DOLE PROMOTES ID SYSTEM FOR BUYERS RATHER THAN ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN.Byline: Katharine Q. Seelye This article is about the reporter for The New York Times. For the NPR reporter, see Kate Seelye. Katharine Q. Seelye is a political reporter for The New York Times. The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times Saying he knew from personal experience the damage that guns could do, Sen. Bob Dole told police officers in this Columbus suburb Friday that he would control guns in America with an instant check on anyone who wanted to buy one, not with a ban on assault weapons. Dole said the ban had not worked because criminals were able to modify the weapons just enough to skirt it. He said an instant check would work better because it would prevent people like convicted felons, those who had been dishonorably dis·hon·or·a·ble adj. 1. Characterized by or causing dishonor or discredit. 2. Lacking integrity; unprincipled. dis·hon discharged from the military and the legally insane from buying any kind of weapon in the first place. He called the ban ``naive.'' He said the instant check was in place in 16 states but he wanted a federal ban to link computerized checks in all 50 states. The likely Republican presidential nominee In United States politics and government, the phrase presidential nominee has two distinct meanings. The first is somebody chosen by the primary voters and caucus-goers of this party to be the party's nominee for President of the United States. said earlier in a television interview that balancing the budget would be his top priority as president. Dole, who faces intense pressure from some of his advisers to emphasize cutting taxes over eliminating the deficit, also said he might try to balance the budget in four years, not six or seven, which could make cutting taxes even trickier. In the interview, which he gave to a group of CBS affiliates Lists of CBS television affiliates are available in the following formats:
Dole's visit to Ohio wraps up a week of campaigning across the country as he winds up his 27-year career in the Senate. He alluded several times to his pending final days in the place he has called home since 1969, but he also seemed anxious to move on. Friday morning in Cincinnati, he told members of the conservative American Legislative Exchange Council The American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC, is a nonpartisan, ideologically conservative [1], non-profit 501(c)(3) membership association of state legislators and private sector policy advocates. that he was leaving the Senate in part because voters believed that politicians ``never give up anything - we just try to get more power, hang on to more of what we have.'' To have credibility, he said, he had to ``roll the dice.'' But, reflecting some uncertainty over the future, he added: ``In politics you never look back. You look ahead. And as I look ahead, I think America's best days are out there.'' Dole told reporters that even at this juncture junc·ture n. The point, line, or surface of union of two parts. in his long public career, he realized voters did not know much about him - and he was not sure what they should know. ``All the focus groups, a lot of people know that I'm a senator and in Washington, but they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. much else,'' he said on his plane in the wee hours as he traveled from California to Chicago. Fully half of the voters, he said, did not know he was a veteran. Asked what was the single most important thing for them to know, he replied: ``Beats me. If I did, we'd spend a lot of money on that.'' Perhaps with that in mind, he told the police here Friday, ``I think I know the damage a gun can do, personally, I know the damage a weapon can do.'' But that is all he said about the combat injury in World War II that left his right arm useless. He raised the matter of assault weapons, which has been politically difficult for him since he promised the National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. last summer that repealing the 1994 ban on 19 kinds of assault weapons would be one of his legislative priorities. The ban is supported by the vast majority of voters, including suburban Republicans, whom Dole needs if he is to carry states like Ohio, which Bill Clinton won in 1992 and where the president is leading in polls now. If Dole is still searching for a public self, he chose Friday not to define himself in opposition to President Clinton. In suburban Cincinnati, Dole gave a nonpartisan anti-drug speech without mentioning Clinton, and later gave the president a passing grade - a C minus - for his performance on dealing with drugs. Instead, Dole told students at Sycamore High School Sycamore High School can mean:
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