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To: rarestia

Do you have any campaign information or any recent press releases from Christie that are “anti-gun” or are you basing that comment on a 1995 NJ Assembly race flyer that was posted here about a week ago in which Christie attacked opponents for wanting fully automatic weapons legalized?

If you have anything more up to date than that, please share it with us. I haven’t heard anything else about his position on the 2nd Amendment and I’d like to find out more.

(What he did with his runningmate 15 years ago could be completely irrelevant by now. Ronald Reagan was a liberal Democrat at one time. So were a lot of people here. Times change. People change.)


7 posted on 12/06/2010 4:14:09 AM PST by Scanian
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To: Scanian

My specific citation is the same as the one you cite here, and I’ve read several Chris Christie threads that demonstrate that he’s at least averse to the advancement of gun rights. If he can demonstrate any leadership on gun rights in NJ (my birth state), I’ll watch with rapt attention, but his instinctive recoiling at the idea of “automatic weapons” indicates that he might bear watching on the gun rights issue.

If he continues to show leadership on gun rights, I’ll stand behind the man 100%, but I am an issues voter, and gun rights are my primary issue. I would’ve voted for him if I was a NJ resident, but I’m leery anytime someone is on the record as opposing anything concerning personal keeping and bearing of arms.


8 posted on 12/06/2010 4:19:08 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Scanian

On Hannity’s show while Christie was running for governor, Christie asked on which issues he considered himself liberal.

He said he supports NJ’s gun-control legislation.

The guy is pro gun-control. He can’t hide from that.

Now, you may not consider that a critical issue. That’s fine, and if he runs for office on the national level, feel free to vote for him.

But I consider the 2nd Amendment a critical part of that pesky little document that has thus far prevented tyranny in this country called the US Constitution. If Christie runs for office at the national level, I will be voting for whichever candidate is a better supporter of the US Constitution, and I care not which part that candidate is running with, nor that candidate’s chances of winning.


10 posted on 12/06/2010 4:37:45 AM PST by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Scanian
We do, as citizens, have the Constitutional right to possess the same firearms and firepower as have our Military. The Second Amendment's specific charter is to allow for an armed citizenry to act as a permanent check-and-balance against any possible despotic onslaught, tyrannic encroachment, or legislative overreach by our government.

If the government controls the Military (and they do), and if We The People have only pea shooters and the Military has chain-guns, where is our realistic "check-and-balance"?

The only people who fear a law-abiding citizenry with automatic weapons (and fragmentation grenades, rocket luanchers, and Bouncing Bettys) are criminals and tyrants, either one of which is seriously dead if they come within 500 yards of my bivouac.

When people start obeying the illegally restrictive public anti-automatic weapons bans, only criminals will have automatic weapons. Not on my watch.

8^D

16 posted on 12/06/2010 4:53:46 AM PST by Gargantua (Palin puts the "L" in pain... and she's coming for the scumbags!)
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