Posted on 02/17/2009 6:29:08 AM PST by epow
Carolyn McCarthy has already attacked her. So it won’t be long before she does a 180.
Does she think the little people can do the same?
...or when she finds she just doesn’t get invited to the ‘right” cocktail parties...
Always read the fine print. The message here is she will protect 'sportsmen', but not ALL weapons. Watch AWB support and registration positions somewhere along the line.
Anyone who keeps rifles under the bed for protection has not thought things through, or is a dem gungrabber lying to get cred with the firearms community.
Dosn’t she have kids running around the house?
She has already gone 180 on illegal immigration in yesterday’s Newsday.She’s just another politician saying
what she needs to get elected.
I agree. She’ll support a hunter owning an appropriate registered shotgun, as long as sensible safety, licensing, and storage precautions are followed.
Now she claims her rifles are no longer under the bed.
Don’t fall for it. She was picked for a reason. She voted for the ‘stimulus’ package and ran on a hate Bush/hate the war platform in 2006.
Unless a politician overtly says that they support the 2nd amendment, they are all full of sh*@ and use euphemisms like ‘hunter’s rights’ and ‘anti gun violence’.
She’s like all the other dems.
You know, I don’t really care if she has a bazooka under her bed. As a politician, all I care about is what her stance is on the second amendment. It has never impressed me to see politicians duck hunting or whatever. What impresses me is their votes on the second amendment. I think Fred Thompson campaigned the best concerning the 2nd amendment. You wouldn’t see him out hunting or skeet shooting. No, you would see him visiting a gun show or a gun store. That’s what it’s about, the availability of guns and ammo to the American citizen for protection against criminals and their government (often one and the same).
Exactly. Any politician who claims to support the RKBA because of hunting is a almost always a fraud, and will NOT support the original intent of the 2nd Amendment, i.e., to guarantee that the people themselves would always have the power to overthrow a centralized authoritarian government by armed force if necessary. And a centralized authoritarian government is precisely what the Magic Kenyan and his behind-the-curtain handlers intend to establish.
Well actually it has already been incrementally established over the last 7 or 8 decades to a large degree, but the Magic Kenyan with a majority Democrat Congress backing him up will bring it to a new level of authoritarianism that FDR and LBJ could only dream about.
You can’t have a gun under your bed? What’s wrong with these people? They’re not acting in anybody’s interest, they’re dictators.
Rifles for home defense.
It may be the thought that counts, in which case she needs to apply more of it.
Shotguns first, hand guns second, rifles a distant third in home defense.
When an intruder comes around the corner of your hall and runs into you, which do you want? The short shotgun with the open choke so you can spray anthing in the general vicinity, but not kill the kids in the next room? The handgun that you can swing in his direction quickly without having the muzzle batted away? Or the rifle which takes some time to get on target, and will go through three walls to kill your neighbor?
Sheesh, what a lightweight. The only home defense weapon anyone should consider is a 12 ga pump loaded with buckshot.
We need to know a little more about that neighbour............
>>”Any politician who claims to support the RKBA because of hunting is a almost always a fraud, and will NOT support the original intent of the 2nd Amendment...”<<
Well said. NRA granted her an “A” rating over her opponent, Sandy Treadwell, who is a hunter and long time gun owner!
I like the idea of a shotgun for home defense. I keep a Remington 870 pump in our bedroom loaded with buckshot, along with a .38 revolver on the nightstand in case I'm ever awakened by an intruder already in the room and can't get to the long gun in time. Call me paranoid if you like, but out here in the boondocks where I live the county's LEOs are not likely to be anywhere around if I ever need them at 3AM.
However, the mental picture that many people have gotten from typical Hollywood action films of a shotgun blast spraying a large area with pellets that throw bad guys across the room and out through a plate glass window is ridiculous. The buckshot pattern from even an open choke 18" barrel at the short range inside a 20' x 20' room is no wider than my hand, and that means you can't just spray and pray that you will hit the bad guy. Even at across-the-room range a shotgun has to aimed if you want to hit what you're shooting at, no matter whether it's me or Steven Segal doing the shooting.
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