| RKBA : Jeb Bush remercie la NRA pour leur support | Posted by Stefan on 2003/4/28 8:05:57 (916 reads)
Jeb Bush a remercié la NRA pour leur support significatif dans l'élection de son frère. Il paraît que 48% des électeurs étaient propriétaires d'armes selon les "exit polls".
On attend pour voir si cette reconnaissance aura un effet sur la loi sur les armes!!!
Je n'aime pas son "... with few restrictions".
Quant à MMM, je pense qu'ils seraient surpris de savoir ce que "le public" veut. Pour ma part, je ne vois pas pourquoi on n'aurait pas des Uzis, mais je préfère un Steyr AUG à un AK-47! Avec magazin à 30 coups, évidemment, plus gros si je trouve.
Brother thanks NRA for helping make Bush president
Sunday, April 27, 2003 Posted: 10:01 AM EDT (1401 GMT) CNN
Florida Gov. Jeb Bush delivers the keynote address at the NRA banquet, Saturday.
ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) -- Florida Gov. Jeb Bush thanked the National Rifle Association Saturday for helping elect his brother president in 2000.
Bush, the keynote speaker at the gun lobby's annual convention, noted that 48 percent of the voters in the 2000 presidential race were gun owners, based on exit polls.
NRA support played a key role in several states, including Florida, where the vote was so close that the U.S. Supreme Court eventually had to settle the matter of disputed ballots, and in Tennessee, home state of George W. Bush's Democratic opponent, Al Gore.
"Were it not for your active involvement, it's safe to say my brother would not be president of the United States," the younger Bush said.
The governor said he and his brother both support the NRA's contention that the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which contains "the right to bear arms," is an individual right with few restrictions.
"The sound of our guns is the sound of freedom," said Bush, to thunderous applause from the gun group.
Earlier, gun-control advocates protested outside the Orlando convention center where the NRA was meeting.
Members of the Brady Campaign and the Million Mom March were protesting the NRA's legislative agenda, which includes allowing a ban on certain assault weapons to expire in 2004 and giving gun makers immunity from product-liability lawsuits.
"We believe the public does not want Uzis and AK-47s, with large magazines that hold dozens of rounds, back in their neighborhoods," said Mary Leigh Blek, director of the Million Mom March. | | |
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