Posted on 12/19/2005 3:45:14 PM PST by pabianice
Party eyes inroads in the West
WASHINGTON -- The Democratic Party, long identified with gun control, is rethinking its approach to the gun debate, seeking to improve the chances of its candidates in Western states where hunters have been wary of casting votes for a party with a national reputation of being against guns.
The Democrats' effort to soften their rhetoric on gun control is similar to the party's recent efforts to recast its message on abortion, maintaining their support of abortion rights but welcoming more Democrats who favor restrictions on the procedure.
Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, who had been a critic of some forms of gun control during his tenure as governor of Vermont, has urged candidates to view gun control laws as state issues, allowing those in rural states to reflect the values of hunters and others hostile to gun control, while supporting restrictions in urban areas with serious crime problems.
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The democrats would like to outlaw ammunition or at least tax the daylights out of it. They got burned when they banned guns, so this is their new approach. They continue to dig a deeper hole.
Whenever I see this kind of tripe, I remember why I changed party affiliation. In order to be a democrat, you have to lie to defend your position.
"They really think voters are that stupid".
I refuse to accept any democrat as a fellow American.They are born as garbage and carried out as trash.
well SOMEBODY keeps electing the KKK... (kennedy/kerry klan)
It tickles me that they equate the right to bear arms with hunting.
It saddens me that the general public does, too.
TLR
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