Wes Clark's proposals on Gun Issues, may be surprising...

[Bread and Circus]

Issues link: http://clark04.com/issues/

Here's the pdf: http://clark04.com/downloads/pdf/Clark04_GunSafety.pdf

Here's a sample:

"Renew the assault weapons ban. These weapons are dangerous and designed for one purpose: military assault. We don't need them on the streets of our cities. We use assault weapons in the army; folks who want to use them should enlist.

Make sure that guns are designed with safety as a priority. For example, trigger locks on handguns would prevent a substantial number of the accidental shootings that occur every year. And such locks are no more of a threat to liberty than are seatbelts in cars. In addition, guns should feature indicators that show when they are loaded. Design features like these cannot take the place of training in gun safety, and the need to secure guns from children, but they will make all gun owners and their families safer from accidental discharges.

Retain the records of gun purchase background checks as a tool for investigating crime. Attorney General John Ashcroft has proposed a rule to destroy these records after only one day. Ironically, these appear to be the only privacy rights that this Administration believes should not be sacrificed in the war on terrorism.

Help law enforcement use existing technology to fight crime. Ballistic fingerprinting is already helping the FBI and local law enforcement agencies identify guns that are used in crimes. We should require such fingerprinting of guns before they are sold, and create a national database of such information. If we are serious about preventing gun violence and terrorism, we need to embrace technology that will help prevent criminals from remaining anonymous."

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As a Clark supporter, I am really proud of where the general
is on this. He seems responsible to me anyway. It's worth
a read.

[xultar]

1. Well, I like to here the gun stance of a person that has actually been

shot. That makes it real for me.
(EDIT) Have any of you seen that movie Powder when he takes the hand of the hunter and let's him feel how it feels to be shot. Powerfull, the guy a hunter took all of his guns and threw them out.)

[Silverhair]

12. Are you a vegitarian?

If not, then the hunter is more moral because he does his own killing.

[democratreformed]

2. There's a whole host

of new policy papers up on the site - at least they're new for me since I just noticed them this morning.

www.clark04.com

[MissMarple]

3. Common sense gun regulation.

:bounce:

Only the paranoid guys waiting for the end of civilization as we know it could hate this.

[Wickerman]

4. even the paranoid

should have enuf time to unlock their trigger locks. Sensible and safe stuff.

[MissMarple]

5. But they don't want the government to know what they have.

It has to be a big secret, and they can save their little patch from marauding starving people or is it marauding government bureaucrats or the marauding bands of storm troopers? Hmm...I forget.

:D

[funkyflathead]

10. Like me?

With Bush in command the end could be near ANYTIME.

And yes what good is a .45 versus a nuclear bomb.

Gun owning Dem here.

[Bread and Circus]

6. kick -- just to compete with Clark flamebait threads.

[WillyBrandt]

7. This is great: not a candidate the NRA would approve of

But one I do!

Too bad he's a PNACer, secret DLC plant, crypto-republican warmonger, as DU tells us

[dsc]

8. I am in favor of gun control

but I do have a real problem with trigger locks. First, I fear they could lead to a false sence of security about the guns. Second, and more importantly, I think that people who are childless and legitimatly have a gun for protection shouldn't have to deal with those locks. I wouldn't get a gun under any circumstances but if I did a trigger lock would render it worthless. I live in a very small apartment and would have only seconds to prepare for an intruder. I can see the point of gun owners on that issue.

[funkyflathead]

9. More here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=118&topic_id=23009

[HuskerDem]

11. kick

[SahaleArm]

13. Dammit I want an AK-47 for Chistmas!

AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherf*cker in the room, accept no substitutes. :evilgrin:

[funkyflathead]

14. I'd rather have a MAC 9mm loaded with +p+

like in Scarface.

[incontrovertible]

17. non-owner?

AK-47 = a crappy homeboy piece. There's a reason the Marines, the FBI Hostage Rescue squads, and every military on earth with a real budget carries the M-16. It isn't how much you spray, it's how many times you hit a target. If, in a duel, I were offered either an AK-47 with a thirty-round clip, or an AR-15 with a 10-round clip, and my opponent got the other, I would pick the AR-15, without question.

These are vanity pieces, regardless. In real life, in defending a home, all one needs, or should want, is a pump-action 12-gauge. Stop an intruder without shooting through the walls and killing your neighbor, as a semi-auto rifle definitely will do, when you miss, repeatedly, firing insanely at the shadow in your living room.

[SahaleArm]

18. Quote from Jackie Brown.

Personally I could care less what people buy.

[Silverhair]

15. What about cosmetic look-alikes to assault rifles?

Those are rifles that have regular semi-auto workings internally, but look like real assault rifles.

[funkyflathead]

16. See the link in my post

He thinks some of them are OK.