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Second Amendment Foundation demands AG's resignation

Posted by simonov on 2 May 2007

I’ve been waiting a long time for our “pro gun rights” Administration (and, until recently, our “pro gun rights” Congress) to actually do something pro gun rights. Of course, those guntards who read newspapers know that our War Leader is no more pro gun rights (or any other rights) than Josef Stalin, but the right wing gun nut community continues to bang the drum for him.

Maybe not for long. Yesterday the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) demanded the resignation of Attorney General Albert Gonzales for his support of legislation that gives him the power to block firearms purchases without due process.

OMG! These people are finally getting worried about due process! Memo to the SAF, the NRA, the GOA, and all the Republican ass-licking gun rights groups: due process disappeared in this country years ago with the War on Drugs, the illegal detention of Jose Padilla (among others) and the passage of the USA PATRIOT Act at the behest of our War Leader. It’s a little late to start getting upset about it.

But I digress. The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg.

Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the purchase of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm license or permit because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good.

“This bill,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a ‘suspected terrorist.’ Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one’s name off such a list.

It gets even better:

“Attorney General Gonzales has no business asking for that kind of power over any tenet in the Bill of Rights,” Gottlieb said. “He took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not trample it. Perhaps it is time for him to go.”

Nice of you guys to notice. How about getting to work on Cheney and the War Leader as well?

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