Posted on 04/20/2012 6:04:16 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
NEW YORK—President Barack Obama should not bother trying to pass gun-control legislation because the issue is partly cultural and Obama is from an urban area, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday. Clinton was asked about the gun issue during his keynote address at a New York City conference on sustainability.
The former president said Obama is from Chicago and "he was in the state Senate from the most liberal district in Chicago."
Clinton said he was able to sign the 1993 Brady handgun law, which mandated federal background checks for gun buyers, because he was from Arkansas, had grown up among hunters and had hunted in his youth.
"I knew what to do," Clinton said. "They couldn't turn me into some freak, and I went after them."
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From a distance, even liberals realize that Clinton is almost(but not quite) as vapid a dork as Obama.
The GOP would be wise to use gun control as a means of dividing blacks from the democrats. The news out of Detroit and other cities with stand your ground laws are full of stories of blacks protecting themselves with guns.
In Fairness, King Putt has hunted before... For lots of lost presidential golf balls, and back in the land of birth for his next meal of dog.
The KKK and the NAACP agree: both think blacks should not be able to buy guns to protect themselves.
that’s why your buddy Al lost his home state, dipwad
I guess having both a Democrat majority in both the house and senate had no bearing on this. /sarc
The tide has been running against Gun Control since before Obama arrived on the national scene — he just accelerated it with his marxist rhetoric.
If you recall, Al Gore & John Kerry both ran and hid on the issue of Guns. Their polling showed them that the traditional democrat stance on gun control was a very big loser for them. Which is not to say that democrats haven’t continued to seek backdoor ways to regulate firearms.
The tide has been running against Gun Control since before Obama arrived on the national scene — he just accelerated it with his marxist rhetoric.
If you recall, Al Gore & John Kerry both ran and hid on the issue of Guns. Their polling showed them that the traditional democrat stance on gun control was a very big loser for them. Which is not to say that democrats haven’t continued to seek backdoor ways to regulate firearms.
Good idea, but the left does a better job of telling them that they're victims. That only THEY can help them.
Right, Bill. That's why even Barney Frank repeatedly told his Democrat colleagues to avoid gun-control legislation like the plague - he saw that it brought out the heaviest opposition and prevented the Democrats from holding power long enough to do some other things that they wanted.
The '94 election results were in no small part a result of Clinton's anti-gun agenda. And as far as turning Clinton into a "freak", I recall Wayne LaPierre angering ol' Slick considerably, when he said that Clinton needed a certain amount of gun-related violence to further his agenda. Didn't back down when Bill attempted a rebuttal, either.
No Bubba, they couldn't turn you into some freak: you did that all by yourself.
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>> Clinton ... had grown up among hunters and had hunted in his youth.
Many are BillyJeff’s fond memories of slipping into the woods, bars, and political rallies, slightly bent gun at the ready, stalking the elusive Poontang.
Lest we all forget......the Brady Bill so mobilized the gun owners that the libtards were butchered at the polls in 1994 suffering the greatest electoral defeat since 1860. They lost control of the House with a 54 vote gain and the Senate with a 6 seat? gain. Tom Dashcle got fired by SD.
Gingrich and the Class of 94 held the drunken draft dodging dope smoking dirty old bastard in check and actually forced budgetary restraint on him....that of course he and the libtards claim as their own.
Even too stupid by 1/2 Bill Clinton admitted the NRA handed him his head in the 94 mid terms.
I thought Clinton hunted the double-breasted bed-thrasher.
>> I thought Clinton hunted the double-breasted bed-thrasher.
He wasn’t picky about what he trained his gun on.
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