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Assault Weapon Ban vote upcoming...
Red223
Member Posts: 7,946
Rumor is the Senate will be voting soon on Senate Bill 659 to give gun manufacturers protection from liability lawsuits and Senator Feinstein has added the Assault Weapons Ban to it.
Not sure if it has any truth to it, just read it on another Forum.
Might see it on the news soon though, better buy that Mini-14 ASAP. They may no longer be on the market.
Not sure if it has any truth to it, just read it on another Forum.
Might see it on the news soon though, better buy that Mini-14 ASAP. They may no longer be on the market.
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Don't die for your Country make your enemy die for his
Keep everything as simple as possible but no simpler
If the AWB is NOT renewed, it'll be because some Republican in a committee somewhere made sure it didn't get past said committee, or snuck through as a rider on another bill, nicht wahr?
Then that means that we would owe its non-renewal to that Republican chairman, and NOT Bush, who promised he'd sign it if it crossed his desk. Ergo, Bush CANNOT be credited with "defeating" the AWB renewal if it in fact expires. Simple, inarguable logic.
So, to all you Bush partisans out there: If this happens, and the AWB renewal is stopped, DON'T CLAIM THAT BUSH DID IT BECAUSE HE MOST CERTAINLY DID *NOT*.
Pack slow, fall stable, pull high, hit dead center.
Don't fly the river!
May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't.
- General George Patton Jr
"If it is renewed there will be a lot of pissed off gun owners going to the polls..."
To do WHAT, Patbuzzard? Vote for the "other guys"?
The Republicon-artists know damn well most gun-owners won't do that. They know perfectly well that they aren't the least beholden to the firearms-owning morons who helped elect them, and for precisely that reason. They're laughing at us right now: "Oh, so you're angry, little man? BOO-HOO! Oh, SOB! Oh, WEEP! And just who do you think you're going to turn to if we don't feel like protecting your precious little guns, peasant? The Democrats? Don't make us laugh harder than we already are. We're the only game in town as far as your stupid little guns and your stupid little Second Amendment priveleges go, so you'll take what crumbs we see fit to give you, and you'll like it. And you'll keep your damned mouth shut when we decide to take something away, too. Dismissed."
There is NOBODY in Washington who is the least bit on "our" side, because THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE. And they don't have to be because we all flap our flippers and bark like a bunch of trained seals everytime they deign to drop us a meaningless crumb like restricting lawsuits against gun-manufacturers, or, even worse, passing another restriction which is merely slightly watered down from the original proposal---all the while being lauded for it by the NRA like they've done something magnificent that we should be eternally grateful for. The Supreme Court, which is by NO means a friend to the law-abiding firearms owner, consistently dodges its responsibility to clarify the stance of the Second Amendment as either an individual or collective right because to do so would upset their political partners-in-crime who helped them get their cushy jobs; after all, stabbing the American people in the back over one of the most fundamental and important issues of the Big C is FAR more acceptable than displeasing your fellow power-mongers in Government. There's ethical, and there's ethical, you see.
Face it: they have us precisely where they want us.
"Waiting tables is what you know, making cheese is what I know-lets stick with what we know!"
-Jimmy the cheese man
Let's hope we can trust the republicans to not screw this up. In my opinion the fate of the republicans controlling the house and the senate and quite possibly the presidency is directly connected to AW ban sunsetting. If it is renewd there will be a lot of pissed off gun owners going to the polls...
Or worse, for Bush, anyways, there will be a lot of pissed off gun owners NOT going to the polls. Remember, in 1992, Bill Clinton only got 43% of the popular vote, and some of that came from gullible gun owners who were so irate with GB the First, that they felt that good ol' boy from the south would protect gun owners rights.
We gun owners need to contact Karl Rove, George W. Bush's campaign manager, and remind him it was us who got GW elected, and if he takes us for granted, he can find himself un-elected just as easily.