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Originally Posted by NineseveN

If you fall for the rehotric of so-called republican Pro-gun candiates, you're nothing more than a tool for them. How many of them have authoered or supported a TRUE pro-gun, no compromise bill? Name them.

They can say they're pro-gun, and they may toss gun owners a bone once in a while on slam dunk legislation that isn't too harmful to gun owners, but do you seriously think that most Republicans have VOTED and CONDUCTED themselves as pro-gun? And do you really think for a minute that the lot of them wouldn't sell the issue right out from under you if it wasn't considered mandatory for them to APPEAR pro-gun as a Republican?

Most of them are no better or worse than Rudy, Romney, McCain, Bush, Bloomberg and the like. At least the Democrats are honest about it, if the Republicans were even half as pro-gun as the cheerleaders want us to believe, we'd have actually made some significant progresss under a Republican-controlled government. We really didn't make much on a national level at all. And as you get more local, the differences between Republicans and Democrats in regards to most gun control issues in many states begin to blur...even moreso when it comes to the actual constituents (of whom I am speaking).

Can you tell me of one time in recent history where the republican party has held enough of a majority of both houses of congress that they could shove anything down the democrats throats? You can't and the reason for that is that the dems decided to force the repubs into a position where a simple majority is not enough to pass a bill or an amendment through the senate even though that is technically unconstitutional. I don't give a damn which party is in charge, they're all being fed by the lawyers and we're all paying the price for it but lets be at least somewhat honest.