I'm not a big fan of guns. I would never own one and frankly I feel like I have no need to. So, why do people feel they need guns? For personal protection? To hunt? Well, what kind of guns would these two tasks require? Certainly not an A-K 47. I'd love to see someone hunt with that then be able to eat the meat they have claimed with rounds of bullets in it. Awesome time. But I guess this is were personal defense comes into play. Do you really feel so unsafe, so threatened all the time that you need a gun in your house hold? And if your one of these people that do, does it need to be an "assault weapon" that has been banned for ten years now? That law used to ban "...more than a dozen types of military-style assault weapons, including A-K 47's." In fact, when you get down to it, the list of what has been banned can be found when playing Halo. "The law bans 19 specific weapons that have a detachable ammunition magazine or have more than one of the listed military features: folding stocks, protruding pistol grips, bayonet mounts, threaded muzzles, flash suppressors, barrel shrouds or grenade launchers." Yeah, next time you need a grenade launcher let me know. Id love to hear your reasoning. I guess the part that really gets me is that gun owners support renewing the ban. "An overwhelming majority of the public, including gun owners, supports the ban. A survey by the Consumer Federation of America showed that 74 percent of Americans want the government to renew the ban, and 52 percent of gun owners favor it. Sixty-three percent of Americans want the law strengthened."

If Bush cant be bothered to take something like this into consideration I dont know why he is in office. Listening to the public as well as acting on their wishes should be easy enough for him to do if the demands are reasonable. I for one think they are.
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