My concerns about Kerry

[Tombstone]

Two decades of opposing gun owners` rights in the U.S. Senate make John
Kerry the most anti-gun presidential nominee in U.S. history!

FACT: Kerry has voted nine times in favor of banning semi-auto firearms.

FACT: Kerry has voted for a Ted Kennedy amendment to ban most rifle
ammunition, including the most common rounds used by hunters and target
shooters.

FACT: Kerry has voted to close off hundreds of thousands of acres to hunting
in the California Mojave Desert.

FACT: Kerry has voted to hold America`s firearms makers - not violent
criminals - responsible for crimes commited with firearms.

FACT: Kerry was one of only 18 Senators who opposed the Firearms Owners`
Protection Act, which ended alarming abuses being committed under the 1968
Gun Control Act.

FACT: Kerry has voted to allow unlimited warrant-less inspections of FFL
holders.

FACT: Kerry has voted to criminalize legal sales between private citizens at
gun shows.

FACT: Kerry has voted against increasing mandatory minimum and maximum
penalties for the illegal transfer or use of a firearm. But he voted to
impose penalties of a year in prison and a $10,000 fine on an adult if a
juvenile steals a gun from him and then displays it in a public place.

FACT: Kerry has voted to force many small firearms dealers out of business,
which would have impacted both the availability and price of guns,
particularly in rural areas.

FACT: Kerry has voted 11 times to force law-abiding citizens to wait to
exercise their Second Amendment rights. He voted to keep the federal waiting
period after the National Instant Check System was in place.

FACT: Kerry voted twice to eliminate the Civilian Marksmanship Program.

FACT: Kerry commended commended an anti-gun group`s demonstration in
Washington that called for gun owner licensing, gun registration and other
restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.

FACT: If elected president, Kerry will pack the U.S. Supreme Court with
Feinstein/Schumer/ Kennedy-selected anti-gun activists who believe you have
no right to own any firearm.

[plazul]

That's news to me. The only advice I can give to Democrats on this is to consider whether your gun rights will be further eroded by Congress in light of the current political climate.

Maybe Kerry will have an anti-gun agenda but will it be a prority and will he have the votes in Congress? On the other hand, Kerry has said he will curtail the powers granted to the federal government under the Patriot Act if he has a Democrat majority while Bush wishes to make the Act permanent.

Sounds like both candidates have positions that threaten civil liberties and it will be up to you to write the Democrat and Republican national committees on the issues of importance to you.

I'm going to Google Kerry on gun control, something he's said little about.