We're All Gun Nuts Now
The Democrats sidle up to the Second Amendment.
by John McCormack
05/19/2008, Volume 013, Issue 34
sidle (read as: LIE about)
So Brady bunch leader****p knows the Dem candidates have to lie
about their sup****t of the 2nd Amendment BECAUSE they understand
that failure to sup****t the 2nd Amendment would be political
suicide, e.g., Americans sup****t the Right to Keep and Bear
Arms as an individual right of every American -- and the candidates
at least SAY this is correct.
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During a campaign debate on April 16, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
were
asked if the District of Columbia's ban on gun possession, now facing a
challenge before the Supreme Court, is constitutional. "I think a total
ban,
with no exceptions under any cir***stances, might be found by the Court
not
to be. But I don't know the facts," said Clinton (Yale Law '73), dodging
the
question for the third and final time. Obama (Harvard Law '91) also
pleaded
ignorance, confessing he hadn't "listened to the briefs and looked at all
the evidence."
When moderator Charlie Gibson pointed out that Obama's handwriting was on
a
1996 candidate survey that said he favored banning handguns, Obama flatly
denied his writing was on the questionnaire, contradicting what a campaign
staffer had told Politico weeks earlier. Asked if he still sup****ts
licensing and registering guns, Obama said he favors "common-sense
approaches" to gun control like keeping guns from "the mentally deranged."
When Clinton was asked if she maintains her past sup****t for licensing and
registration, she too sidestepped the question, saying, "What might work
in
New York City is certainly not going to work in Montana."
With both contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination evading
the
gun control issue as if it were sniper fire, you couldn't blame gun
control
advocates for feeling bitter. Yet Paul Helmke, president of the Brady
Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence--the pro-gun control counterweight to the
National Rifle Association--says Obama and Clinton are "coming fairly
close
to delivering the message we'd
like." On licensing and registering guns, Helmke says, they are "being
realistic" in recognizing "there's no sup****t for pu****ng that forward at
this stage." His thoughts on the candidates' ducking questions on the D.C.
gun ban? "They're politicians, and most politicians on tough calls do not
answer."
The reason Helmke doesn't feel abandoned on licensing, registration, and
the
D.C. gun ban is that the Brady Campaign has shelved those goals, in favor
of
a more modest, incrementalist strategy. Though licensing and registration
remain official Brady Campaign policy, Helmke says he hasn't even talked
about them with anyone on staff since he became president in 2006.
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