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Gun victim's dad wore son's shoes to NRA
| Sun, 04-18-2004 - 8:29am |
Gun victim's dad wore son's shoes to NRA meeting.
A man whose son was killed in the Columbine High School shootings literally walked in his child's shoes to the National Rifle Association convention, where he hoped Vice President Dick Cheney would address the federal assault weapons ban set to expire in September.
Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed with an assault weapon in the Littleton, Colorado, killings five years ago Tuesday, said continuing the ban is common sense.
Assault weapons "are the weapons of gangs, drug lords and sick people," Mauser said before his three-block march to the convention, which runs through Sunday. "It is a weapon of war and we don't want this war on our streets."
Mauser challenged Cheney to speak about extending the ban when the vice president delivered the convention's keynote address Saturday night. More..........
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Northeast/04/17/nra.convention.cheney.ap/index.html
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Also, the one major flaw with any gun control law is that the criminals do not care what the law says, and will be able to get their hands on any weapons they want regardless.
The only thing that laws of this nature due is prevent the law abiding citizen from purchasing a gun.
I personaly dont think that the average american needs to own an automatic weapon, but putting a law in place is not going to stop the criminals from using them.
The only thing that may help deter violent crime is to strengthen and uphold the current laws on the books with regards to violent crime.
For instance, if you commit a crime using a gun, it should automatically carry an additional 5 or 10 years (without parole) to your sentence. If you shoot someone during the course of a crime, without killing that person, you should automatically be sentenced to life. (attempted murder)
1) Why does anyone tied to any campaign speak at political rallies? Votes perhaps?
2) The fact that supporters yell to vote for their favored candidate speaks volumes about them in the first place
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3) To which average Americans are you referring? I am not aware of average Americans keeping arsenals of assault rifles.
Isn't Soros a US
My mistake. You are correct. He was naturalized sometime in or shortly after 1956.
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I agree. And add to that unions, some questionable environment groups...
That's why I quit while I was ahead. ;)
Could be interesting, but I'll have to wait and see.
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If they plan on alternate programming for the TV such as coverage of the IPSC matches, or other shooting events, then it may be a bit more interesting. To watch hours of people talk about the need to stop gun control efforts, well, to me, I would watch for about 10 minutes (if that long).
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LOL Exactly!
>"shooting events"<
Don't they have those on TV? Our cable carries 20 or more sports channels.
Catch my DH watching those fishing competitions.
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