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...Varieties of assault weapon that will be allowed on the market again, following Congress's refusal to extend the assault-weapons ban...
...ones favoring radical changes to the status quo in all sorts of situations. Republicans now want to remove large numbers of troops from Germany and South Korea, democratize the Middle East, follow the “Bush doctrine” of preemption, and amend the constitution to ban gay-marriage. While not textbook “liberal” positions, these policies are nonetheless very serious changes to the status quo. “Liberal” can have all sorts of different meanings, but in modern American parlance it has come to denote someone who is left wing?...
Lobbyists for the National Rifle Association, who insist that the public is not in fact in favor of the ban, have argued that the law has huge loopholes. Indeed, some gun manufacturers have been producing weapons with slight cosmetic changes to sidestep the intent of the law. Senate Majority Leader Tom Delay, R.-Texas, has derided the ban as an ineffective “feel-good piece of legislation.” To be sure, whatever ambiguity existing in the current legislation is problematic. But the existence of loopholes is not an argument for throwing out the ban altogether...
Still, the most shameful aspect of this entire ordeal is the way in which President Bush has attempted to reap political benefits from both sides of the issue. While publicly calling for an extension to the popular ban, with a wink and a nod to the gun lobby Bush has refused to lift a finger to persuade Congress. He prefers to blame Congress for their inaction, but the true blame lies with his own insincerity...
...bylaws already ban any meeting during the summer, and they also ban, in my opinion, passing legislation in the total absence of a meeting,” Keenan said...