Correction: The Violence Policy Center has sought a more extensive federal assault weapons ban but did not favor renewal of the existing legislation. The organization's stance was not fully described in this article.
I won't deign to comment on that.
But the article is one for the archives. Later in the article:
"The NRA wields incredible power with the Republican leadership," said Kristen Rand, legislative director for the Violence Policy Center, which she called the largest national gun control advocacy group seeking a ban on handgun production.
Another admission of a slippery-slope end-point!
And I agree with Henry. On the whole, it's a balanced article. Perhaps I don't quite agree with his characterization of the "radicalism" on BOTH :-) sides, but it is relatively balanced.
Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part:
FYI:
Rhetoric runs hot, statistics are stretched thin when powerful interests chash on firearms control
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp? storyID=295963&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=10/18/2004
Lowell Savage
It's the freedom, stupid!
Gun Control: tyrants' tool, fools' folly.
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