didn’t specter oppose the extension of the assault weapons ban?

looks like the NRA supports him to. sportsmen for specter

This was so good, that I had to link to it. :)

This gun stuff is messing with my head and stupid thoughts are dripping out.  If guns are primarily used for hunting and self-defense, what’s so bad about requiring a background check and waiting 5 days?  Can’t you buy your gun 5 days before hunting season starts?  And as far as self-defense goes, is there anyone out there psychic enough to know that in the 5 days between when they offer to buy the gun, and they actually receive it, they’re going to need it?  Gun shows are fun, but the ease at which gangbangers are able to buy firearms in bulk there with few regulations scares me enough to buy a gun myself, preferably a bigger one.  But why do I even need one to begin with?  I’ve never been in a firefight in my entire life, especially not one where I’ve expended more than 15 rounds, and having that kind of a gun just lying around for my daughter to find wouldn’t be that safe, so I’d want to apply for a concealed weapon license so I could keep it stuffed down my pants so I’d know where it is; but carrying it around so often and not really having any probability of using it (because I live in a pretty safe area) would get boring fast, and I’d probably be more tempted than not to go out and provoke someone to make me defend myself just to get my money’s worth and see if it really does what the movies show it can.  And then there’s the whole thing about allowing pilots to pack heat in the cockpit; I’m all for tazers or pepper spray or ginzu knifes or spiked maces, but guns?  Has anyone seen the movies where a bullet shoots out the window in a pressurized cabin, the plane loses altitude and everyone not buckled in gets sucked out?  Or the bad guy, armed with ordinary household items, wrests the gun from the good guy and seizes total control of the plane, thereby effectively curtailing any chance of an unarmed rebellion?  Someone please tell me I’m a paranoid idiot, give me some convincing reasons why, and I’ll promise to stop thinking Specter’s not the worst person for the job.

COC
The Second amendment states: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Imagine this senario (unlikely, but as an illustration) California with it’s ENORMOUS population decides to take Iowa for it’s land or whatever.  The people of Iowa could not defend themselves or their land without reasonable arms; or, If a Terrorist cell took over a large group of people like the liberals are trying to do now, and took over the government. Step one would to dissarm the population like the Nazi’s did.  Switzerland Requires it’s citizens to bear arms. Goto THIS link.  We are our army, we will defend ourselves against any agressor.  Shure there are criminals that we need to deal with but not at the cost of freedom.  Have you seen “Dawn of the Dead”? I like my semi-auto shotgun.

johnnydickhead:

Thank you for allowing me another chance to call myself an idiot; point taken, and Dawn of the Dead-- which I have seen 4 times already-- is one of my favorites.  Another point I was backward on: Guns in the airplane puncturing the fusilage (sic) and killing everyone.  I found out that air marshalls (and pilots, if allowed) use ceramic bullets incapable of puncturing the fusilage, but perfectly able to off a box-cutter-wielding jackass.