Assault Weapons Ban Introduced...by Five R.I.N.O.s

[roo_ster]

BOHICA

Hey, why don't we wait around until after JAN2009 and see what Congress has to cook up for us?

'Cause getting riled up before than would be foolish alarmism.

Assault Weapons Ban Introduced...by Five R.I.N.O.s

Define R.I.N.O.: A Republican In Name Only.

Examples of the type of Republican covered under this definition are:

    * Rep. Mark Kirk [R-IL]
    * Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen [R-FL]
    * Rep. Michael Ferguson [R-NJ]
    * Rep. Christopher Shays [R-CT]
    * Rep. Michael Castle [R-DE]

These five supposed Republican are nothing more than jackasses in elephant's clothing. Rep. Mark Kirk has introduced a bill, H.R. 6257: Assault Weapons Ban Reauthorization Act of 2008, which would "reinstate the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act." The bill has been co-sponsored by the other four jackasses listed above. All of them claim to be Republicans.

All of them need to leave the party.

Seriously.

Go.

We don't need your kind anymore. It is this kind of stuff that lost the Republican majority in Congress. No, not this particular issue, but the failure to adhere to Republican values in general. If you want to behave like a gun-grabbing Democrat, go sit on their side. It is better that the Republicans be in the minority, but true to conservative values than to be in the majority with no clear values at all.



The problem with gun violence isn't that law abiding citizens have access to assault weapons (whatever that means.) It's that criminals use them to commit crimes. Read that last sentence. Commit crimes is the key part of that sentence. Having these guns be illegal will not limit the criminal's access to them. It will only make them better armed than their victims.

I found out about this through the Jawa Report, who saw it on The Arsenal. Tip of the hat to both of them.

By the way, the phone number to Rep. Kirk's office is 202-225-4835. Let him know how you feel about his actions.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-6257

[Ryan in Maine]

Wtf? They weren't even on my radar. 

[freedom lover]

Maybe I should start buying preban AK mags soon, before they are banned. I'm now considering buying a saiga in x39 next summer as my first gun, instead of a shotgun. Then may be my only chance to get a cheap hi-cap rifle (before there is an import ban.)

[T.O.M.]

This was introduced back on June 12, 2008.  Has something happened to bring this one back from the dead?  BTW, it has the 10 year end date built in...

[S. Williamson]

Maybe I should start buying preban AK mags soon, before they are banned. I'm now considering buying a saiga in x39 next summer as my first gun, instead of a shotgun. Then may be my only chance to get a cheap hi-cap rifle (before there is an import ban.)

GOOD.  FREAKING.  LUCK. 

Read here: http://www.classicarms.us

[Manedwolf]

This was introduced back on June 12, 2008.  Has something happened to bring this one back from the dead?  BTW, it has the 10 year end date built in...

No. This is from June, no action since it went to committee in July.

Someone posted it on all the gunboards in panic without looking at the date.

[HankB]

This came out several months ago . . . right before I got my "Republican Senate Leadership" survey forms.

I wrote back that as long as the GOP tolerates RINOs like this over in the House (I named names and referred to the number of the bill they'd introduced) there was NO WAY I was going to donate to the RNC . . . if I wanted leftist representation, I'd already be a Democrat.  

[280plus]

Well, Chris Shays lost, to a Democrat of course. 

 

[Sergeant Bob]

The story being old does not reduce it's importance. It stresses the importance of holding our legislators accountable and the need to educate people as to what their elected reps are doing when they think no one is looking.