To deny AK-47s and Uzis to terror suspects is downright un-American according to the National Rifle Association:
The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects.Think of all the things the Bush administration has done, all the laws they've broken, all the rights they've taken away, in order to "fight terror." They've tapped our phones, read our emails, thrown us in jail without the right to an attorney or even a trial, assumed that we're guilty until proven innocent. But all of that, we are told, is necessary if we are to stop suspected terrorists from killing another 3,000 Americans, or worse, killing 1 million Americans with a nuke.
In a letter this week to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, NRA executive director Chris Cox said the bill, offered last week by Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat."
But God forbid a suspected terrorist isn't permitted to buy an Uzi. Oh no, we wouldn't want to take away the constitutional rights of a suspected terrorist to buy the weapons he needs to kill us all. No, that would be un-American. Will the anti-gun movement in this country finally come back from its extended vacation in obscurity? Will Democrats finally realize that permitting suspected terrorists to buy Uzis so they can then go to shopping malls and kill mom and little Jimmy in a hail of bullets just might be a losing issue for George Bush and the Republicans? Don't bet on it. And don't bet on George Bush ever saying no to the NRA. They're working out of his office:
