Under the heading of manipulative window dressing ... I watched some coverage of the push to get the AWB renewal bill passed, and saw how they trotted out victim after victim - Brady for example, and a slew of people whose loved ones had been the victims of gun violence. One can't help but feel for these poor souls whose lives are forever changed, but of all these tragedies there wasn't a single instance where a "banned" weapon had been used!
As much as I sympathize with these victims, I have to ask how their testimony is relevant to the case at hand when the deaths and injuries didn't involve "assault" weapons or "high capacity" magazines. The presence of these witnesses - no matter how sorry one may feel for them - is an insulting and shameless exploitation of grief to promote an agenda - - - and just as irrelevant as the testimony of a DUI victim in a building collapse case.
Edited by Bob B, 09 September 2004 - 11:15 PM.