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Traitor Alert: Ashcroft Pledges to Defend Brady La
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Ashcroft pledges to defend Brady law
May 31, 2002 Posted: 9:15 PM EDT (0115 GMT)
Attorney General John Ashcroft
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Justice Department will continue to defend the Brady handgun law, despite its recent policy declaration that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday.
"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate," Ashcroft said in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." "Those are reasonable regulations, and they're to be defended."
In a filing with the Supreme Court in May, Solicitor General Theodore Olson announced that it was now the policy of the Justice Department that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep and bear arms. The decision reverses a decades-old policy that the amendment only provided a collective right to bear arms as part of a state militia.
The decision by Ashcroft's Justice Department has been savaged by gun control groups, but the attorney general told Larry King, "That's the way it's been interpreted through the vast history of the United States."
"I think it's been clear in history that that right inures to individual citizens of the United States," he said.
The Brady law requires background checks before individuals can purchase weapons. Ashcroft said that measure, and other federal firearm regulations now in place, are reasonable and he will continue to defend them, as he pledged to do in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Thursday, the Justice Department announced it would fight an effort by two District of Columbia men charged with firearms offenses to have their indictments dismissed because of the department's new stance on the Second Amendment.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/31/ashcroft.guns/
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
May 31, 2002 Posted: 9:15 PM EDT (0115 GMT)
Attorney General John Ashcroft
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Justice Department will continue to defend the Brady handgun law, despite its recent policy declaration that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to bear arms, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Friday.
"Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate," Ashcroft said in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live." "Those are reasonable regulations, and they're to be defended."
In a filing with the Supreme Court in May, Solicitor General Theodore Olson announced that it was now the policy of the Justice Department that the Second Amendment gives individuals the right to keep and bear arms. The decision reverses a decades-old policy that the amendment only provided a collective right to bear arms as part of a state militia.
The decision by Ashcroft's Justice Department has been savaged by gun control groups, but the attorney general told Larry King, "That's the way it's been interpreted through the vast history of the United States."
"I think it's been clear in history that that right inures to individual citizens of the United States," he said.
The Brady law requires background checks before individuals can purchase weapons. Ashcroft said that measure, and other federal firearm regulations now in place, are reasonable and he will continue to defend them, as he pledged to do in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Thursday, the Justice Department announced it would fight an effort by two District of Columbia men charged with firearms offenses to have their indictments dismissed because of the department's new stance on the Second Amendment.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/05/31/ashcroft.guns/
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
A. Congress should close the loophole to keep more guns out of the hands of criminals.
B. Currently our communities and schools are not safe. It is time to create a national licensing and gun registration system.
C. Both A and B. Approximately 10,000 people are murdered with firearms each year. Something has to be done.
D. None of the above. Any impediment to gun ownership is a violation of Second Amendment rights regardless of other benefits.
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Attorney General John Ashcroft responded Sunday to the Wall Street Journal's call two days ago for the resignation of FBI Director Robert Mueller, saying the embattled bureau chief is doing a good job.
"Bob Mueller is a battle-tested veteran," Ashcroft told "Fox News Sunday's" Brit Hume.
"He was shot in the line of duty in Vietnam. [He's] got all kinds of - he knows how to operate under fire."
Ashcroft said Mueller is "renovating the FBI in very significant ways to refocus that institution with prevention as its priority, preventing war. And he's doing a good job."
The FBI chief has "totally reconstructed the [FBI's] counterterrorism unit" and fired "about 25 percent" of the bureau's leadership held over from the Clinton administration, Ashcroft said, adding, "These things are already done."
Last week's announcement that the FBI would seek expanded surveillance powers was the second stage of the bureau's restructuring, the Justice Department chief explained, saying the move was "designed to help us do what the American people really want us to do and what we need to do. And that's to focus on preventing additiona l terrorist attacks." http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002/6/2/84545
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Answer "A" yielded about 1%
Answer "B" about the same.
Answer C- Had close to %90.
"The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
-James Madison
You misspoke -- D has over 89%!!!! C has only 8%.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
I agree with you. Ashcroft is still the best we've had in a long time, and he is speaking as a politician. He still says gun rights "inure to the individual" which is what I want to hear. If we're very, very lucky, we may have a chance for a sunset on the assault/import ban in 2004.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Ashcroft has made a major victory for gun owners. In the same instant, he has to pacify the fears of the gun control crowd. Progress is made in short small steps. Ashcroft would be labeled an extremist if he attempted to undermine all gun laws.
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Edited by - thesupermonkey on 06/03/2002 16:34:29
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
The second admendment GUARANTEES the other nine and the Constitution!
You got Sarah Brady and her BS in perpetuaty. Now you gonna have to live with it! The 1994 GCA will be reinstated when it goes "sunset".
Thru the history of all these gun laws-none have disappeared or have been killed that was worth anything.
Never ask why but only the value of.