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After conferring with N.R.A. officials, House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senate majority leader Bob Dole decided last week to postpone the vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban, which had been scheduled for next month. The official reason was to give priority to antiterrorism legislation requested by the White House. The real problem was the fear of voters' drawing a connection between the N.R.A. and the probable Oklahoma bombers, who may be affiliated with groups that ferociously oppose gun control...
...equally difficult to predict the case's immediate effects. In addition to inviting challenges to 60 years of legislation based on the Commerce Clause, the decision may prompt a new round of challenges to more recent bills like the assault-weapons ban and the Republican push to put federal limits on state-court damage awards. In his weekly radio address last Saturday, Clinton said he had ordered Attorney General Janet Reno to report within a week on how to make the school gun ban constitutional. In the meantime, Alfonso Lopez is heading to a place where firearms...
Shortly after the 0klahoma bombing, a colleague of Bob Dole's asked him to postpone a vote on repealing the assault-weapons ban enacted last year. Dole refused. "I am not aware of the involvement of so-called assault weapons in the senseless bomb attack," Dole said. On the surface, that's right. The innocents killed April 19 weren't shot. But guns and bombs are connected. The mere presence of weapons can spur violent behavior, and since Timothy McVeigh, the man charged with the Oklahoma horror, was obsessed with guns, the issue is particularly pressing...
...accidents, thus becoming the leading cause of injury-related deaths. Oklahoma's bombing can provide what educators call a "teachable moment'' -- and just because a vital lesson appears to have escaped Bob Dole doesn't mean others can't learn. Outlawing all guns may be impossible, but continuing the ban on assault weapons should be beyond debate...
...this were the case, then it would also have to protect the possession of nuclear weapons, armored tanks and short-range missiles. Handguns are of little value against the U.S. military, and therefore would not be the amendment's concern anyway. As pro-gun advocates presumably accept a ban on the personal possession of nuclear warheads, they are implicitly allowing the government to infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms...