CSGV is all about
confiscating firearms as "the" solution to "stopping gun violence."
http://www.csgv.org/content/coalition/frame_coal_intro.htmlCSGV supports a ban on the importation, manufacture, sale and transfer of handguns and assault weapons, with reasonable exceptions for police, military, security personnel, gun clubs, and antique and collectable firearms stored in inoperable condition. Hunting weapons, such as shotguns and rifles, would be unaffected by these bans.Kerry keeps touting CSGV's support for him, so WTF are we supposed to think about Kerry's future agenda?
Besides, I thought Kerry's supposed "Stand" on the issue was the same as Dean's anyway: background checks for all firearms sales, and extending the
current gun laws (including the retarded cosmetic-based rifle ban).
Edited to add:
Any candidite embracing the ban-them-all crowd (like the CSGC) will have to contend with the opposition from people like DU'er Xithras, who knows firsthand that guns save lives:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=623990#624597Xithras (482 posts)
It's one of the reasons I refuse to support any candidate that opposes gun rights. In 1996 a burglar/attempted rapist broke into my house in broad daylight and attacked my wife. He pinned her down with a knife to her throat and was pulling down her shorts with the obvious intention of raping her...with my 1 year old daughter watching (he actually told my wife that he'd "kill the kid" if she didn't cooperate). Unfortunatly for the burglar, I was UPSTAIRS at the time. I heard my wife scream "Help!" and then "Get out of my house", and then heard the low voice of an angry man and realized that something was very wrong. I grabbed my gun, charged down the stairs, and was presented with the sight of this guy (his "tool" already out and ready) standing over my wife (draped over our couch), with a knife to her neck and her shorts almost completely off.
I never warned him off, announced my presence, or threatened him...I just fired a single round into his back.
My wife was physically unharmed, but it took her several years to mentally get past what had happened...we even had to move because she was terrified to be in the house alone. The burglar/attempted rapist survived, and will be released from prison in 2007 (he was sentenced to ten years). I, in that instant, became a permanent advocate of gun ownership(end)
I actually agree with Kerry on a lot of issues, especially after hearing him on NPR. But this whole firearms thing is the killer.