George Walker Bush Political Influence
George Walker Bush was a very influential man in Texas politics. Not only would his family's endeavors in the oil industry bring development to Texas towns and cities, his Governorship would shape politics in the region for the next decade. He takes great pride in having been raised in Texas for most of his life; he speaks in a very cheerful, but very down-to-earth tone that many can identify with. Calling himself a “compassionate conservative,” George Bush led the way for reforms in many different areas. Despite his pride in his Texas heritage, he was not actually born there. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut on July 16th, 1946. He was born from a very business and politically-oriented family. His grandfather was Senator Prescott Bush from Connecticut in the 1950s, and was also a former Wall Street banker. He was also a very distant relative of former president Franklin Pierce on his mother's side. His father, George Herbert
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This was a law that he felt strongly about, mainly due to his strong opposition to gun control laws. In the book, Fortunate Son, George W. Bush and the Making of an American President, he is quoted to have said: “No movement in America should so alarm Americans as the gun control movement,” he said while pushing his new law. “Its true aim has nothing to do with crime, but everything to do with disarming honest and decent Americans in an attempt plainly intended to take away their freedom.” In the same week that he signed this bill into law, he also announce stricter child protection laws. If a parent left an unsecured gun lying around for their children to get, they could receive fines of anywhere from five hundred to four thousand dollars. If a child ever seriously injured or killed someone with an unsecured firearm, their parents would also be sentenced to a year minimum in
This was a law that he felt strongly about, mainly due to his strong opposition to gun control laws. In the book, Fortunate Son, George W. Bush and the Making of an American President, he is quoted to have said: “No movement in America should so alarm Americans as the gun control movement,” he said while pushing his new law. “Its true aim has nothing to do with crime, but everything to do with disarming honest and decent Americans in an attempt plainly intended to take away their freedom.” In the same week that he signed this bill into law, he also announce stricter child protection laws. If a parent left an unsecured gun lying around for their children to get, they could receive fines of anywhere from five hundred to four thousand dollars. If a child ever seriously injured or killed someone with an unsecured firearm, their parents would also be sentenced to a year minimum in