Unlike every other substantial, far-reaching gun-control policy I can think of, buyback is immediate, voluntary, market-driven, popular, and effective.
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As I watched his news conference and his gun-control remarks, I thought, for the first time in a while, that the Republicans are finally getting a break.
It was the one fixed point on a vacillating compass of relative morality until, one day, a tiny bird, the merest wisp of red plumage, tore away my comforting absolute and aligned me squarely with the NRA supporters, Second Amendment defenders and pro-gun crusaders I had reviled.
And there was resistance to the temptation in Washington to turn these things into political talking points, but allow them instead to be more organic and focused on the substance -- and not just on fiscal issues, as I said, but immigration reform, gun violence, energy independence, education -- the whole range of issues that are the President's priorities and they also happen to be the American people's priorities.
Representative TRAVIS CHILDERS (Democrat, Mississippi): I'm pro-life and pro-gun.
When I see Chow Yun-fat, for example, I see Alain Delon, so I let him hold the gun the way Delon did.
Namely in a case involving MCI, about which I co-wrote a book, Stolen Without A Gun.
"I've included all sorts of little things - his Vickers machine gun, bombed and rendered useless, but the man, the spirit of the man survives, " said Mr Doubleday.
But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- (applause) -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities.
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Hence, I disagreed with the now-overturned Florida law that had prohibited physicians from asking patients about gun ownership.
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I'm even cautiously optimistic that the current impasse over gun regulation is a bad-equilibrium that few consumers actually want, and that a reconstructed Freedom Group, fighting for sensible change as a fifth column from within the industry, might well find that many people -- even a significant portion of the NRA's members -- would buy from a truly responsible (and high quality) gunmaker if given the chance.
"I am writing to ask you to STOP gun violence, " wrote Tajeah, a 10-year-old from Georgia.
And I think that, you know, once we see something that is the norm - which is gun violence in New Orleans - we sort of accept it and we move on.
But Quentin Hardy and I suspect an outsider, perhaps even a hired gun, who is being fed gossip from a high-level source.
Finally I encountered two pilots who were just as top gun as you might imagine: eloquent, composed and good-looking.
But I also believe most gun owners agree that we can respect the Second Amendment while keeping an irresponsible, law-breaking few from causing harm on a massive scale.
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So when the NRA releases a shooting range app that teaches gun safety and gives people a chance to somehow practice shooting on a touch-screen, I find it absurd more than anything else.
The uproar against the Journal-News newspaper for printing a map of gun permit owners in two suburban New York counties, which I view as violating their privacy without a good reason, can attest to that.
That nickname has accrued to I-95, a highway running along America's east coast from Miami all the way to Maine, which gun traffickers have long used to haul guns bought in southern states with relatively lax purchasing laws to sell in north-eastern states such as New York and New Jersey, which more strongly regulate gun sales.
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