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Re: 2:00pm vote on gun control
At 11:58 AM 6/18/99 -0700, you wrote:
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>Attorney General Janet Reno concurred, saying the vote is "a very big step
>backwards." and "incomprehensible."
I think that many things are incomprehensible to her.
>Supporters of the measure said it would help restore the rights of
law-abiding
>citizens, but Clinton accused them of squeaking the legislation through
"in the dead of night" when the average American might not notice.
At least everyone in the house got to vote on it, unlike certain political
appointments done while they were on recess. He's standing on a firm
foundation of quicksand with this accusation.
>"So one more time, the Congress of the United States ... said, 'We don't care
>what's necessary to protect our children. We can't possibly bear to make
anyone
>in the NRA mad,"' Clinton said bitterly in a morning-after exchange with
>reporters in Cologne, Germany.
To say nothing of the American citizens. I guess we just don't count.
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>Clinton, who is attending a world economic conference in Cologne, Germany,
>said, "Instead of closing the deadly gun-show loophole, the House of
Now its not just a loophole, but a deadly one.
>Representatives voted in the dead of night to let criminals keep buying
guns at
>gun shows. This vote will not stand the light of day. I will keep working
until
>Congress stands up to the gun lobby and makes the commonsense measures passed
There's that "commonsense" again.
>by the Senate the law of the land."
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>Members approved amendments banning the import of large-capacity clips and
>magazines;
These are known crime causers.
permitting retired and former law enforcement officers to carry
>concealed weapons; prohibiting those under 18 from possessing semiautomatic
>assault weapons;
Is there any other type. (I am talking the legal definition by the US
Congress, not the true definition.)
requiring background checks on those who try to reclaim their
>pawned guns after a year; allowing District of Columbia citizens with no
>criminal history to possess loaded handguns in their homes; and imposing a
>lifetime ownership ban on those who committed "violent acts of juvenile
>delinquency."
Why not just call it crime?
Marc
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