Congress and new gun laws

[Bruce Day]

My youngest son, age 23 and a May 2009 graduate of the University of Kansas, obtained a position on the Hill as the executive assistant to a Kansas congressman, a member of the Blue Dog Democrat Coalition. These are Democrats who are pro life, anti more gun laws and are about as conservative as most moderate Republicans. This is a sizable group within the Democrat Party, yet the uninformed group all Democrats as the same, mistakenly believing that all support the same programs. Nothing could be further from the truth. Yet, I am told, every time some crackpot files one of these bills, his office gets constituent calls about how the Democrats are taking away gun rights and how the Democrats are anti American. They have to explain that they do not support these bills, they have no support and no chance of getting out of committee, much less making it into law.

These crackpot bills get filed every year by the few true anti gun activists in Congress and they die there. The sky is not falling.

[Bob K]

Bruce, I know you don't think the sky is falling, but what would you have done with your precious Parkers if you were in the wake of Katrina? The authorities didn't care if you had Parkers or Sears Roebuck shotguns. I know a lot of gun owners say it can't happen here, but look around, it already has.
Thomas Jefferson was spot on; The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.