Posted on 11/12/2007 10:23:41 AM PST by radar101
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a quick-trigger, guns-a-blazing action hero in Hollywood, is being blasted by firearms groups as a Second Amendment wimp in the Capitol.
Schwarzenegger's signing of bills to require microstamping of semiautomatic pistols and to ban lead bullets in condor country has prompted gun groups to paint him as one of the state's most anti-gun Republican governors.
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger might as well change his last name to Kennedy because he is acting just like radical, anti-gun U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy, his uncle-in-law," read a recent statement by Gun Owners of California, a nonprofit advocacy group.
"We don't believe he has a very clear understanding of the Second Amendment and what it means to protect the right to keep and bear arms," executive director Sam Paredes added in an interview. "We're very disappointed in his decisions."
Others dismiss such criticism as grossly unfair
"I think a lot of the extremely right-wing Republicans, who won't even vote against outlawing assault weapons, they're going to be upset with him," said Sen. Jack Scott, D-Altadena, who has had gun bills signed and vetoed. "To me, he's just a reasonable person on the issue."
No one who is qualified to buy guns will be prevented from doing so by the microstamping or condor bills, Scott noted.
Aaron McLear, Schwarzenegger's spokesman, described the governor as "largely a centrist" on gun bills who evaluates each on merit, not politics.
"He's not a leader who simply kowtows to a particular constituency," McLear said. "He does what's best for California."
Schwarzenegger, in the past four years, has restricted sale and ownership of the .50-caliber BMG rifle, outlawed the firing of a BB gun in a "grossly negligent" manner, and removed a statutory disincentive for ammunition sellers to check the age of young buyers.
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His wife is in control.
>>”We don’t believe he has a very clear understanding of the Second Amendment and what it means to protect the right to keep and bear arms,” executive director Sam Paredes added in an interview.
Schwartzenkennedy wants to change the rules so he can become President.
I think that Governor Arnold Kennedy should never have signed the microstamping bill, despite what his wife told him to do.
This “microstamping” issue doesn’t make me question his ideology so much as his intelligence. He’s dumb if he thinks this will in any way contribute to solving crimes (any more than the old law of recording handgun ammunition purchases did), and he’s dumb if he doesn’t understand that it’s merely a law to impose higher overhead cost to companies that want to sell their products in California.
I think a lot of the extremely right-wing Republicans, who won’t even vote against outlawing assault weapons, they’re going to be upset with him,” said Sen. Jack Scott, ...
Oh? And what “assualt weapons would those be?”
Can’t say I’ve ever seen many outside of the force.
Wait a minute.
I am not defending Governor Schwarzenegger on signing the CA Microstamping and 'Lead-Free' ammo bills, but to those in the know, Sam Paredes of 'Gun Owners of California' is probably most to blame in regards to the behind the scenes workings of how the bills came to be signed.
What happened was that Paredes had a personal vendetta against a CA Dept of Fish & Game administrator who had been a relatively good friend to the issue of RKBA and decided to lobby the Governor to remove him from his job. Paredes finally managed to get his way and when it came time for the Governor's staff to round up 'Yea-or-Nay' testimony over the two bills in question, the soon-to-be fired administrator spitefully fired back at 'Gun Owners of California' and chose not to support opposition to their signing.
'Gun Owners of California' are not your friends, California shooters. Those schmucks are responsible for more anti-gun legislation being passed than they've defeated.
Yep. Read about it on www.calguns.net
CRPA often makes things worse rather than better.
This coming from someone who is NOT a reasonable person on the issue.
CA State Senator Jack Scott (D, Pasadena) says he'd be "PLEASED" to see guns confiscated from homes
Oh, he’s the one they voted for because he could win. Sound familiar?
He turned out to be the ultimate girly man.
She most likely will divorce him and she has all the pictures. He is frighten.
I wonder where Maria keeps his testicles?
I suspect Sen. Scott's definition of an "assault weapon" is .....
...any firearm.
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