[fabsroman]

denton,

I am an attorney and what your wrote sounds really spot on. Thing is that most people (e.g., antis) only see what they want to see. They see a single "sniper" attack with an AR-15 wherein the assailants were shooting the gun out of a hole cut in the trunk of a vehicle with pillows all around the gun to keep the sound down, and they think that assault weapons need to be banned and there should be no 30 round clips available. Hello, the AR-15 in this case wasn't even used as an "assault weapon". The shots were not long shots and they were generally single shots. The guy could have had no clip whatsoever in the gun and still made the shots. The police also botched the investigation up, which resulted in a couple more deaths before the perps were caught. Maybe we should pass a law requiring law enforcement to have a certain GPA before they get hired. Maybe we should pass a law increasing LEO's salaries so that we can have better LEO's. Some of the LEO's I meet are dumber than a box of rocks. One of them that lives in my neighborhood tried to back her Crown Vic patrol car over a 2 foot high mound of snow into its designated parking spot right next to her townhouse, and she couldn't understand why it was stuck. She was digging under the tires when the car's frame was stuck on top of the snow and the tires were merely dangling there useless. I spent an hour digging her out and really wished I had a winch or a chain for my truck at the time.

Not that gun control isn't an important issue, but I think Congress has a lot more important things to do than to spend time trying to pass a gun ban of any type. When crime and guns become as big an issue as the economy, health care, and retirement, which effects almost every American I know, then Congress should spend a lot of time trying to figure out what it should do with the gun issue. Maybe, just maybe, if the inner city kids weren't living in poverty, things would be a lot better all the way around and they wouldn't be shooting one another left and right or stealing from everybody and their mother. Politicians make me sick.