The 2004 Hunt. Presidential candidates on guns.

NRO ^ | November 18, 2003, 9:11 a.m. | By John R. Lott Jr.

[.cnI redruM]

>>>>>>>>>>>>Howard Dean supports extending the assault-weapons ban next year "because I never met a hunter who needed an AK-47 to shoot a deer."

Principle-Powered Howard gets to Bush's right on guns. What a protector of the 2nd Amendment.

>>>>>Senator John Kerry offered, "When I go out there and hunt, I'm going out there with a 12-gauge shotgun, not an assault weapon."

John 'Wayne' Kerry, Great White Hunter of the Wild Frontier, has probably hunted no further for red meat than Outback Steakhouse.

What an utter load of pandering crap!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lee Heggy]

It's been pretty obvious for quite awhile that our government is scared to death of an armed populace that has the capability to restore the liberties they have played so fast and loose with. All this talk of hunting and such is crap. I want my right to hold a gun to assure that our high and mighty have real a reason to do the right thing by the electorate and don't get too high and mighty. The people quoted in this article are just the sort who need to have that uppermost in their minds when they legislate on our behalf.

[vpintheak]

It funny to think that the first court decision about guns control was a gangster that could not prove that his shotgun was for military purposes. Because of that he lost the case. Now you can't have a gun for military purposes, as per the second amendment. How in the world did that happen?

[Fee]

Dear Sen Kerry. If the terrorist decides to attack soft targets such as a sleeping suburban street in the middle of the night with automatic gunfire (see the movie Invasion USA starring Chuck Norris), you can confront them with a 12 GA shotgun or 3 shot bolt action rifle. I will grab my "assault rifle", and at the end of the shoot out, let's see who would be found dead on his lawn with an empty weapon in one hand and live rounds clutched in the other hand in desperate attempt to reload. You didn't learn anything in Vietnam, sir.

[goldstategop]

With their hostility to gun owners, good luck to the Democrats on winning the South.

[bc2]

"When I go out there and hunt, I'm going out there with a 12-gauge shotgun, not an assault weapon."

When you have a Mossberg 590, your 12 guage shotgun IS an assault rifle... heh eheh heh heheheh (evil laugh)

Amendment II: A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

does anyone see the word "hunt" in there???

[JoJo Gunn]

Who makes you feel safer, the Right or the Left?

[.cnI redruM]

does anyone see the word "hunt" in there???

Only if the game is Al Quaeda and the bag limit does not exist.

[ArrogantBustard]

With their hostility to gun owners ... winning the South.

Hmmm.... Candidate Bush promised to sign an Ugly Gun ban renewal, if presented with such. President Bush has not repudiated said promise.

If the Republican Party aparatchiks want this Southron to vote for Mr. Bush in November 2004, they had bloody well better make sure he doesn't have an opportunity to act on that promise. If an Ugly Gun ban renewal even progresses so far as to be voted on by a subcommittee, they haven't been doing their jobs.

[neverdem]

I was just about to go to NRO. Thanks for saving me the trouble.

[caltrop]

Did you forget to mention that President Bush also supports extending the ban?

[mushroom]

Classic bait and switch. Bush only promised to sign the gun ban because he knows it will never hit his desk. Gets a few soccer moms (aka sucker moms) and doesn't upset those of us who aren't afraid of the looks of a weapon.

[.cnI redruM]

I didn't forget. It just won't ever get near his desk, once the House votes it down.

[ArrogantBustard]

because he knows it will never hit his desk.

Yeah, yeah, yeah... It bloody well better "never hit his desk". That of course, is up to the leadership of the Congress. And to Mr. Bush himself, through back-channel arm twisting.

[LTCJ]

Governor Howard Dean supports extending the assault-weapons ban next year "because I never met a hunter who needed an AK-47 to shoot a deer."

Mr. Dean, let me make this a clear as I can: The Second Amendment to the Constitution is not about sporting, and the targets implicit in its guarantee consist neither of paper nor venison.

[ArrogantBustard]

once the House votes it down.

If it gets that far somebody, some (sub)committee chairman, hasn't been doing his job.

[.cnI redruM]

As Zell said of Hatred-Powered Howard; he's glib, but not very deep.

[.cnI redruM]

That's true as well. Which committee would get that bill?

[caltrop]

That's interesting. Are you then suggesting that, if Dean or Kerry were President the House would pass it and send it to him? If so, I'd have to differ. In a case where the President was a Democrat, the Republican controlled House (and its members) wouldn't be under the pressure of party discipline to support their Republican President, as they are today.

[Texas Federalist]

It funny to think that the first court decision about guns control was a gangster that could not prove that his shotgun was for military purposes. Because of that he lost the case. Now you can't have a gun for military purposes, as per the second amendment. How in the world did that happen?
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Actually, he never even showed up to argue his case in front of the Supreme Court. The Court said that they would not take notice of the fact that a shotgun hjad a military purpose in the absence of any evidence. Had he not fled, he might have won.