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Ashcroft Reverses Bush Administration Position on Renewing Federal Ban on Assault Weapons
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Posted on 03/06/2003 9:47:31 PM PST by conservativefromGa
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To: conservativefromGa
I'll believe that ban going away when I see it.
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posted on
03/06/2003 9:53:44 PM PST
by
agitator
(Ok, mic check...line one...)
To: conservativefromGa
Ban "military style" rifles? Heck, every American household should have one, IMHO.
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posted on
03/06/2003 9:53:45 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(Socialism is slavery.)
To: conservativefromGa
Hey liberals, you can't pass an extension to the assault weapons ban if you are stuck filibustering Estrada!
Ouch, that's got to hurt!
Oh yeah, you can't pass such an extension through a Republican House, Senate, and Presidency, either (especially when said groups have just finished passing TWO arming pilots pro-gun laws in the last year or so).
That's got to hurt even more!
Man, the VPC's PRNewswire is going to melt!
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posted on
03/06/2003 9:55:27 PM PST
by
Southack
(Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: conservativefromGa
Yet just last week the New Orleans Times-Picayune reported that the White House supported extending the ban. Ashcroft's refusal to voice support for renewal of the ban represents a dramatic shift in the Administration's position. Good. Maybe someone in the administration realized that they aren't going to get re-elected if they re-authorize this abominable, anti-constitutional piece of passed legislation pretending to be a law.
To: conservativefromGa
When one of these anti-gun maggots can show me a gun that drove itself to a hold up or bank robbery and raised itself and killed an innocent person all by itself, I will agree that Guns need to be regulated, Until then, the criminals who break the laws of our land need to be legislated against, NOT THE GUNS
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posted on
03/06/2003 9:57:07 PM PST
by
MJY1288
(It's Time To Roll)
To: conservativefromGa
Ashcroft has been repeatedly strong on the Second Amendment. I always thought the ban addressed a REAL problem, as only 1/10th of one percent of all crimes were commited with the misnamed "assault" rifles.
Oh, happy day if this really gets killed! Go John, go!
To: conservativefromGa
Am I mortified!
Everyone knows that pistol grips on rifles are the most deadly feature ever incorporated in a long gun.
Surely the end of the world is at hand.
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posted on
03/06/2003 9:59:10 PM PST
by
mercy
To: Technogeeb
What I would like to see is an email/fax campaign, much like the morons for saddam attempt to flood the capital where we send all of the fedreps a copy of the second amendment. A simple,
'A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.'
Nothing more than this and our names. Once a day until they publicly promise to allow the bill to die. I wonder what their response to such a flood would be.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:02:40 PM PST
by
Rasputin_TheMadMonk
(Yes I am a bastard, but I'm a free, white, gun owning bastard. Just ask my exwife.)
To: conservativefromGa
The Violence Policy Center is a national non-profit educational organization working to stop gun death and injury in America.The Violence Policy Center is a virulent left-wing organization of liars and manipulators funded by a billionaire marxist working to villify all gun owners, confiscate their guns and ultimately cause grave injury to freedom in America.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:03:31 PM PST
by
spodefly
(This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
To: conservativefromGa
Terrorist training manuals seized in Afghanistan have made clear that America's enemies recognize the nexus between our nation's weak gun laws and potential terrorist attacks. Oh really? The terrorists believe they will be safer with fewer US citizens with legally owned guns? Hardly....
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:04:17 PM PST
by
The Toad
To: conservativefromGa
Terrorist training manuals seized in Afghanistan have made clear that America's enemies recognize the nexus between our nation's weak gun laws and potential terrorist attacks.
This guy is kidding, right ? Notwithstanding I don't know what the heck it even means other than terrorists want us disarmed, didn't a Russian General say Russia was hesitant to be in a war with the U.S.A., not because of our military, but because of the number of private citizens posessing weapons ?
BUZZZZZZZZZZZ ! VPC...thanx for playing.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:04:45 PM PST
by
stylin19a
(all in all - I'd rather be golfing)
To: mercy
Maybe if they were designed to use Joselyn Elders' 'safer bullets' they would be acceptable.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:04:51 PM PST
by
tbpiper
To: conservativefromGa; Redcloak; joesnuffy
Stories about the same testimony with opposing interpretations
here and
here My own take is that the administration is playing chicken with the Republicans in congress to avoid having to use a veto: "You guys had better not let this renewal get to my desk or I might just sign it and then we'll both have to take the heat." The President is also up for renewal in the fall of 2004 and I'm sure that he would rather not have to deal with this topic.
To: conservativefromGa
Bump
To: conservativefromGa
To all Californians reading this:
We gotta dump this female dog Feistien.
Get active. Join CRPA and donate time and money.
Don't buy Levis or Hallmark cards.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:08:30 PM PST
by
Blue Collar Christian
(Okie by proxy, raised by Yankees, temporarily Californian)
To: conservativefromGa
Years ago when I first heard of California's plan to ban semi-auto rifles(but they could find no reason to ban them) I told my neighbours "get ready! There is going to be a mass killing with an assault rifle somewhere in the US, probably in California".
3 months later the Stockton massacre happened and Cali banned the rifles.
Be ready. There will be a mass killing somewhere in the US before the ban expires. I can't help but believe that a "set-up" will be in place to keep the ban in effect or made worse.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:12:11 PM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(When someone burns a cross on your lawn the best firehose is an AK-47.)
To: conservativefromGa
I will believe it when I see it. And if the war goes badly and the economy tanks, we may be seeing President Hillary and Attorney General Schumer in two years. Then all bets are off.
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posted on
03/06/2003 10:14:06 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
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