Posted on 07/24/2016 6:47:48 AM PDT by Zakeet
When Hillary Clinton introduced her running mate to the nation, it was remarkable what topic got the crowd most excited: gun rights. Just the mention of the National Rifle Association Saturday prompted the room in Miami into a roar.
At Brooklyn headquarters, aides smiled.
This was, after all, the fight they wanted. Please, some thought, keep talking about guns. It was a fight that strategists saw as an upside: it calmed progressives’ furor over Kaine, seen in some circles as too moderate for a party still overcoming a passionate swoon with Bernie Sanders. And the subject of guns has a proven appeal for a crucial Clinton voting blocs, especially suburban women, who have shown themselves to be lukewarm on some of her other proposals.
"Tim has a backbone of steel. Just ask the NRA. Over and over again he has had the courage to stand up to the Gun Lobby in their own backyard," Clinton said on Saturday afternoon. "He has fought for common sense gun reform."
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People close to Kaine say he has long opposed free-for-all guns. He's no absolutist on the Second Amendment—in either direction—but he has throughout his career said common sense has a place in interpreting the nation’s founding document, which was created in an era of muskets and bayonets.
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agreed
“Yeah, you go ahead and base your campaign on gun bans.”
And just ignore those long lines of good guy/girl Americans down at the gun store.
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He’s young, and I’m pretty sure he will sort himself out. In the meantime, a lot of young people are hearing another view of things from him, a view to which they may not otherwise have paid any attention.
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Yet, nary will you hear “20K+ gun ‘laws’” or “40yrs and 11M+ criminal aliens” appended by “...haven’t worked, yet you want to add MORE??”
..He has fought for common sense gun reform...
With a daily sales volume of 60,000 guns sold daily in the USA ove the last 8 years, the Democrat Felon and her new accomplice really have their work cut out for them
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