Do we have a friend in the "White" House

[TMan]

President Obama, after meeting Thursday with Mexico's president, signaled he is backing away from his pledge to renew the U.S. ban on assault weapons but still wishes to stop the cross-border flow of guns that wind up in the arsenals of drug cartels.

The military-style assault weapon ban expired in 2004, and Obama faced an uphill political battle in winning a renewal of the law, which is unpopular in key political states and among Republicans and some conservative Democrats.

Obama said Thursday he preferred to focus on enforcing existing laws to keep assault weapons out of Mexico, rather than trying to renew the U.S. ban on the weapons.

On the other hand - can we believe anything this guy says?

["DoubleAction"]

"I'm the guy who originally wrote the assualt weapons ban"

Joe Biden

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (VCCLEA; also known as the Biden Crime Law) was an act of Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement that became law in 1994. It is the largest crime bill in the history of the US and will provide for 100,000 new police officers, $9.7 billion in funding for prisons and $6.1 billion in funding for prevention programs which were designed with significant input from experienced police officers. [1] Sponsored by U.S. Representative Jack Brooks of Texas, the bill was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.

Following the 101 California Street shootings and other high-profile instances of violent crime, the act expanded federal law in several ways. One of the most noted sections was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Other parts of the act provided for a greatly expanded federal death penalty, new classes of individuals banned from possessing firearms, and a variety of new crimes defined in statutes relating to immigration law, hate crimes, sex crimes, and gang-related crime.

www.answers.com/topic/violent-crime-control-and-law-enforcement-act

[TMan]

Is there any chance that a liberal might actually understand that there won't be police there to protect them all the time because that isn't the role of the police - they investigate crimes.

I do agree that you don't want guns in the hands of certain people, and that the more guns that there are on the street, the greater the chances that they will fall into the hands of the wrong people. If I didn't have money, my kids were hungry, and somebody offered me $500 for my Jennings (not the engraved one of course ;D ), I'd be very tempted to make a sale.

If there were no guns in the world, I think the world would be a somewhat safer place. The people in China don't have guns and they don't have the crime rate that we have here in the US. Pull a knife on someone in China and you had better hope it isn't Jackie Chan. They do practice marshal arts for protection. However, if you pull a knife, are caught and tried, you will go to prison for a long time. Their prisons are a lot different than ours: no bleeding heart liberals or judges to get reduced sentences.

Unfortunately, when Japan invaded China they shot and killed the men and raped the women. The Chinese were sheep that couldn't protect themselves - no guns.

So the "weapons ban" should include all weapons, knives, forks, anything that could do harm to someone else.

When the Somali pirates come to our shores, we will have an ample police force to protect us - if our laws allow it. Speaking of laws: how stupid is this:

NAIROBI, Kenya — A NATO spokesman says alliance warships and helicopters have foiled an attack on a Norwegian tanker by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

Portuguese Lt. Cmdr. Alexandre Santos Fernandes says NATO interrogated, disarmed and released the pirates after a dramatic overnight chase involving Canadian and American forces.

The pirates attacked the MV Front Ardenne late on Saturday but fled after crew alerted warships in the area. The pirates fled in their small skiff and were pursued by ship and helicopter for hours but only stopped after repeated warning shots were fired.

Lt. Cmdr. Fernandes said Sunday that the pirates were released because they cannot be prosecuted under Canadian law. He said the decision to detain pirates was a matter for national authorities not NATO.

Pirate attacks have increased in recent weeks, with fishermen-turned-gunmen from Somalia searching for targets further out to sea as ships try to avoid the anarchic, clan-ruled nation.

Pirates have attacked more than 80 boats this year alone, nearly four times the number assaulted in 2003, according to the Kuala Lumpur-based International Maritime Bureau.

["DoubleAction"]

TMan; I had the chance to have my questions answered while at a meeting with one my elected officials last week. I began by telling him I was concerned gun owner, this how he answered.

Let me remind everyone, this not the end; The Government is now conducting their own experiments on the success rates of the "Play Dead" arts of self defense. Many prefer this later method to the run hide techniques, because of over weight issues.

[blueglass]

They should blow the pirates out of the water. That is something they may understand instead of catch and release all the time.I would think they would slow down a bit when they are being shot all to H-ll in their attack boats. No mercy at all. They have killed honest sailors so its time to really shoot back.

[madmax003]

Hey, I live in Europe, Prague, but want to move to Texas to buy many guns. <deleted>