September 16, 2004
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This was a note I wrote on Sunday, intending to send to Fox News Channel (FNC), but didn't because I blanked on the address to send it to:
While Mr. 'Splainer Man is certainly right that there are 2nd amendment rights, and that they are not absolute (for example felons and other prohibited possessors), he is absolutely wrong about fully-automatic weapons (Uzis, etc.) being banned.
There is a tax "stamp" and almost anyone with a clean background and enough money to buy the weapon and tax stamp together can own one. Would Thompson Center still continue to make Thompson Machine Guns (which they do), if no one could own one? However some semi-autos are banned based solely on magazine capacity and/or country of origin. The ban is pointless, hypocritical and can not be proven to have helped in ANY way claimed.
Much like the fantasy that right to carry laws increase crime (can be demonstrated to have reduce it EVERY TIME tried), the so called "Clinton weapons ban" is a feel-good, but otherwise pointless example of politics run amok and rights being trampled in the name of political glory/grandstanding.
Perhaps he should understand the facts before he 'splains them?
By the way, while using the NRA "lobby" to talk about Kerry's gun positions, I think it is a cleaner argument that he's rated 100% by Sarah Brady's lobbies ... I guess the NRA is just a more PC scapegoat? When I see things like this, I worry about FNC becoming another CNN ... PLEASE don't do that!
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Another plug for the book ... read it to see how Kerry is linked to communism, treason, and assorted other crimes solely to further his own glory!
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