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Clinton is crying for more gun laws, but he won't get his way this year, according to the pundits! Why?

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>GOP: Stricter laws not necessary

Meanwhile, in the weekly Republican radio address, Connecticut Gov. John Rowland also alluded to Rolland's death, saying that states and local governments need more flexibility to educate and help troubled children.

The solution isn't always new legislation, he said.

"The most far-reaching laws cannot always prevent the most outrageous of human behaviors," Rowland said.

"We must enforce current laws that are on the books, and we must continue to examine the profound effects of cultural violence," Rowland said. "We see violence depicted in our popular culture, almost without interruption. It is routine and it is wrong."
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Someone should tell this to Henry Hyde then. After he waddled his way from the meeting in the White House, he was saying how everyone (I assume Republicans on the committee) supports the waiting period for gun shows, MANDATORY gun locks, and a BAN on regular-capacity magazines.

The Republicans as a whole are just waiting for the opportune time to plunge the knife deeper into our backs. With a few more school shootings it will be done.
 
This was a bad day for Republicans on the news. Commenting about the gun control measure now pending in committee, Hatch made a statement exactly with this sense, <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>"Before I vote to limit the Second Amendment of the Constitution, I want to hear a pretty good argument."[/quote]

The only thing holding up passage, apparantly, is the gun show amendment. I don't know if that's the argument that allows Republicans who are hard on other items to seem more reasonable, or whether they really don't care about gun locks, large-cap mags, etc. I think Tent Lott spoke out against pre-ban mags, or Henry Hyde or whomever, saying that it was only reasonable.
 
How the Constitutional mandate on interstate commerce can be applied to private transfers of firearms and the keeping of a firearm in one's own home is beyond me. That is unless thefts from my home can be viewed as legitimate interstate commerce.

Keep your heads up Boys. These guys will eventually legislate us into the Supreme Court through their dimwitted "compassionate" laws.

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Gun Control: The proposition that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her own panty hose, is more acceptable than allowing that same woman to defend herself with a firearm.
 
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