Today assault weapons, tomorrow the world!

The GOP really wants to make the second amendment an issue this election. On the same day that the assault weapons ban expired, we learn the House GOP wants to overturn all gun restrictions in place in Washington D.C.

Rep. Mark Edward Souder (R-Ind.) said House Republican leaders have promised him a vote before the Nov. 2 election on his proposed D.C. Personal Protection Act, which would end a ban on handguns in the nation's capital; remove a prohibition against semiautomatic weapons; lift registration requirements for ammunition and other firearms; and cancel criminal penalties for possessing unregistered firearms and carrying a handgun in one's home or workplace.

Souder's bill also would deny the District's elected officials "authority to enact laws or regulations that discourage or eliminate the private ownership or use of firearms." The legislation has 228 co-sponsors, more than enough to clear the 435-member House.

I'm sure all 228 co-sponsors received hundreds of letters from their constituents regarding gun control issues in D.C. and became compelled to act, rather than sponsoring a bill that would only serve to put more guns on the streets of our nation's capitol for pure political reasons, right?