"Herb Martin" <news@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> 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,
He can't deny his anti-gun voting record. Nor can Hillary deny hers.
> 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."
"Divide and conquer" tactic.
>
> 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.
Thye aren't "bitter".
They are just keeping quiet until enough of theirs gets elected,and then
their anti-gun proposals will spew forth.
> 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,
NO,they have not. Only just postponed them.
> 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. ..
That doesn't mean they are not still in the wings,waiting to be
implemented.
If they were truly anti-violence,they would be pu****ng(and spending) for
prosecutors that actually prosecute and judges that mete strict sentences
for gun crimes.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
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