You don’t know what you’re talking about. The AWB was full of technical issues, and you’re trying to make a political point by ignoring the facts that:

1. the law didn’t ban guns, but only some cosmetic features found on guns such as flash hiders and bayonet lugs.

2. the law didn’t ban the posession of standard-capacity magazines, but by banning future production of them, slightly increased their retail price. Almost every AK47 magazine in the US comes from places like eastern europe and china, so banning their domestic production was virtually meaningless if all an importer had to do was fabricate a document stating that the magazines he wanted to import were made before 9/1994.

3. There’s a world of difference between stating that lawful citizens of the United States have the right to own firearms, which is my argument, and actively supressing the law in order to assist Mexican drug cartels in the acquisition of firearms, which appears to be the ATF’s mission.

If your intent is to help “the police in our big cities who have to deal with gangs and drug dealers, then you should get rid of the Democrats who have run almost every big city into the ground.

Show me a city in turmoil and I’ll show you an experiment in liberal mis-management that’s been run by Democrats for decades -but keep thinking that, if only a gun ban were enacted nationwide, places like Detroit would be utopia.

In the United States we do not have a ruling party; that was the whole reason that we established the three tier system of chacks and balances. The president is not a king and the Congress is not intended to be a rubber stamp. There were no complaints from individuals like you when Harry Ried and the Democrat minority in the Senate during the Bush administration set the precident for using the filibuster to stop every bill.

pksk531: The filibuster rule was changed to 2/3 of the Senate in 1975, not 2005. It was the Democrats who changed it so they could block Republicans out of the debate. This little factoid can be found both on the Senate’s own website and on Wikipedia. Please do your research before spouting off about things you do not understand.

Are there two Executive Governments running the affairs of the United States?

The program of the Party that formed the Government is the choice the Country made at the ballot box in November 2008.

So, I don’t understand the “differences” the Republicans are talking about. The Executive Government of the United States was not sworn-in as a Bi-parttisan Government in January 2009.

Unless the Republican Leaders are implying that they hardly understand what Democracy means.

That may explain why the positive public opinion about the U.S. House of Rep, ias led by the Republican Party, s only a paltry 9%

I think hunters and people who want to protect their home should have the right to buy a rifle or handgun. I don’t think any 16 year old with a fake ID should have access to an AK47. You say

“Crime is rarely committed with assault weapons, people are not running around with Semi Automatic M4′s, M-14′s, AK’s and committing Crime” Tell this to the police in our big cities who have to deal with gangs and drug dealers who “do” have these weapons.

The founders were afraid of a large standing army. The purpose of the 2nd amendment was to allow the states to have armories or other storage facilities to store weapons that people could use in case of war. They would never be so stupid to allow assault weapons to be put in the hands of criminals or anyone else. If anything they had some common sense.