Does the guy support the 2nd Amendment? If so, the rest is applesauce.
Did you do this in the Keyword?
wolfinsheepsclothing;
I wish we could click on the KW and see who did it?
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....
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.
He’s not even a HINO.
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.
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.
I don’t need a hunter for president; that’s taken as shorthand for “reg’lar guy, not some dork. Guy you can have a beer with and talk about NASCAR or football.” It’s nice for a politician who genuinely can say he or even she enjoys hunting. Not NECESSARY at all, though.
HOWEVER, no one likes a phony. This here smacks of Al Gore- like “resume padding.”
Wasn’t Kerry an avid goose hunter? once
2 hunts makes a lifelong hunter? That must make me immortal!
Free immortality for everyone on the BangList!
Romney’s hunted twice and calls himself a hunter? In that case, I’m twice the hunter Romney is - and I don’t consider myself a hunter.
Who does Mitt think he’s fooling? Most pro-gunners know that the right to gun ownership, at its core, has nothing to do with hunting.
Don’t own a gun. Don’t want one. But, to me, the 2nd Amendment is locked in stone and is never to be violated.
Why couldn't he have just said "Hi, I'm running for office and will say whatever it is you want me to say"?
I spent last weekend hunting for my car keys. The weekend befire, it was my wallet. Do these count on my resume?
Is it true that a movement is afoot to call off the Republican primaries and substitute a target shooting contest?