Bartholomew Roberts
Member
Kerry has voted 100% in accordance with the Brady Campaign on gun issues. Every vote he has cast since 1991 followed the Brady line exactly.
Kerry has voted to kill CMP twice.
Kerry co-sponsored a bill to extend the ban on semi-autos to practically all semi-autos ever made (including the Remington 11-87 he was given by the mine union).
Will Bush sign legislation repealing gun laws? Sure looks like he will since he has in his first term and seems unwilling to veto. Not only that but with a chance to pick up as many as four seats in the Senate (based on last polling), he may get the chance to sign some more repeals.
Will Kerry sign legislation repealing gun laws? Seems unlikely since he has a whole list of new gun laws he thinks we need and has never acted against the Brady Campaign once despite being a politician who is more than willing to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Is there any realistic chance that any third party candidate with a better stance on guns will get elected? No, there is no realistic chance. The LP has never polled higher than 1.1% in any national election since 1972. They haven't polled as high as 1.1% since 1980. The Constitution Party is so far below that number that the voting of the LP might as well be birds in the sky to them.
Will voting for a third-party "Send a message" to the Republicans? Well, assuming that Kerry wins AND the pro-liberty parties manage to accumulate more votes than the socialist parties (in 2000 they were beaten 3-1 by socialist party votes), then MAYBE it will send a message.
Of course then you have to wonder whether the message you send will be the same one the Republicans receive. Will they hear "Socialists have more votes and are easier to get on our side"? "No point in fighting gun control as we don't get votes for opposing it"? "I bet we can move to the left and pick up disappointed centrist Dems easier than we can get those cranky old bastards"? or "Maybe we should be more libertarian"?
Now if you think that risking the election of Kerry is worth the off-chance that you send a message to the Republican party and they actually recieve the message as you intended to send it, then all I can say is we disagree about the relative risks to our freedom involved and the proposed benefits from it.
Kerry has voted to kill CMP twice.
Kerry co-sponsored a bill to extend the ban on semi-autos to practically all semi-autos ever made (including the Remington 11-87 he was given by the mine union).
Will Bush sign legislation repealing gun laws? Sure looks like he will since he has in his first term and seems unwilling to veto. Not only that but with a chance to pick up as many as four seats in the Senate (based on last polling), he may get the chance to sign some more repeals.
Will Kerry sign legislation repealing gun laws? Seems unlikely since he has a whole list of new gun laws he thinks we need and has never acted against the Brady Campaign once despite being a politician who is more than willing to talk out of both sides of his mouth.
Is there any realistic chance that any third party candidate with a better stance on guns will get elected? No, there is no realistic chance. The LP has never polled higher than 1.1% in any national election since 1972. They haven't polled as high as 1.1% since 1980. The Constitution Party is so far below that number that the voting of the LP might as well be birds in the sky to them.
Will voting for a third-party "Send a message" to the Republicans? Well, assuming that Kerry wins AND the pro-liberty parties manage to accumulate more votes than the socialist parties (in 2000 they were beaten 3-1 by socialist party votes), then MAYBE it will send a message.
Of course then you have to wonder whether the message you send will be the same one the Republicans receive. Will they hear "Socialists have more votes and are easier to get on our side"? "No point in fighting gun control as we don't get votes for opposing it"? "I bet we can move to the left and pick up disappointed centrist Dems easier than we can get those cranky old bastards"? or "Maybe we should be more libertarian"?
Now if you think that risking the election of Kerry is worth the off-chance that you send a message to the Republican party and they actually recieve the message as you intended to send it, then all I can say is we disagree about the relative risks to our freedom involved and the proposed benefits from it.
I wonder if anybody will still be able to utter the words, "party of limited government" without breaking down and laughing, after this administration is through?