Posted on 07/26/2010 2:51:59 PM PDT by cc2k
In the summer of 2004, the 10-year assault weapons ban passed during the Clinton administration was only months from expiration. Gun control activists, frantic to gain an extension, recruited law enforcement officials to sign petitions indicating their support for the ban. Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent, lately a Republican seeking Floridas District 5 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, was among the signatories.
Asked during Wednesdy nights debate at the Groves Golf and Country Club about his endorsement of the ban then, and what he thinks now, Nugent explained that he is now pretty much a Second Amendment purist. But understand, he said, the petition came to him in the emotional aftermath of Hank Earl Carrs murderous rampage, which began in Tampa and reached its bloody conclusion in a convenience store just off Interstate 75 in Hernando County. Two Tampa cops and a Florida Highway Patrolman were among his victims.
Carrs weaponry included a Glock he wrestled from a Tampa detective and, Nugent noted, an assault rifle. What he failed to mention is that Carr retrieved it from the trunk of the police car in which he was briefly a passenger. Clearly, whatever the merits of a national ban on assault weapons, unless the prohibition were to extend to law enforcement, it would have made no difference on this particular day.
Speaking of which, the infamous day of Carrs killing spree was May 19 ... 1998, fully six years before Nugent inked the petition.
(Excerpt) Read more at tboblogs.com ...
The inconsistencies abound here.
Of course, there is an alternative explanation:
Sheriff Rich Nugent is full of --it and will say anything to get elected today in a conservative district that believes in the 2nd amendent.
My favorite quote from the article:
Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent, lately a Republican
Honestly, Mr. Jackson, I'm not so sure.
I stand with Jason Sager in Florida's 5th Congressional District. |
He sure isn’t Uncle Ted Nugent!
This whole voting household is for Jason Sager. Stand with Sager.
LIAR
President Reagan actually got shot personally and didn't go running off at the mouth and making dumb decisions.
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