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The fact is, noone has more powerful weapons than the police at their disposal. There has been laws on the books since the '30's regulating the ownership of true automatic weapons. Does it make you feel better to outlaw a gun because it appears "more powerful"? Thats basically all the AWB accomplished. It was ridiculous. You want everyone to compromise on the issues you feel is important, but you don't want to compromise on issues that other people feel is important. Extremism gets neither party anywhere. Bush may have only won by 3% but a much larger percentage more don't support some of the issues that the Democrats promote. For example, Michigan, a primarily Democratic state passed legislation banning gay marriage. I can almost garauntee a lot of the Democrats who voted for Kerry in Michigan are opposed to gun control. They voted for Kerry under the premise of "anyone but Bush". Most of America is opposed to gun control, this has been proven in several elections now. When is the Democratic Party gonna leave gun control behind? When is the Democratic Party going to leave the extreme enviromental lobbyist alone and realize that most while people want to save the environment, most also want to enjoy it while helping save it. Closing off our national parks and huge tracts of government owned public land to everyone but hikers from the Seirra Club is ridiculous. The Democratic Party is just to far left for it to be appealing to anyone in the middle. Hopefully this election will wake up the powers that be.
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