Posted on 02/05/2016 1:30:35 PM PST by richardb72
Hillary Clinton has made gun control a major part of her presidential campaign, at least in New Hampshire.
Over the last month, a quarter of all of her campaign ads in New Hampshire have focused on gun control. In rural areas of Iowa, by contrast, she did not run a single ad related to gun control. In all of Iowa, just six percent of her ads discussed guns.
Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, recently wrote in the Union Leader attacking Bernie Sanders. He recycles Clinton’s rhetoric on the issue.
Gross asserts: “Brady background checks have blocked more than 2.4 million gun sales to prohibited purchasers like convicted violent criminals, domestic abusers and the dangerously mentally ill.†In reality, there were 2.4 million “initial denials,†virtually all of which turned out to be mistaken.
It is one thing to stop a felon from getting a gun, but it is something quite different to stop someone whose name is similar to that of a felon. The late Sen. Ted Kennedy was held up at the airport five times because someone with a similar name was on the no-fly list. Would Mr. Gross really say that a terrorist was prevented from flying on five occasions? Presumably not, but that’s the way that he counts the Brady background checks. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
Different push button issues for different sections of America. A sure sign of sincerity?
Theodore Oldsmobile Kennedy?
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