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"Once again," perhaps you can tell us "how [our RKBA will] be reclaimed under" any Republican president who ignores the Constitution he swore to preserve, protect, and defend? "Is it magic? Something that automatically happens when a Republican is elected?"

Since you won't answer my question, I'll take a stab at yours...

First, a liberal President will continue to erode RKBA through various means. It might be more illiterate judges that can't read "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" and instead rule that it is a "collective right."

Second, a liberal President will have to pander to his base, a la the Brady Center and PETA. AWB, is nothing like what they could dream up.

Third, the agencies implementing law (ATF in this case) can effectively strangle buyers and licensed dealers with red tape (especially if they have packed courts to fall back on). A simple rule change here, a different interpretation there, and you get an entire legal industry ground to a halt. The President is in charge of these agencies.

The gun banners tried Congress, and they had success for a while. The NRA has been the most effective organization at turning that tide but there is still a ways to go - those bills should never even make it to the President's desk.

Now they are working at the judicial level and having mixed results. Maybe you should ask the President's opinion on protecting the firearms industry from frivilous lawsuits because with or without AWB, it will be tough to buy a firearm from a bankrupt company.

Remaining are the implementing agencies. The CDC has historically been infested with gun banners. Only recently have they ever so reluctantly begun to see the light of day. There are other agencies out there that can make life a headache outside the light of the press that you either don't know about or don't want to acknowledge.

Is that better? Now please tell me how many steps backwards you are willing to take since you might not get your way on on battle in a larger war?

[Who is John Galt?]

First, a liberal President will continue to erode RKBA through various means...Second, a liberal President will have to pander to his base, a la the Brady Center and PETA. AWB, is nothing like what they could dream up...Third, the agencies implementing law (ATF in this case) can effectively strangle buyers and licensed dealers with red tape (especially if they have packed courts to fall back on). A simple rule change here, a different interpretation there, and you get an entire legal industry ground to a halt. The President is in charge of these agencies.

Thanks for the reply. "First," a Republican President who signs unconstitutional gun control legislation is no better than a "liberal President [who] will continue to erode RKBA through various means."

"Second," a Republican President who panders to the Brady Center is no different than a "liberal president [who] will have to pander to his base, a la the Brady Center..."

"Third," I know several law-abiding citizens who used to hold FFLs. I have yet to see this President propose "a simple rule change here" or "a different interpretation there" that would put them back in business.

If there is no functional difference between a Republican President and a D@mocrat President, then what do you suggest makes the former worth voting for? Karma?

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...those bills should never even make it to the President's desk.

Time will tell. Many of the real conservatives who were elected in '94 promised to limit their time in office - and are therefore no longer present to influence the matter. Let's see what the left-over political pragmatists actually pass into 'law'...

Maybe you should ask the President's opinion on protecting the firearms industry from frivilous lawsuits because with or without AWB, it will be tough to buy a firearm from a bankrupt company.

It will be even tougher if the President signs a bill banning those same firearms, don't you think?

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Remaining are the implementing agencies. The CDC has historically been infested with gun banners. Only recently have they ever so reluctantly begun to see the light of day. There are other agencies out there that can make life a headache outside the light of the press that you either don't know about or don't want to acknowledge.

And how will this situation be improved if Mr. Bush signs, as he has promised to do, a reimplementation of the 'assault weapons' ban? Hmm? Are you expecting him to sign the bill, and then instruct ATF not to enforce it? Or will he use 'pixy dust' to make everything better?

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Is that better? Now please tell me how many steps backwards you are willing to take since you might not get your way on on battle in a larger war?

Frankly, I might be willing to suffer another Clinton for 2 years, if it would produce another honest-to-God "Revolution of '94." Personally, I will not promote an anti-constitutionalist Republican in lieu of a real republican...

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