidate will take away your right to by a few types of weapons, thus violating the 2nd amendment, your candidate voted to grab my free speech, and in fact took away the free speech of every citizen of the united states.
Bull $hit!
You better read what Fred wrote about the VT campus shooting right after it happened. He blamed the anti-CCW rules on campus for the number of deaths that might have been saved.