Oh, and for those five people out there...

[solarbird]

Oh, and for those five people out there still supporting the Bush administration because of gun rights, please to buy a fucking clue:

Gun Control Bill Seeks to Close 'Terror Gap'
By Susan Jones
CNSNews.com Senior Editor
May 02, 2007

(CNSNews.com) - A Second Amendment group says Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should resign as the nation's highest ranking law enforcement officer, given his "troubling support" for a new gun control bill that seeks to close the "terror gap" in federal law.

S. 1237 would give the attorney general, a presidential appointee, the authority to suspend or cancel someone's Second Amendment right, even if that person has never been charged with a crime, the Second Amendment Foundation warned.

[...]

SAF founder Alan Gottlieb said the bill "raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a 'suspected terrorist.' Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one's name off such a list."

There's also a larger concern, Gottlieb added: "When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone's constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?"

Leaving aside how some of us have been complaining about this for years now, and leaving aside the insane idea that somehow arbitrary arrest and detention without charges on Presidential whim is somehow not as bad as this, I just need to add LEARN, DAMMIT! ABSOLUTISTS DON'T SHARE POWER. THAT INCLUDES WITH YOU. FIGURE THAT THE FUCK OUT NOW PLEASE.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

The NRA didn't support Boosh and his cronies until late in the election, and then only because the Democratic candidate was so rabidly anti-gun. They've never said much favorable about him. The SAF's response has been similarly cool. But, yeah, they should have seen this coming.

(Lifetime NRA and SAF member, here, and I voted Libertarian.)

[wrog]

wait, John Kerry was rabidly anti-gun?

In what universe?

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He had an F rating from the NRA and other gun rights groups had similar opinions.

He was infamous for making comments to the press implying he was pro-gun ("I am a hunter.") and saying and doing things which demonstrated just the opposite.

[wrog]

saying and doing things which demonstrated just the opposite

for example?

[dustin-00.livejournal.com]

You don't need to worry about it -- Gonzo will forget he introduced it by next Monday.

He'll also likely not recall who the current president is, as well.