Turning Back the Clock

 

Prepare yourself for a shock !  Congress wants the Wild West to make a comeback.  Recently Congress permitted the Assault Weapons Ban to lapse, thereby permitting any gun-totting nut to go out and get himself an AK47 or some other machine gun for…err.. ‘home defense’.  On September 25th, the House of Representatives voted on bill HR3193 which repealed gun control laws in the District of Columbia.  The measure, sponsored by Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ill.), legalizes possession of handguns, semiautomatic weapons and even armor-piercing bullets in the federal city.  Cops in D.C. must just love that.  As if that weren’t enough, the bill also permits possession of unregistered weapons.  The bill passed 250 to 171.  Yippee.  The Wild West is back !  But D.C. is in the East ?  Who cares stupid, it’s the thought that matters.

 

Meanwhile at the Washington D.C. airports, Dulles and Reagan National, the Metropolitan Airports Authority, unanimously agreed to permit passengers and other airport visitors to carry guns, knives and other weapons.  Really ! I couldn’t make this stuff up even if I wanted to.  Is this what Homeland Security is supposed to be like ?

Please someone wake me up from this nightmare, tell it isn’t so.  Please, someone, anyone ?

 

By the way, the very same day, a 39-year-old housewife was found guilty of possession of a high-powered rifle on school property, the school where her 12-year-old son had previously threatened to shoot people back in June. Had enough, or you want more ?

Well here is just one more item to consider… a couple of days before also in Virginia, about 30 pro NRA protestors strode into Falls Church Town Hall, with handguns strapped to their hips, demanding their right to bear arms. The town council was considering legislation related to guns.  Most on the town council were said to be ‘shaking in their boots.’ Only in America, right ?

 

V.S. /Editor

 

Posted  October  8, 2004

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