There's no such thing as a "gun show loophole".
Freedom isn’t a loophole.
Every conversational slip-up/gaffe made by Republicans comes from accepting the proffered premise. All of them, every one, without exception. It is so flaming stupid and infinitely frustrating to get tripped up by this hidden need to be liked, to be “forthright” to people trying like hell to rip your guts out. It’s like losing a chess game in the first 4 moves, there are 3-4 ways to do this, and once you have learned those, you should never be subject to those blunders again, ever.
You NEVER EVER EVER see liberals do this. NEVER. They NEVER answer an question, no matter how pat, with a “yes” or “no”. They ALWAYS question the reporter’s premise. There is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to be gained by giving ANY answer to a MSM reporter. An aspiring GOP representative will NEVER be quoted accurately, or will NEVER be granted the proper consideration of context, or will actually be cut-and-pasted to give a negative impression.
I am full convinced that the GOP is above all, dedicated to losing to Democrats on my “Harlem Globetrotter” theory....with the idea that in a 2-party system, the job security of the #2 team is identical to the job security of the #1 team.
It absolutely kills me that GOP’ers will spend tens of millions trashing the conservative base and viciously undermining conservative candidates and will not spend $1000 or $2500 or whatever it takes to get the right kind of speaking and “reporter response” training to their candidates. Or even worse, that these candidates think they do not need it and spend their own damn money on themselves.
He should have turned the tables on the reporter and asked her if she knew that there were no Constitutional provisions for police protection.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/28scotus.html?_r=0
His response should have been “Thank you for making YOUR position on this issue clear to everyone. But I didn’t understand you to be running for office ...”
“Sasse replied by saying she “named another one I didn’t understand.”
“The no compromise stance?” Williams said.
“I don’t know what that means,” Sasse said.
Then he turned the tables on Williams, saying her characterization of “the gun show loophole” is “pretty obviously a journalistic category to have called it a loophole to begin with.” Williams seemed taken aback.
“What is often called the gun show loophole is regularly about family to family transactions,” Sasse said, adding he doesn’t think the government should regulate the sale of guns between fathers and daughters or brothers and sisters.
There are a “bunch of technical issues there we could certainly unpack,” he offered before the moderator moved on to the next candidate.”
Looks to me like he answered correctly. Since there is no such thing as the ‘gun show loophole, it’s reasonable to tell her he doesn’t know what it is.
I think I'll just go to his site again and send him a few more dollars!