This is a joke, right? OK, I was being snarky... The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill t
May 3, 2007

This is a joke, right? OK, I was being snarky...

The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.

In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat."...read on

Sure, just load everybody up with guns. Mental patients, McVeighians, Koreshians, Rudolph-anti-abortionists and terrorists....Derbyshire might say that as long as enough of us are armed too than it wouldn't matter much just as long as Americans didn't act cowardly and all...

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