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I think we're mostly in agreement: my argument is that today Obama eposes the "I support the right to bear arms, but not assault weapons" and "I won't take away
by strlen 14y ago
I think we're mostly in agreement: my argument is that today Obama eposes the "I support the right to bear arms, but not assault weapons" and "I won't take away your gun" position.
What is fairly clear is that organizations that came up with the term "assault weapon" and are pushing for them to be banned are explicitly and openly in favor of confiscation. of far more than "assault weapons".
- hga 14y agoAnd Obama has not changed since the 2008 campaign, when he said just that, although of course the devil is in the details. His Congressional allies are reaching for much more than a renewal of the 1994 AW ban. E.g. DiFi from memory: 1, not 2 features, NFA registration, no transfers and your guns must be disposed of when you die, and I'm pretty sure no importation of > 10 round magazines. And of course she's on record in the CBS 60 Minutes interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5H8vqZxVHs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5H8vqZxVHs , http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7380236n http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7380236n "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 'em all in, I would have done it. I could not do that. The votes weren't here."