Playboy,
Do you pay attention to these liberal windbags when they talk or what? Don't you remember the televised Clinton/liberal/dem gathering on the hill with the "assault rifle" and the statements about why a sportsman would need one? Don't you remember the commercials, articles, posters, questions from doctors about guns in the home, etc etc etc.? Don't you pay attention to Kerry's actions (votes) and his words?
The genius Kerry...
[Kerry] was in Wisconsin the other day, pretending to be a regular guy, and was asked what kind of hunting he preferred.
'I'd have to say deer,' said the senator. 'I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach ... That's hunting.' (???)
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Senator John Kerry, a hunter who supported the recently expired assault weapons ban, frequently tells audiences he has never met anyone who wanted to use an AK-47 to shoot a deer. But it is not clear what Mr. Kerry does with the Chinese assault rifle he told Outdoor Life magazine he kept in his personal collection. {I also remember this idiot in a debate mentioning a sheriff having to go up against an AK-47, forgetting to mention that they were ALREADY illegal}
Presidential candidate John Kerry promised over the weekend that he would "take on the terrorists" who attacked the U.S. on 9/11 by forcing them to obey America's gun control laws. Kerry said laws like the Assault Weapons Ban, which expires today, were valuable "not just to fight ordinary crime but to take on terrorists." (???)
And hero BJ..
Clinton was basking in the media spotlight in Maryland, watching Gov. Parris Glendening (D) sign into law a confusing "gun control" package that, in part, mandates gun locks but totally ignores the criminal misuse of firearms. The following day found the President in Denver continuing his campaign to politicize last year's tragedy at Columbine High as he promoted an anti-gun ballot initiative campaign spearheaded by a local anti-gun organization.
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In 1994, President Clinton told Rolling Stone magazine that he wanted to outlaw handguns.
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"And while Clinton continues to object to the charge that he uses tragedies for political advantage, he was quoted in the Rocky Mountain News on Wednesday as stating,
"Our cause has been aided by the deaths of all these children in all these schools, and in other settings.""
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At the same time he was previewing his Crime Bill, Clinton announced he was issuing two executive orders to the secretary of the Department of the Treasury. One states that as soon as a new factoring system is established for outlawing the importation of
what the President described as "pistols generally characterized by their bulky, military-style appearance and large magazine capacity," the BATF is to begin implementing it.
For example Bill Clinton said:
"I would close the gun show loophole, because the Brady bill has worked superbly.
It’s given us a 35 percent drop in gun crime and a 31 year low in the homicide rate, and kept a half a million people — felons, fugitives, stalkers, from getting handguns." (April 12, 2000, NBC’s Tom Brokaw discusses gun control with the president)
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In April of 1999, Bill and Hillary Clinton held a press conference on gun control legislation. Hillary Clinton stated: "And since the crime bill was enacted, 19 of the deadliest assault weapons are harder to find on our streets. We will never know how many tragedies we've avoided because of these efforts."
*{Assault weapons were involved in less than 1% of homicides before the assault weapons ban took effect in 1994. The same is true as of 1998. }
In October of 1996, Bill Clinton met with the widow of Police Officer Jerome Harrison Seaberry. Later that day at a political rally, Clinton said: “I still think we ought to ban those bullets that are built only for one purpose, to pierce the bullet-proof vests that our police officers wear. I don't see why we need those things out there. … Today, I met with the first -- the family of the first one of the police officers hired under our Crime Bill, killed in the line of duty. I met here in Louisiana, in Lake Charles I met with that officer's widow and two beautiful, beautiful young sons. And I thought to myself, you know, if people like these folks here are going to put their lives on the line for us, the least we can do is tell them if they put on a bullet-proof vest, it will protect them from being killed. That's the least we can do for them.”
* Officer Seaberry was killed in a car crash. No guns or bullets were involved. (68)
* As of 1998, no law enforcement officer has ever been killed because an armor-piercing bullet defeated a bulletproof vest.
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President Clinton, though, does not support defensive gun ownership.
His claims at his press conference that his proposals would not interfere with "reasonable hunting and sports shooting" made no mention of the much more important right to possess guns to save lives.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton held a press conference on gun control legislation. Bill Clinton stated:
"And we smile about that, but there are some people who would be on this platform today who lost their seats in 1994 because they voted for the Brady Bill and they voted for the assault weapons ban, and they did it in areas where people could be frightened."
"Do we know for absolutely certain that if we had every reasonable law and the ones I'm going to propose here that none of these school violence things would have happened?
No. But we do know one thing for certain; we know there would have been fewer of them, and there would have been fewer kids killed in the last several years in America. We know that for certain. We know that."
* In about 5 years since enactment of the Brady Bill and Assault Weapons Ban in 1993, there have been 9 "school massacres."
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"We all know a cop -- he or she may be a family member, a friend, a neighbor, fellow member of a fraternal association or your church. Even if you don’t know an officer, the next time you happen to come into contact with one, ask him or her to give you three top answers to this simple question: "
What do you think we should do to curb crime?" To be sure, more gun laws restricting the use of firearms by law-abiding citizens will not be one of the top answers, guaranteed.
Bill Clinton would have you believe otherwise. The election of the Clinton-Gore ticket helped cement the relationship between anti-gun groups and certain national law enforcement organizations.
Clinton-Gore rewarded the political newlyweds with Justice Department grants and grip-and-grin autographed copies of photos of the Commander-in-Chief posing for staged photo-ops with law enforcement.
The press, gun control advocacy groups and politicians consistently cloaked their latest gun control theme in symbols suggesting that law enforcement sanctions such measures. The fact of the matter is that few, if any, of the gun control schemes proposed during the pre-election frenzy to stir voter emotions emotions actually make life easier for law enforcement, or make our communities safer for anyone except criminals.
Cops, Gun Control And The Legal Repercussions
Most of us will agree that, for years now, there has been an anti-gun, anti-cop movement taking place in this country, which has grown considerably worse under the Clinton Administration. Oftentimes, the media is responsible for painting a biased, prejudiced picture when it comes to both firearms and police-related issues -- vilifying and blaming the object, rather than the person using the object, and/or reporting only part of the story.
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http://www.leaa.org/Cops Versus Gun Control/cvgcwhytheyoppos.html
Kidding, folks, just kidding...
For the leftist/socialist/democrat its all about control, gun control is just a means to an end. Strict control or banning guns is the easiest way to achieve that control in their mind. THEY want to tell you what you do and do not need, THEY want to control your life because THEY are the enlightened ones, follow me, I know whats best for you.:barf: :barf: Their goal is a society of sheep absent of free thought.:barf: Gun ownership gives the common man power over his own destiny and that REALLY aggravates the leftist democrats, its the main obstacle to their goal of control.
I guess I should be happy to be so well protected! I dont have to worry about carrying or anything. I'm protected by a camera!