And what of this decision makes you think he will be? Or did you just take the opportunity of this thread to tell us how much you distrust the current president?
I'm posting this so we stay vigilant. Too many people think our guns are safe(state and federal) level since republicans are in control. They are safer than they would be under the democrats, but the senate has a close 50/50 pro/anti split between the RINOS like Chafee and the usual dem nuts like Feinstein and Carl Lenin.
The number one gun issue in the entire country are judges. A Souter clone would be a disaster. Nixon(I believe) gave us Warren Burger's fraud(and also Rehnquist). Ford gave us Stephens. Reagan gave us O'Connor and Kennedy(squishes) as well as Scalia. Bush I gave us Souter, but also Thomas.
Or did you just take the opportunity of this thread to tell us how much you distrust the current president?
President Bush is a politician and will do whatever he has to do for HIS agenda. That's not an attack on him, but a simple fact. We all have our own agendas, and sometimes President Bush's agenda is similar to mine and other times it isn't. President Bush(who I voted for twice) frankly has a mixed record on guns. Good - Judge Bill Pryor, Bolton, told the US to go pound sand, signed CPL in TX, backs banning gun lawsuits. Bad - Willing to play games on the 2nd amendment to have it both ways if it helps another agenda. Examples there are signing BICRA(better known as McCain/Feingold), and being on record supporting the AWB and possibly gun show ban as well.
I have a wait and see attitude on Judge Robers. I support an up or down vote on him, but other than that, I am completely on the fence since I don't know a thing about him. All I have is my gut feeling (Rehnquist type - acceptable), but I need more than that to go on before saying "good guy" or "unacceptable".
We need to stay vigilant.