Reply #20: Choose what?

[benEzra]

So you want to pick and choose?

And who will choose--the Gun Owners of America?

Choose what?

I would certainly like candidates to not ban half our guns, yes. Richardson is there, Edwards is moving firmly in that direction, Clinton has been on board the "assault weapon" bait-and-switch in the past but may not be idealogically committed to it (on pragmatic grounds, the ban makes no sense; the guns affected are both very popular and rarely misused). I knew Obama had talked about banning self-loaders back in the '90s, but hoped he would have moved on.

No, I don't like GOA. There's a reason why of America's 80 million gun owners and 30+ million "assault weapon" owners (broadly defined a la H.R.1022), only about 100,000 belong to GOA. That doesn't mean I'm OK with having my guns banned, though.

The "assault weapon" bait-and-switch was a bad idea in '94. It's an even worse idea now, IMHO.