Pretty strong statement about guns, but he doesn't say it someone else does. Kind of the opposite of ‘bitter clingers’ I would say.
The ad plays like clockwork in these parts, too. Former redskins football player, as I recall the ad, head, or part of some “hunting” organization, a group that is anti-gun. That bit about both candidates “protecting our right to own guns” is probably the idea that they’re trying to get across as the anti-gun Gore, as well as the idiot Kerry lost big in the area though they won the state, albeit, by a margin that narrowed...and in ‘08?...