[Q] - As Deputy Attorney General, Holder was a strong supporter of
restrictive gun control. He advocated federal licensing of handgun
owners, a three day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun
sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns
and so-called “assault weapons” (cosmetically incorrect guns) by
anyone under age of 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have
given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows,
national gun registration, and mandatory prison sentences for trivial
offenses (e.g., giving your son an heirloom handgun for Christmas, if
he were two weeks shy of his 21st birthday). He also promoted the
factoid that “Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in
this country die from gun violence”–a statistic is true only if one
counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as “children.” . . .
Holder played a key role in the gunpoint, night-time kidnapping of
Elian Gonzalez. The pretext for the paramilitary invasion of the six-
year-old’s home was that someone in his family might have been
licensed to carry a handgun under Florida law. Although a Pulitzer
Prize-winning photo showed a federal agent dressed like a soldier and
pointing a machine gun at the man who was holding the terrified child,
Holder claimed that Gonzalez “was not taken at the point of a gun” and
that the federal agents whom Holder had sent to capture Gonzalez had
acted “very sensitively.” If Mr. Holder believes that breaking down a
door with a battering ram, pointing guns at children (not just Elian),
and yelling “Get down, get down, we’ll shoot” is example of acting
“very sensitively,” his judgment about the responsible use of firearms
is not as acute as would be desirable for a cabinet officer who would
be in charge of thousands and thousands of armed federal agents, many
of them paramilitary agents with machine guns. -
http://volokh.com/posts/1227228105.shtml
If you like dog poo, you'll love Eric Holder.
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