Another conservative disgruntled with dubyah's "common sense gun control".

Michelle Malkin

W. wimps out on guns

[url]www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin.html[/url]

http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- THE
"Million" Mom March fell about 999,800 bodies
short this year. Rosie O'Donnell, a leading anti-gun
loudmouth who emceed last year's march and later
sought armed security guards for her own children,
was a no-show at the pathetically attended protest
in Washington, D.C. Similar rallies across the
country also fizzled, drawing sparse crowds of
liberal activists still sullenly opposed to the Second
Amendment.

The measly march's message rang loud and clear:
Gun-control extremism is a dying movement.
Unfortunately, the White House didn't hear it. In
Philadelphia this week, President Bush
enthusiastically unveiled "Project Safe." It's a new
gun-policy initiative that will involve gobs of new
federal spending and an "unprecedented partnership
between all levels of government." Unprecedented?
Yikes. Gun owners, watch your wallets - and your
holsters.

The Bush package includes several pet causes of
the gun-control lobby, including $75 million for gun
locks; $15.3 million for 113 new federal Attorneys
to serve as full-time gun prosecutors; and $19.1
million to expand a program by the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms aimed at
preventing youths from obtaining guns. Although
Bush stressed that he simply wants to "enforce
existing laws," the fine print of Project Safe echoes
the gun-grabbing Left's call to ban the importation
of high-capacity ammunition clips.

There are already 30,000 gun laws on the books.
Passing one more law banning ammo clips won't do
diddly to reduce gun violence. And I'll bet my .38
that those 113 new federal bureaucrats, under
pressure to justify their jobs, will spend most of
their day chasing after gun owners guilty of technical
violations -- not violent crimes.

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Kinder
                                Gentler
                                Republicans like Bush who
                                took up the compromise
                                banner of "enforcing existing
                                laws" have painted
                                themselves into a rhetorical
                                corner. Most of those laws
                                are ineffective in the fight
                                against crime. Instead, they
                                are bureaucratic obstacles
                                that make it unreasonably - if
not unconstitutionally -- difficult for law-abiding citizens to purchase,
store, and modify guns for protection. Those laws need to be repealed,
not enforced.

Bush this week cited well-worn anti-gun statistics and condemned the
"unacceptable" number of fatal shooting deaths in the U.S. But like the
liberal anti-gun lobby, the GOP president was silent about the untold
number of gun shootings committed every year in self-defense. Just two
weeks ago, a 12-year-old girl in Clarksdale, Miss., saved her mother's
life when she shot and killed an abusive ex-boyfriend who had forced his
way into the apartment and started choking her mom. Detective Danny
Hill of the Clarksdale Police Department said the brave girl had "heard
the commotion and she knew from past experience what was going on."
So did a Tacoma, Wa., woman who saved her own life in late April after
shooting a former boyfriend who invaded her home in violation of two
restraining orders. According to police reports, the man had two
convictions for domestic violence against the woman over the past year.
When he threatened to kill her after breaking into her home, she ran to
her bedroom -- where she kept a handgun -- and fired one fatal shot at
him.

And in Colorado this week, a trial date was finally set for a serial rapist
whose terrorism against elderly women ended only after 72-year-old
Jean Zamarripa shot him after he broke into her home last fall. When she
heard a noise in the backyard, Zamarippa grabbed her loaded
.38-caliber revolver. She fired four times when the intruder rammed his
shoulder into her back door. "I'm just a little grandmother, and I mind my
own business," Zamarripa, a retired medical assistant, told the
Associated Press. "What would I have done if I hadn't had my gun? I
would have been just another statistic."

What will it take for Beltway Republicans to stop their Clintonesque
pandering to Hollywood soccer moms and start representing us
gun-owning mammas who don't have Secret Service protection and can't
afford to hire armed personal security guards? We refuse to be the
statistics you ignore.

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