Angie Craig: “I am honored we have lifted the gun debate, on a fundamentally important bill for the average American, to Presidential…”

“I am honored we have lifted the gun debate, on a fundamentally important bill for the average American, to Presidential politics. So let's go to where the average American is, by a Zogby poll taken some months ago, and this is: The red States versus the blue States, the Bush States versus the Gore States, in 2000. When the average American, by the Zogby International polling group-- certainly no rightwing polling group--did their work with Southern Methodists, here is what they got. For the statement: ``There are enough laws on the books. What is needed is better law enforcement for current laws regarding gun control.''--69 percent in the Bush States agreed, 63 percent in the Gore States; for the military, the veterans, and the nonmilitary--all of them well above a majority of 50 percent. When it comes to the underlying bill, that number jumps into the 70s. Americans are fed up with the politics and the placebos to put a law on the books and somehow you have made the world safer. What they want is the cop on the beat arresting the bad guy or gal, and the courts not summarily putting them back on the streets.”