PoliticsJeff Soyer on 10 Apr 2009 06:34 am
Feinstein: I’ll Delay Push for AWB
Somehow I don’t expect it will be for long:
The California senator who authored the nation’s now-lapsed 1994 ban on assault weapons says she will hold off trying to renew that ban.
Dianne Feinstein (D.-Calif.) tells 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl that the political timing isn’t right and she will move to renew the ban at a future time of her own choosing. Feinstein appears in Stahl’s report on the increase in gun sales taking place in America to be broadcast this Sunday, April 12, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
She’s probably thinking, “Yeah, I’ll put it off. A week.”
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on 10 Apr 2009 at 10:45 am # Steve
You would think that if they honestly thought an AWB would “save lives” etc… it would be a top priority not just something that is politically well timed.
on 10 Apr 2009 at 1:57 pm # Sigivald
I don’t know - the polls are univocal against it, and she doubtless remembers what happened to her party the last time.
She’s a long-term professional politician. I think she’ll hold off until she has some reason to believe it won’t have strongly negative repercussions to her party.
At this rate, it may well be “until she’s out of office”.
on 10 Apr 2009 at 8:14 pm # Matt
What arrogance and outright evilness that she’s waiting to shove this down our throats until it’s politically expedient. Total predator of liberty. She needs to realize that there’s a reason gun sales are through the roof and ammo can hardly be found…and it will be to her detriment should she ever awaken the beast that is the armed populace.
on 10 Apr 2009 at 8:29 pm # Roberta X
She’s hoping the next round of brain-programmed thrill-killers will do the trick?
on 10 Apr 2009 at 8:35 pm # Myles
She’ll hold off on it… about one minute after the 2010 elections are over, if the Dem’s still control Congress. I’m sure the powers that be have informed all of them that the Obamessiah needs at least 4 years of a friendly Congress.
on 14 Apr 2009 at 11:49 pm # Seamas
I think the main calculation for the anti-gun Democrats is that a lot of their new members are not anti-gun and they would pay a price that they don’t want to pay if they enact any form of gun prohibition. They have bigger fish to fry; like turning the U.S. into a welfare state like France. Maybe I’m an optimist but I think that “she will move to renew the ban at a future time of her own choosing” is just a sop to her disappointed gun ban supporters.
If the current mass killings aren’t the right time for a gun ban, I don’t know what is. I also think that the huge amount of scholarship on the role of firearms ownership and carrying decreasing crime has educated enough of the populace to be either pro-gun ownership or skeptical of gun bans.