A worldnetdaily special re****t.
JOHN McCAIN IS A LIBERAL GUN GRABBER AND A DANGER TO AMERICAN FREEDOM
By Joseph Farah
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.printable&pageId=63248
The last thing we need is another liberal neocon in the White House. If
the Presidency of George W. Bush proved anything, it proved the hazard
of electing phony Republican conservatives. At least one is able to
clearly see a liberal for what he or she is when they have a "D" behind
their name. But put an "R" behind the name and suddenly their liberal,
Big-Government, anti-freedom agenda is barely recognized, which makes a
liberal Republican much more dangerous than a liberal Democrat.
Let me say it straight out: a John McCain Presidency would be far worse
than a Barack Obama Presidency. With a Democrat in the White House,
conservatives and Christians suddenly find their principles and are able
to offer resistance. Put a Republican in the Oval Office, however, and
those same people become blind, deaf, and dumb to most any principle
they profess.
Nowhere is McCain's chicanery and duplicity more jeopardous than in the
area of the right to keep and bear arms. On issues relating to the
Second Amendment, John McCain is a disaster! For example, the highly
respected Gun Owners of America (GOA) rates McCain with a grade of F-.
McCain's failing grade is well deserved.
John McCain sponsored an amendment to S. 1805 on March 2, 2004 that
would outlaw the private sale of firearms at gun shows. According to
GOA, the provision would effectively eliminate gun shows, because every
member of an organization sponsoring a gun show could be imprisoned if
the organization fails to notify each and every "person who attends the
special firearms event of the requirements [under the Brady Law]."
John McCain also sponsored an In***bent Protection provision to the
so-called "Campaign Finance Reform" bill, which severely curtails the
ability of outside groups (such as GOA) to communicate the actions of
in***bent politicians to members and sup****ters prior to an election.
The GOA re****t of the 106th Congress reveals that out of 15 votes
relating to the right to keep and bear arms, Senator John McCain voted
favorably only 4 times. Put that into a percentage and McCain's
pro-Second Amendment voting record is a pathetic 27%.
In addition, GOA warns that John McCain sup****ted legislation that would
force federal agents to increase efforts in arresting and convicting
honest gun owners who may inadvertently violate one of the many federal
anti-gun laws, which punish mere technicalities, such as gun possession.
For example, if John McCain's proposed legislation were to become law, a
gun owner who travels with a gun through a school zone or who uses one
of the family handguns to go target shooting with a 15-year old could be
sent to prison. And a person who uses a gun for self-defense could be
sent to prison for a mandatory minimum of five years.
But there is so much more to the McCain madness.
Former California State Senator H.L. "Bill" Richardson wrote this about
John McCain, "He's [McCain's] proven his dislike for conservatives and
would gut us at every op****tunity.
"Why do I say that? Because of three decades of experience as a
Republican California Senator and a fifty year activist in the
conservative movement. I have first hand, in-their-face experience with
elitist RINO's (Republican in Name Only) office holders. They are
biblically ignorant, power hungry, status seeking egotists who have no
difficulty aiding their liberal Democrat colleagues whenever their arms
are politely twisted. The one thing they have in common with liberal
Democrats is their dislike for all conservatives, especially those who
are Bible-believing. McCain, as president, would stifle the voices of
elected Republican leaders and try to legislate the conservative
movement out of existence."
Senator Richardson went on to say that he would in no way vote for John
McCain, if indeed McCain is the Republican nominee (which he obviously
will be).
I wonder how many gun owners and other professing pro-freedom Americans
have already fallen victim to McCain's phony conservative campaign? Do
they not realize that they are giving a rope to the hangman? And that
they--conservatives and gun owners--are the ones who McCain will send to
the gallows? What is wrong with the American people these days? Have
they not been betrayed enough by these phony conservative Republicans?
For example, President George W. Bush recently nominated Michael
Sullivan to be Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
Explosives. Sullivan is one of the nation's most rabid anti-gunners.
GOA's Larry Pratt describes Sullivan as being "as anti-gun as Ted
Kennedy." Honest gun owners, lawful firearms dealers, and law-abiding
gun show operators could have no worse enemy within the federal
government than Michael Sullivan. We could expect no worse from Hillary
Clinton. And a John McCain Presidency would doubtless give us more of
the same.
Regarding the Second Amendment, the American people have no better
friend than Ron Paul. He has a 20-year proven track record of fidelity
to the right to keep and bear arms. The GOA rates Congressman Paul with
a grade of A+. According to GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt, Ron Paul
has been a leader in the fight to defend and restore the Second
Amendment. He has sponsored legislation to repeal the following: the
Brady law; the requirement to lock up your guns; the law permitting the
U.S. to be part of the U.N (which, among other attacks on American
freedoms, seeks to ban privately transferred firearms); participation in
UNESCO; federal prohibitions on any pilot wi****ng to carry a handgun to
and in his cockpit; and the so-called "assault weapons" ban (prior to
its sunsetting in 2004).
Ron Paul has also sponsored legislation requiring states to treat the
concealed carry permit of one state the same as they do that state's
driver's license. Dr. Paul also opposes a national ID card, which would
be a tool of government to identify gun owner****p.
Gun owners (along with conservatives and Christians of all sorts) should
be ashamed of themselves for allowing an angry, gun-grabbing liberal
such as John McCain to become the presumptive Republican Presidential
nominee, while rejecting the candidacy of one of America's most
principled pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-Constitution, and
pro-freedom legislators of this generation: Congressman Ron Paul.
I say again, the last thing we need is another liberal neocon in the
White House. John McCain may have an "R" behind his name, but he is just
another establishment liberal: one America cannot afford.
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