Candy Boo Boo Child, in her role as Official White House Debate Moderator, was trying to 'gotchya' Mitt Romney. It occured late in the debate, when the participants were getting tired, and Mitt has a record of banning them in Massatwoshits.
So Candy was hoping to get Mitt Romney on record as FOR an AW ban, which would have severely depressed his base turnout.
He didn't answer it perfectly, but he didn't do any real damage to himself. On the other hand, OBAMA JUST MOTIVATED THE FIREARMS BASE TO *DEFINITELY* TURN OUT, in 1994 NUMBERS.....
Candy Boo Boo Child / Obama FAIL
Massatwoshits.
lol.
I recall seeing a masterful political cartoon from just after the '94 election, portraying the election results as a gigantic bullet marked "AW Ban" lodged in the wall of the White House. An equally enormous smoking revolver identified as "the voters" was at the left edge of the frame. Rising above the White House, Bubba's thought balloon read "Hey, that was no ordinary potshot", or some such (this was about a month after Francisco Duran emptied his SKS into the front of the WH).
I've searched for that one since but haven't been able to find it. I think the artist was Mike Luckovich... maybe.
You're right, though - even if Romney wasn't flawless, drawing that comment out of Obama was worth a lot of votes. The GOA, NRA, SAS, JPFO, et al better waste no time exploiting the opportunity.