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Post-9/11 firearms debate intensifies
« on: April 18, 2005, 04:15:36 AM »
Post-9/11 firearms debate intensifies

NRA fights closing loopholes, even if it means terror suspects can still buy guns

Guns have long made some Americans feel safer and others more scared.

These opposing views have sharpened in the 3 1/2 years since the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, as the U.S. government reports dozens of incidents in which terrorism suspects received federal clearance to buy guns.

The National Rifle Association, holding its annual convention in Houston this weekend, believes guns are crucial in helping Americans feel secure against terrorism. The group is so adamant that law-abiding citizens be able to purchase firearms unfettered that it is unwilling to support changing the law to keep terror suspects from buying guns.

Read the article at:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3138490

*FW Note:  Suspicion is just suspicion.  It is not proof.  Whatever happened to "Innocent until proven Guilty"?

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They may talk of a "New Order" in the  world, but what they have in mind is only a revival of the oldest and worst tyranny.   No liberty, no religion, no hope.   It is an unholy alliance of power and pelf to dominate and to enslave the human race.