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Now, because of the coverup, combined with the lapse of time, any evidence collection of the alleged “friendly fire” is gone. Witnesses were not interviewed, forensic evidence was not collected and therefore lost….so the Tillman family may have lost, but George W. Bush certainly got something out of it…a propaganda tool who in fact was AGAINST the war and George W. Bush. But exploiting the dead, who cannot speak up for themselves, has always been a right wing specialty. Too bad Maher didn’t have the brains to call Bush on this crap on his show a few weeks ago.

Reg, I think your dismisal of inner city gun restrictions may be too cavilier, or why would N.Y. care about about the lax laws of Virgina?

Again, it seems to me the issues involving the extra fire power of these rapid repeating fire arms might be something the press might want to educate the public about; in their quest to let the public make up it’s mind about the price of a highly narrow (or nonsensical) reading of the second amendment. Otherwise, golly, it might seem like their hand wringing over the Dems might be construte as, well, selective targets.

I hope it passes. But I am afraid it is just a feel good effort. More time should be taken to investigate and analyze how the next Mr. Cho would get around any Gun Store restrictions. I hear he bought ammo and clips on ebay for example, and what prevents one from buying from a private party?

Restriction to Schools and University for anyone declared to be danger to themselves should also be added to this bill, at the descretion of the University, eliminating the current threat of expensive law suits that I am sure acts as a deterent to common sense safety and security decisions of Administrators.

Both sides of the isle must work together to restrict the rights of certain people to not only own firearms, but restrict their right to remain amoungst vernable children and young adults at educational institutions.

That said, the failure to enact stronger gun control legislation is a failure that has drastic impact on city-dwellers. We have failed to persuade small town and rural folks that lives and families’ futures depend on the elimination of assault weapons and anti-personnel ammunition. The NRA appears actually to have persuaded hunters and fishermen that semi-automatic weapons and hollow-point bullets, 19 shell magazines and the like are absolutely necessary for sport.

I have to some extent lived with the tension between the two factions all my life. My father was an urban “street kid.” My mother was country, and her father and all her family were hunters. We lived off their kill for substantial parts of the year. Nevertheless, when my grandfather would roll in with squirrel or rabbit wrapped, always, in bloody newspaper, my Dad would say, “Hey, Mose, did the bunnies put up a good fight this time? You come out unscathed again?” And so on. My father swore he would hunt only when the bunnies could put up a square fight. In the end, my mother and the rest of us became aggressively pro gun control. However, I have spent a lot of time with guns, shooting guns, and think we can live with small arms for hunting and I guess personal protection.

It is sad, but affection for guns seems to be one of the primary characteristics of Americans.

You got that, right!

The fiction tying money to speech is not based upon good jurisprudence, rational thought or sound law. The Supreme Court is in a constant state of panic over this issue because it goes to the very heart of the ruling classes. It’s also why Congress won’t require that national elections take place on Saturdays.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070422/30guns.htm

VA will never give up their guns. Let’s not forget that Webb got caught trying to sneak his own handgun into his Congressional office. They’ll work harder to loosen them. I think the real fight is with the feds as Reg, outlined above, and Bloomberg’s lawsuit

While true, this is a much weaker argument than anti-gun-control people seem to think. The widely-known fact is that most gun deaths are not caused by “criminal elements.” Most are the result of ordinary people enraged by marital problems, having psychotic episodes, or in periods of suicidal depression. These things usually pass, and further slowing down access to guns (say, with a ten day national waiting period like the one required to buy a long gun in California) might meaningfully reduce impulsive or psychotic murders and suicides.

Well maybe they are but Scalia seems to have a soft spot for Speech of a political nature. Maybe he was bitten by Alexander Meikeljohn while at Chicago.

The real culprit here is the inbreeding that goes on in DC between high powered consultants – with their built-in conflict of interest over comissions for TV Ads – and the Great and the Good in the Punditocracy who know it all. Like MoDo and her fixation with haircuts or David Broder who just knows that Bush will get a bounce!

That’s why those much despised – by many here – “NetRoots” draw so much ire here. They say its bullshit and they’ve been proven right. Like Stu Rothenberg chiding certain bloggers for wanting to “Waste” money by running candidates in every Congressional District or Dean for throwing away bucks with a “50 State Strategy”. Then these bloggers committed the supreme sin of being right in the lasat election and that is what galls.

Isn’t it interesting that the two candidates that have risen in the polls steadily are Bill Richardson and John Edwards – both of who have eschewed this “valuable” advice from the Mavens in Washington.