Why Guns?

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[Geritol]

bump for later

[Mr. Mojo]

Thanks for bumping this up. ....It's a good one.

[Mr. Mojo]

BTTT

[Mr. Mojo]

BTTT

[supercat]

What a load of crap. Without the NRA, we'd have President Gore to contend with, now.

You don't think millions of gun owners would have realized Gore was bad news if the NRA hadn't told them?

Look at October 1996. Do you think it's any coincidence that shortly after the NRA indicated they'd give their whole-hearted, even if back-handed, endorsement to any Republican who was less vocally anti-gun than their opponent(1) the Congress passed by incredible margins (97-2 in the Senate!) the most eggregiously-unconstitutional anti-gun legislation to date(2)?

(1) Feel free to offer your own interpretation of the NRA Board of Directors' statement, but to me, the above cited subtext was abundantly clear. Note that Bob Dole was as responsible for the AWB and Brady Act as Clinton, since he used his position as Senate Majority Leader to get those bills resurected after they'd been successfully killed.

(2) The Lautenberg Abomination, which imposes retroactive punishments upon misdemeanants, allows people's rights to be indefinitely denied without so much as an allegation of actual wrongdoing, involves the federal government in state civil matters, and attempts to legislatively re-instate a statute (Gun Free School Zones Act) that had already been struck down by the Supreme Court.

Does anyone believe the above is merely a coincidence?

[Mr. Mojo]

Bang!

[FreedomPoster]

Works-for-me ping.

[biblewonk]

Guns are light weight compared to abortion when it comes to guaging politicians.

[bullseye1911]

BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!

[Mr. Mojo]

Just your opinion.......which happens to be dead wrong.

In 1943 Hitler made abortion a crime.

He also outlawed guns for the citizenry.

Which position was a better gauge of the man?

[biblewonk]

The ole "That's sounds like Hitler" defense huh? LOL

[Mr. Mojo]

Figures......didn't address my question.

Let's try again -- which position was a better gauge of the man?

[biblewonk]

I'm not jumping through your silly hoop.

[Mr. Mojo]

Oh btw, I'm pro-life to the core.

I just happen to know that a person's view on the RKBA is far more telling than his view on abortion.

[Mr. Mojo]

That's because you're defenseless.

[biblewonk]

Abortion is a better guage. The majority of people against abortion are Christians. The gun issue is a huge grey scale with a million points on which to stand. It doesn't bother me too much if someone thinks you shouldn't be able to have a mini gun mounted on your car but it does bother me when someone uses words like "it's a woman's right to choose". That tells me a lot more about the man.

[newgeezer]

It doesn't bother me too much if someone thinks you shouldn't be able to have a mini gun mounted on your car

"Too much"? Does that position bother you at all?

Your point might be more meaningful if you pick an example of a position that bothers you at least a little, such as one which favors the total abolition of all restrictions on adult concealed carry (see "Vermont").

Of course, if that bothers you "too much," ... well, then you'll need to pick something else. ;O)

[biblewonk]

My point was that there are a million steps in that position. Actually if I had to chose between a candidate that was against abortion completely vs a candidate that was against private ownership of machine guns and against ccw, it's a pretty easy choice. I think most republicans are weaker on their abortion stand yet match that gun stand.

[stevio]

Gun rights are the first thing I look at when voting precisely for the reasons he so eloquently states.

[Gritty]

Mr. Smith has hit the "10 ring"!