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July 20, 2004The AWB, Crime, etc...My thanks to a reader for pointing out an interesting discussion going on over at Matthew Yglesias about the "assault weapons" ban. Plenty of comments on both sides of the issue. One of the arguments for the ban that comes up is that aside from these "weapons of mass killing, " no one wants to ban all guns and the NRA is "lying" about a slippery slope. Several readers correctly point out that this is patently false. Several leftist politicians have repeatedly said they would ban all private citizen gun ownership if they could. So have many of their supporters (such as Hollywood denizens). In addition, all anyone need do is look at what has happened in England and Australia (I've written about it countless times here) to see that there IS a slippery slope. Indeed, in another contentious issue, abortion, isn't that why the "pro-choice" crowd fights so hard against ANY restrictions such as "partial-birth-abortion"? There's more at Winds of Change. Comments
Who could get the idea they want to ban all guns with organizations like "National Coalition to Ban Handguns" and "Handgun Free America"? Posted by: Ken Summers at July 20, 2004 09:27 AMAnd wasn't it Chuck Schumer who said "[The NRA] worries about the camel's nose under the tent. Well here's the whole camel"? Posted by: Ken Summers at July 20, 2004 09:29 AMGee, whatever would make you think they want to ban all guns: "Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), on CBS` "60 Minutes"-- "If I could have gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, Mr. and Mrs. America, turn them all in, I would have done it." the comment input form disappears. Your comments are welcome. You don't need to enter a URL and you don't need a "valid" email address, either. Note though that MT Blacklist is installed to flag suspiciously spam-like strings. Unfortunately, because of the bastard spammers, the strings "google.com" and "yahoo.com" (even in your email address) are currently banned as well. So are strings such as "cialis" (a common spam) which rules out words such as "socialism". Try putting a hyphan in a word like that. By Golly, you're reading an archived post. Click Here to head to the main page and read current stuff...Into science fiction? Check out my group blog novel, Colony: Alchibah. See the reader's guide there for first-timer tips. |
