Alphecca

I agree with all your comments, except it's not correct to call a revolver a semi-automatic. Not that it matters, though.

True, a revolver isn't correctly called a semi-auto, but the GFW definition for semi-auto is "one trigger pull, one shot" so look for them to grab your revolvers too when they ban semi-auto handguns.

With logic like that, it's a wonder that the LAPD hasn't wiped out all crime in southern california.

Fmr. President Clinton has pretty much conceded that 2nd Amd. issues may have lost the 2000 presidential election for the Democratic party. That experience can't have been lost on J.F. Kerry's campaign team. Though they seem inept much of the time they may have come to the same conclusion as Clinton did. They just can't afford to have the AWB become a front-burner issue this election cycle so don't be surprised if it doesn't even get a mention from them. In the same spirit, I don't recall much from the Republican hierarchy concerning abortion lately either...
My prediction is that the AWB will die a natural death as scheduled, but will be dug up and given the Frankenstein Treatment by the Democrats if J.F. Kerry is elected. Since even rabid anti-gun zealots concede that the AWB hasn't affected gun crime in the least it will be clear that greater restrictions will be necessary. I believe that the next push will be towards banning all semi-automatic weapons entirely. The first AWB didn't work as intended, the New, Improved Version just might.
Moving slowly but surely always in the same direction is how the anti-gun crew has learned it must work. The process of banning firearms is like growing an apple tree. It takes many years of watering, weeding, pruning, and care before the first fruits will appear and if you slack off for a few years the tree might just die and you would have to start over. But, when the tree does bear fruit, it will bear a lot of fruit.
Tim Deters

Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe compared the NRA to terrorists in his piece this morning. He says "Unlike desperate demagogues like Dick Cheney this week, I wouldn't dream of taking the obvious cheap shot of linking my ideological opponents to terrorists and criminals..."

This bit of "poetic license" is very clever. I could say, for example, that Thomas Oliphant has never been caught beating his wife and that would be a perfectly true statement. I would never dream of saying Oliphant and wife-beaters both prefer women submit to a mandatory five day waiting period before buying a handgun for self-defense, because that would be inelegant.