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You're right that Bush doesn't have to expound on the 2nd Amendment. It would, however, be nice if he'd take the opportunity to move on gun friendly initiatives when he has the political cover to. So far, 44 pilots have been permitted to arm themselves. If even Barbara Boxer wants them armed, why can't Bush simply require that pilots be armed whenever they carry US Mail? That, as I recall, was the policy until some time in the late '70s.

From where I'm sitting, it looks like Bush does the absolute minimum in defense of the 2nd Amendment. Unfortunately, he's a real chip off the old block.

From where I'm sitting, it looks like Bush does the absolute minimum in defense of the 2nd Amendment.

Dubya is not the answer to all our hopes, dreams and prayers. Nobody on this earth ever will be.

Dubya is, first and foremost, a politician. Anyone who wins elective office is a politician, by definition. Dubya happens to be an extremely shrewd one.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? Maybe Dubya is really a closet gun-grabber. You want him to "move on gun friendly initiatives when he has the political cover." I am just glad he is shrewd enough not to go in the opposite direction.

Politics is not religion, it is war. In religion there is only truth and heresy. In war there is only winning and losing. You win a war by winning a long series of battles. Sunsetting the AWB is the objective of the current campaign.

We are scheduled to win this campaign, UNLESS the AWB renewal gets put on the radar screen because some "conservatives" are idolators who consider politics to be a religion and will settle for nothing less than dogmatic declarations by their false god in Washington.

So far, 44 pilots have been permitted to arm themselves. If even Barbara Boxer wants them armed, why can't Bush simply require that pilots be armed whenever they carry US Mail?

He doesn't even need to do that. The law allows for pilots to be armed. What the President should do is kick his Homeland Security Chief in the kiester, who whould then kick the head of the Transportation Security Adminstration in the same delicate spot, and have them revise the currently overly restrictive rules for arming pilots and specifying how they may transport their firearms. Most especially the requirement for pilots to be "federal flight deck officers", I guess under the notion that only government agents should have guns. Those rules are not in the law, they are bureacratic rules, so they can be changed with a "stroke of the pen".

It would, however, be nice if he'd take the opportunity to move on gun friendly initiatives when he has the political cover to.

Hell, I'd be happy if he'd just rescind some of the executive orders Clinton signed. I'sd like to be able to get a spare barrel for some of my imported "assault weapons" without having to file a Form 6.