Probably well thought out good decision by NRA. For a lot of folks, ol' Charlton Heston holding up that musket and saying "from my cold dead hands" in Denver a week after Columbine still sticks in their craw57Coastie wrote:I can tell you something I do not see yet, and that is something on the NRA website. Is that good news for us, or bad news? I will not be surprised to see the MSM to pick up on this before this is over.A-R wrote: What reaction are y'all seeing from those who're not the usual anti-gun suspects?
Jim
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- Fri Dec 14, 2012 5:03 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
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Re: Well Here We Go
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:47 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
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Re: Well Here We Go
Recommend you delete this partgeekwagun wrote:I was not a gun owner during the AWB period. If there is a total ban, no grandfathering, what do you think that would look like? Will the feds take the records from all the gun stores and track down the evil guns? Will there be house to house searches?
I just bought an AR10 yesterday - so I have skin in the game now.
- Fri Dec 14, 2012 4:23 pm
- Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
- Topic: Well Here We Go
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Re: Well Here We Go
I hate to think this much less post it, but from the vibe I'm getting reading FB posts from folks who typically don't care about the gun issue either way (or are even slighly pro gun) this could be THE ONE - the tragedy that pushes the gun control agenda back to the forefront. It happened in England. It happened in Australia. It happened to a degree here (1994 AWB following 1991 Killeen mass murder, amongst others).
I hope I'm wrong and just misreading the tea leaves as they blow hard from the emotional wind of this tragedy. But this one seems different somehow in the way people are reacting - like they're finally fed up. The child victims are likely what does it to people (in some ways, can't say I blame them - nothing more horrific than a dead child).
Yesterday, renewal of AWB seemed unlikely. Today, I dunno. The way people are reacting emotionally to this - and the anti-gun lobby's certainty to "never let a tragedy go to waste", I'm even wondering if an AWB with no grandfathering (turn 'em all in or become a Federal criminal) might be possible with regards to so-called "assault weapons".
Again, I hope I'm wrong and just over-reacting to the reaction I've read so far. But this one seems different.
What reaction are y'all seeing from those who're not the usual anti-gun suspects?
I hope I'm wrong and just misreading the tea leaves as they blow hard from the emotional wind of this tragedy. But this one seems different somehow in the way people are reacting - like they're finally fed up. The child victims are likely what does it to people (in some ways, can't say I blame them - nothing more horrific than a dead child).
Yesterday, renewal of AWB seemed unlikely. Today, I dunno. The way people are reacting emotionally to this - and the anti-gun lobby's certainty to "never let a tragedy go to waste", I'm even wondering if an AWB with no grandfathering (turn 'em all in or become a Federal criminal) might be possible with regards to so-called "assault weapons".
Again, I hope I'm wrong and just over-reacting to the reaction I've read so far. But this one seems different.
What reaction are y'all seeing from those who're not the usual anti-gun suspects?