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| Kerry Ties Weapons Sales, Terror Worries |
| 2004-09-11 |
| EFL - I posted this under "Culture Wars" because America seems to be culturally divided on this issue with respect to our response to terror. John Kerry linked U.S. assault weapon sales to worries about terrorism Friday and said President Bush was bowing to the National Rifle Association by not pushing to keep alive an expiring ban. If Bush is serious about fighting terrorism, the Democratic presidential candidate said, he world extend the 10-year ban on sales of 19 kinds of semiautomatic assault weapons, due to expire on Monday. "In the al-Qaida manual on terror, they were telling people to go out and buy assault weapons, to come to America and buy assault weapons," Kerry said. "Every law enforcement officer in America doesn't want us selling assault weapons in the streets of America," Kerry said. "But George Bush, he says, `Well, I'm for that."' Faced with an incident like Beslan there are some in America that believe that gun control would have prevented the terrorist attack through denying weapons to the butchers. Others in America believe that the terrorists would have been unlikely to stage an attack in the midst of a well-armed populace. Personally, I think that the attack could have been accomplished even if every Ossetian household had an AK. I also believe, though, that wolves prefer to prey on sheep and avoid cougars. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #2 "In the al-Qaida manual on terror, they were telling people to go out and buy assault weapons, to come to America and buy assault weapons," Oh, yeah, right Jawn. Assault weapons are sooooooooooooo hard to acquire in those lovely shithole countries where Al-Qaida hangs out. Must be why everybody in the Middle East walks around with an AK and/or RPG. What a friggin idiot! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-09-11 9:51:31 PM |
| #1 Assault weapons. Why do they hate us? |
| Posted by: Crikey 2004-09-11 5:36:18 PM |