HT Tech Central Station on this one. Who’d have thought that an attorney like John Edwards might cherry pick his facts during a debate. Take, for instance, the plastic gun comment. Edwards said that Cheney had voted against a bill that would have outlawed plastic guns that could slip through airport security. Let’s now take a trip back in time. The year is 1986, and Glock has introduced its new composite hand gun. Anti-gun fanatics are hysterical about this plastic gun which could evade metal detection. What they leave out is that the Glock still had plenty of metal in it. What is also left out is that the bullets would still have been metal, as well, and easily detectable by metal detectors. The bill Cheney voted against was an example of congress doing nothing by making it look like they did something. It required a minimum amount of metal that must be in all guns-3.2 ounces. There was no gun that had that little metal at the time. The likelihood that a gun could be made and be functional at less than that level today is not very likely. The bill was little more than a political grandstand. Why put a law that has no impact such that one on the books? So a politician can say “look at me, I voted for gun control”. It’s the politics I would expect from Kerry & Edwards.
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