Bowles-Burr Debate: on Gun Control


Erskine Bowles: Reinstitute the assault weapons ban

Some excerpts from the Bowles-Burr debate: On the assault weapons ban

BOWLES:"I would have voted to reinstitute the assault weapons ban."

BURR: "I voted for the ban to go away. I support the Second Amendment."

Source: Winston-Salem Journal, "NC Senatorial Debate Excerpts"

Richard Burr: Assault weapons ban is against the Second Amendment

Some excerpts from the Bowles-Burr debate: On the assault weapons ban

BOWLES:"I would have voted to reinstitute the assault weapons ban."

BURR: "I voted for the ban to go away. I support the Second Amendment."

Source: Winston-Salem Journal, "NC Senatorial Debate Excerpts"

  • The above quotations are from North Carolina Senatorial Debate, between Erskine Bowles (D) and Richard Burr (R), Sept. 28, 2004.
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