Re: The 2ed Amendment as a Gun Nuts Wet Dream

On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 16:29:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Mayer) wrote:

>On 29 Nov 2003 01:39:17 -0600, "Speedbyrd :>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
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>>Laws change all the time.  When that's done, the authorities will enforce it. You 
>>make it sound like you're so
>>safe in your little world of guns.  You're not.  I do my work at the voting booth 
>>and through correspondence
>>to my representatives.
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>>    The Speedbyrd :>
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>      The representatives are running as fast as they can and as far
>as they can from gun control laws because they know that they won't
>have a job for long if they continue as they have.
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>  "The fights I fought... cost a lot --the fight for the
>assault-weapons ban cost 20 members their seats in Congress.  The NRA
>is 
>the reason the Republicans control the House."
>--President Bill Clinton, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, January 14, 1995 
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>  "I don't want to destroy the good atmosphere in the room or in the 
>country tonight, but I have to mention one issue that divided this
>body 
>greatly last year.  The last Congress also passed the Brady bill and,
>in 
>the crime bill, the ban on 19 assault weapons.  I don't think it's a 
>secret to anybody in this room that several members of the last
>Congress who voted for that aren't here tonight because they voted for
>
>it.  And I know, therefore, that some of you who are here because they
>
>voted for it are under enormous pressure to repeal it.  I just have to
>
>tell you how I feel about it.  The members of Congress who voted for 
>that bill and I would never do anything to infringe on the right to
>keep 
>and bear arms, to hunt and to engage in other appropriate sporting 
>activities.  I've done it since I was a boy, and I'm going to keep
>right 
>on doing it until I can't do it anymore. 
>But a lot of people laid down their seats in Congress so that police 
>officers and kids wouldn't have to lay down their lives under a hail
>of 
>assault weapon attack, and I will not  let that be repealed.  I will
>not 
>let it be repealed."
>--President Bill Clinton, State Of  The Union address, January ?, 1995
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>"I don't think there's any doubt that, in at least five states 
>I can think of, the NRA had a decisive influence.  You've got 
>to hand it to them, they've done a good job.  They've probably 
>had more to do than anyone else in the fact that we 
>didn't win the House this time.  
>And they hurt Al Gore"
>-Former President William J. Clinton, speaking to Dan Rather
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Wow 5 states.  Must be the ones where inbreeding is legal since that's where most of 
you nest.
  
    The Speedbyrd :>