In your opinion, the AWB will:

So what will happen in September? The AWB will....

  • Be replaced with a new, permanent, AWB.

    Votes: 59 41.0%

  • Fade into history, allowing us our rightful freedoms.

    Votes: 85 59.0%
  • Total voters
    144
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The GOP will stop renewal of the ban . . . IF AND ONLY IF WE HOLD THEIR FEET TO THE FIRE!!

There are too many RINOs and fellow travelers in the ranks of the GOP to trust them to do the right thing without encouragement of the "carrot and stick" variety.

Me, I write letters - short, succinct, and pithy, not long diatribes - to my elected legislators. When there's a national issue of this importance, I write to my STATE legislators, too. I let them know that even though they're in the STATE government, as members of the SAME party as my U.S. reps and senators, I hold them equally responsible if bad legislation passes. After all, the House, Senate, and White House are all controlled by the GOP, my State senator and State representative are GOP . . . if bad legislation passes, it will ONLY be because of the GOP - all one party.

And if the AWB is renewed or extended, I'll hold the PARTY responsible, and I won't vote for ANYONE from the GOP at ANY level of government, even if he's running for third assistant dogcatcher.
 
I don't see it. I mean, haven't we seen a number of votes passed recently by mere voice vote, in the middle of the night, so no-one can be held accountable.

"They ayes have it." :barf:

I don't see this one going away. It might wait until after the election, but it's staying. Or getting worse.
 
Most gun owners support the AWB. It's only the hard core gun owners like us that even care.

My wife is very typical. She is very tollerant and supports my rights to buy, own and shoot, hunt and carried concealed all I want. Yet when you say "assault" weapon, she just doesn't understand why I want to own one.

The reality is the AWB is going to get renewed. Period. You can bitch and moan all you want. That's just the way it is.

Why the hell would Bush support repealing it? He's got far more important issues to spend his political capitol on. Pleasing the conservative wing of gun owners ain't it.

And I like black guns! I just recognize the politcal reality.


John
 
Why the hell would Bush support repealing it?
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If it came to actually VOTING to repeal it, we'd be S.O.L., despite our "friends" in the GOP.

BUT . . . and this is a very important BUT . . . the AWB can go away simply if Congress does NOTHING.

It's always easier to do nothing than it is to stand up and actually vote FOR or AGAINST something.
 
If we do our part, the AWB renewal will die.

The bill has to pass the House in order to be renewed and the House Judiciary Committee has 33 members - 20 of which are GOA A-Rated.

So the only way that bill is leaving committee without severe alterations is if we get backstabbed, not by one; but by THREE different GOA A-Rated legislators. Even then it will have to pass a House that has a strong pro-gun majority.

The only way this bill isn't going to die is if gunowners are completely absent from the political battlefield and if we are so lazy that even GOA A-rated legislators are willing to vote against us then we pretty much deserve what we get.

As for the bill getting renewed after the election, that will depend entirely on the makeup of the House and Senate. The Republicans will have to make major changes to the membership of the House Judiciary committee before any ban is going to get passed pre or post election - so until the next legislative session committees are drawn up, no ban is going to pass and the next chance to significantly change the House Judiciary committee doesn't come until February 2005. Personally, I don't see it; but the make-up of the Judiciary committees will be a good indicator of where the majority party plans to go with that (for example Democratic Senate Judiciary committee members like Schumer, Feinstein, etc make it pretty plain where they are headed).
 
I voted for number one but ....

It will fade away for now, but in a few years the freedoms we gain back will likely be legislated over with a more restrictive ban. Maybe it'll happen incrimentally, banning a bit here and there, but the end result will likely be worse.


I guess I'm not an optimist, eh?
 
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