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Liddy Dole Wins Support in Carolina

Elizabeth Dole has been quietly charming the voters in North Carolina and leads the pack to replace Jesse Helms next year in the U.S. Senate. And the Tarheel native is proving she's no Hillary Clinton carpetbagger.

At "events around the state, Mrs. Dole, 65, has been received like the celebrity she is, attracting outsized crowds in tiny towns," and she leads all polls, the New York Times reported.

One Republican opponent "has attacked Mrs. Dole on perceived shifts in her position on gun control, a critical issue to conservatives. While campaigning for president in 1999, Mrs. Dole opposed laws allowing people to carry concealed weapons and supported legislation to ban assault weapons," the Times said.

"Now facing a more conservative electorate, she wrote to the North Carolina Rifle and Pistol Association pledging to 'oppose restrictions on the ownership of firearms that penalize the law-abiding citizen.' In the interview, she described herself as 'a strong supporter of the Second Amendment,' and said the assault weapons ban appeared to have had little effect on crime and should not be extended or expanded until studied further.

"She also said she would have 'no trouble supporting' North Carolina's concealed weapons law, which requires passing a gun safety test before being allowed to carry a concealed weapon and restricts where guns can be carried," the newspaper reported.

Steve Odom, the Republican sheriff of Graham County, said he was satisfied with her stand on the issues. "I don't know that the Republican Party could ever find someone to replace Jesse Helms, but Elizabeth is conservative enough for me."

She has maintained close ties to the state in the decades she has lived in Washington, and recently took title to the house in Salisbury where her 100-year-old mother lives.

"Of course, they tried to pack her off as another Hillary," Chester W. Crisp, the Republican chairman in Graham County, told the Times. "But she's not. She's a native North Carolinian, so she's our own flesh and blood."

Elizabeth Dole did say some things about gun control. Assault weapons should be banned, she argued, noting, correctly, that "you don't need an AK-47 to defend your family." Gun-show vendors should require a three-day waiting period for buyers. And "it's wrong," she declared, "to let people carry concealed weapons."

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I wouldnt vote for dole if my butt was in fire and she owned the only bucket she made her choice on Gun Control years ago........ now SHES FLIP FLOPPING TO WIN AN ELECTION !!!!!!!

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Elizabeth Dole did say some things about gun control. Assault weapons should be banned, she argued, noting, correctly, that "you don't need an AK-47 to defend your family."

Did she say anythign about the horrors of hunting ducks with a "riot gun" or hunting deer with a "sniper rifle"

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It's all about definitions.

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she described herself as 'a strong supporter of the Second Amendment,' and said the assault weapons ban appeared to have had little effect on crime and should not be extended or expanded until studied further. "She also said she would have 'no trouble supporting' North Carolina's concealed weapons law, which requires passing a gun safety test before being allowed to carry a concealed weapon and restricts where guns can be carried,"

Assault weapons should be banned, she argued, noting, correctly, that "you don't need an AK-47 to defend your family".

Sort of a little double speak here.
What does she mean by studied further?

"you don't need an AK-47 to defend your family"

But you may need one to defend your country.