Comments on: Election summary – The guns edition

By: Ron W

Ron W — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 13:53:26 +0000

Re: a “no loop hole” AW ban,I don’t know about others, but my so-called “assault weapons” are kept in my bedroom gun case. So if some leftist Democrats want to enact a law to “turn them all in”, I thought they were the same ones who SAY they want to protect our civil liberties and want to “keep the government out of our bedrooms”–or does that only apply to sodomy and such and snuffing out innocent unborn lives for any and all resaons?

By: Jay G

Jay G — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:44:56 +0000

SKSs are still available from many sources for ~$90 for good condition and under $150 for excellent to unissued.

If you don’t have a C&R (Curios & Relics license), get one. Best $30 I’ve ever spent, bar none…

By: Captain Holly

Captain Holly — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:06:51 +0000

Didn’t know that, but I’m not surprised. Supporting gun control in Nevada would be like voting to ban casino gambling (but banning internet gambling would be okay, since that would help Nevada).

This is one of the many conflicts Reid and Pelosi are going to have over the next two years. Reid’s no conservative, but he’s not a wild-eyed loopy leftist, either.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:59:59 +0000

Reid opposes the AWB.

By: Captain Holly

Captain Holly — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:55:47 +0000

I know that before the election I was one of the Cassandras warning of Doom if the Democrats took control of one or both Houses of Congress. And yes, things are much worse for gun owners right now compared to before November 7th, if only because a hard-left San Francisco liberal is now second in line to the US presidency.

But the Democrats are in a delicate situation here. Almost all of the 32 seats they took from Republicans in the House were “red”; ie, the districts voted for Bush in 2004. And in about half of those districts they won by less than 5,000 votes, meaning that in 2008 those Democrat freshmen are going to have an uphill battle getting reelected regardless of what they do during the next two years.

The Senate is roughly the same: I can’t really see newly-elected Senators Tester and Webb enthusiastically supporting an AW Ban. It will take alot of arm-twisting by Majority Leader Reid to get them to go along with it, and Reid himself will be under alot of pressure from Nevada voters to kill the bill.

This means these freshmen are going to have to choose between Pelosi-style liberalism and getting re-elected. The more I look at it the more I think there’s going to be a big, bloody fight for control of the Democrat party during the next two years, and the issue that sparks it will likely be gun control.

Should be very entertaining.