Tuesday, September 14, 2004
Two Things...
On the assault weapons ban that just expired.
First. To the Democrats...Shut up. Stop your whining about the whole thing expiring. It was an empty bill leaving so many loopholes one would have thought that someone had bought an UZI and reconditioned it into a true automatic machine gun and then taken a shot at the damn thing.
To the fine Republicans... put up. Bush said he'd support a re-upping of the ban. Of course he said this only because he knew it would never reach his desk. It could have easily, his party does control both the house and the senate and he is the head of the party, but we know there's more NRA money floating around here than drunken bimbos at a Leonardo DiCaprio house party. That bill never had a chance and the Republicans (rightfully) pointed out that it was an unsuccessful bill. That said, if that's your reason for not renewing it, then put your heads back together with the Democrats and write a bill without the holes.
I'm really sick of the whole gun argument in the United States. I have no problem with people owning guns and hunting, but while I believe in the second amendment, I also believe in the spirit of the second amendment. It was written in fear of an oppressive government taking over and the people having no recourse but to rise up themselves against it. It didn't mean that every moron is this country should be packing heat on the way to the 7-11 to buy their forty and lottery tickets. I think you should be able to have a gun, however it should be a nice single shot black powder musket. For those defenders of the guns who say it's not guns who kill people. That's just stupid. We know that. It's not the guns that kill people, but the bullets in the guns. However, without those guns, throwing bullets would be much less effective.
Frankly, I really am willing to allow people to own guns, but only with a nice extensive background check and a required amount of training time before you can actually buy it.
First. To the Democrats...Shut up. Stop your whining about the whole thing expiring. It was an empty bill leaving so many loopholes one would have thought that someone had bought an UZI and reconditioned it into a true automatic machine gun and then taken a shot at the damn thing.
To the fine Republicans... put up. Bush said he'd support a re-upping of the ban. Of course he said this only because he knew it would never reach his desk. It could have easily, his party does control both the house and the senate and he is the head of the party, but we know there's more NRA money floating around here than drunken bimbos at a Leonardo DiCaprio house party. That bill never had a chance and the Republicans (rightfully) pointed out that it was an unsuccessful bill. That said, if that's your reason for not renewing it, then put your heads back together with the Democrats and write a bill without the holes.
I'm really sick of the whole gun argument in the United States. I have no problem with people owning guns and hunting, but while I believe in the second amendment, I also believe in the spirit of the second amendment. It was written in fear of an oppressive government taking over and the people having no recourse but to rise up themselves against it. It didn't mean that every moron is this country should be packing heat on the way to the 7-11 to buy their forty and lottery tickets. I think you should be able to have a gun, however it should be a nice single shot black powder musket. For those defenders of the guns who say it's not guns who kill people. That's just stupid. We know that. It's not the guns that kill people, but the bullets in the guns. However, without those guns, throwing bullets would be much less effective.
Frankly, I really am willing to allow people to own guns, but only with a nice extensive background check and a required amount of training time before you can actually buy it.
