Posted on 04/05/2007 12:47:51 PM PDT by mrhansen
(I should note that Fred's a Republican and a staunch defender of the Bush Administration, so this was not meant in a mocking way).
Kinda like John Kerry explaining how he hunted deer, crawling through the woods etc.
I think Kerry was having a Viet Nam flashback.
Just because he joined the NRA has nothing to do with support of the 2nd Amendment. Beware Beware.
If hunting stories qualify a presidential candidate as pro-gun then I’d like to hear about his experiences that qualify him as pro-heterosexual—how many times, where, with whom, details....
Some of my good friends are Calvinist!
He supported the Assault Weapons Ban back in 94, but now he is claiming to be a pro-gun, all-American hunter type?
Yeah, ok...it’s only about hunting. /s
Maybe one of his wives does his own custom reloads while he is out on the campaign trail.
I guess I'd have to see you catch. LOL.
I am a lifelong dancer too. But never got paid for it. I danced when I was young and have taken it up again recently. I consider myself a lifelong dancer even though I didn't dance continuously. It's like riding a bike, catching a ball, shooting a gun, you never forget.
Feb 18 transcript in which Romney supports banning certain classes of firearms:
Stephanopoulos: Let’s talk about guns. You were supportive of the Brady bill, the handgun waiting period, in the past. You signed an assault weapon ban into law and you said, in the past, “I don’t line up with the NRA.”
Now, you…
Mitt Romney: Well, on that issue.
Stephanopoulos: Now you’re a member of the NRA.
Mitt Romney: Yes, and I know the NRA does not support an assault weapon ban. So I don’t line up on that particular issue with the NRA, either does President Bush. He likewise says he supported an assault weapon ban.
Today we don’t have the Brady bill because we have instantaneous background checks. That’s no longer a operative or needed measure. [so please don’t diss me for supporting it...]
But I’m a strong proponent of Second Amendment rights. I believe people, under our Constitution, have the right to bear arms. [Just not “assault weapons” whatever they are]
We have a gun in one of our homes. It’s not owned by me, it’s owned by my son, but I’ve always considered it sort of mine. [which is why I said I was a gun owner a month or so ago, but I’m really not]
Stephanopoulos: When did you join the NRA?
Mitt Romney: Within the last year and I signed up for a lifelong membership. I think they’re doing good things and I believe in supporting the right to bear arms. [exept “assault weapons” whatever they are]
I’ve been a hunter all my life, not frequently, but as a boy, when I worked on a ranch in Idaho, we used to go out shooting rabbits, because they were eating all the barley, and I got pretty good with a single shot .22 rifle, and been quail hunting more recently*. [But now I claim not to be good with a single-shot. It took the power and deadliness of a semi-auto to get those rabbits!]
So I’m a hunter and believe in Second Amendment rights, but I also believe that assault weapons are not needed in the public population.
[end transcript]
Romney supports a Federal ban on Assault Weapons, but I doubt he knows what they are.
*Yet when the hunters who were at the Governor’s Association posed with their guns and birds, Romney was not in the picture for some reason).
There are phonies, and there are Massachusetts phonies, and then there are Romneys. This guy is in a league of his own.
Yeah, Mitt, because semi-autos are much more deadly than single-shots, eh? He sure knows a lot about guns and hunting!
He’s not even a HINO.
“Maybe one of his wives”
He’s the only one in the top 3 or 4 pubbies who has only had one wife.
Play fair.
Unless Thompson actually does get into the race (he is tens of millions down right now, at this very second) Romney is the “best” of a bad bunch of republicans who have raised the cash to run in 08.
Hunter is better, but he also may not be viable enough to win.
Oh dear what will the gunnuts do?
The guy has hunted and strongly supports the Second Amendment.
Stupid issue. I don’t hunt much at all, but would call myself a lifelong hunter. If somebody tried to take my guns, they are going to have a bit of trouble.
Add this to all the other stuff he’s backpedaling from... what are this guys core values? I don’t need a candidate who practices political taqiyya. It’s not that he’s a hunter or not a hunter, as if that had anything to do with the 2nd Amendment; its that he stretches the truth like another clown from Massachusetts. Who wants to have to check up on their candidate as if he were a kid who couldn’t be trusted to tell the truth. This guy is bad news.
You are correctomundo!
If Zumbo wants to do some good, he could write to Romney and explain that the term “assault weapon” was invented by anti-gunners in order to outlaw military-looking semi-automatic firearms. Romney is not only anti-gun, he is ignorant.
“No, but they’re easier to aim!”
Aiming is independent of action type and you know it! That’s why Romney’s statement is bogus.
If you can draw a bead on a squirrel noggin with a semi, you can do it with a bolt, pump, or belt-fed 10-22.
The National Match Rifle course was originally set up for bolt action.
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