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CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Bush Subsidizes Gun Owners”

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“Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush has provided us a hint as to what he means by “compassionate conservatism.” A few days before the Million Mom March for gun control, Bush announced a brand new welfare program he would institute if he’s elected president. Bush promises to spend $65 million in taxpayer funds on the purchase and distribution of free trigger locks for gun owners. That’s right — a welfare plan for gun owners! What could be more compassionate than that? After all, as everyone knows, after spending the money to purchase a gun, the gun owner is too broke to buy a $10 trigger lock for it.”

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Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at the Foundation for Economic Education. He has advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on Fox News’ Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows and he appeared as a regular commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s show Freedom Watch. View these interviews at LewRockwell.com and from Full Context. Send him email.