Dem Leaders: Please curtail the gun control agenda so we can win for once!

[DaveSZ]

http://www.msnbc.com/news/985341.asp?0cl=c3

I'm a liberal who believes in the Bill of Rights!

Our party needs to embrace the Bill of Rights (all of it), and then we can regain the center of the country. The Democratic Party is the best at protecting civil rights, civil liberties, and the Constitution, so why not the 2nd Amendment? Even if you believe the 2nd is a collective state's right and not an individual right, most state constitutions provide for private ownership rights of firearms. The only way we can regain control of Washington, is by realizing and respecting that. I live in Texas, and I know how effective Republican attacks charging Democrats with wanting to confiscate your guns are. Let’s not give them any more “ammo” (so to speak) please.

Gun control cost us the House, and it cost Al Gore (along with other factors) West Virginia and his home state of Tennessee. My heart literally sank when I saw Kerry and Edwards voting for more gun control legislation.

It's not worth being a minority party to ban 19 firearms!

It's not worth letting our children suffer with crumbling schools to ban 19 firearms!

It's not worth letting 40 million Americans go without healthcare to ban 19 firearms!

It's not worth letting the Repubs trash our environment that is the sacred heritage of every American to ban 19 firearms!

It's not worth another 4 years of preemptive unilateral war to ban 19 firearms!

I mean Jesus, let's think of the bigger picture for christsake.

How many people will die and suffer from not having health insurance for themselves and their children vs. people who are killed from so-called "assault" weapons? The AWB is such an idiotic piece of legislation as well because all it mostly does is ban certain cosmetic features on various firearms like a bayonet mount.

Why the heck do we need a law to ban a bayonet mount?

That's idiotic.

How did Ben Chandler win in Kentucky? He had an "A" from the NRA, Sierra Club, and League of Conservation voters.

Outdoorsmen care about the environment too, and if we respect their rights to own firearms, they will also be in the pro-environment camp.

I want them desperately on our side.


P.S. Howard Dean, meggaditos on your ideas about guns buddy, and I hope your ideas become a part of the new platform.