Posted on 02/15/2008 4:02:23 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Andrea Mitchell stopped just short of putting an impromptu Obama campaign advisor hat on. But the NBC correspondent has left little doubt she personally feels the time is ripe for Barack Obama to promote gun control as a campaign issue.
Guest co-anchoring today's Morning Joe, Mitchell was discussing yesterday's shootings at Northern Illinois University with Willie Geist.
ANDREA MITCHELL: You know, it does bring to mind all the debates we've had over the years about gun control. I remember covering it on the Hill in the '80s. Of course I know the Bradys and all the efforts they made, and it eventually persuaded Ronald Reagan to switch his position on gun control and depart from what was traditional consersative Republican ideology. And gun control is not yet a big issue in this campaign, but you wonder: Barack Obama is a senator from Illinois. Maybe this will become propelled to the front of the --
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Andrea Mitchell suggesting Obama might make gun control an issue after N. Illinois shootings. Ping to Today show list.
that might just bury him.
OH WAIT—ILLINOIS IS ALREADY A GUN-FREE ZONE!!!
We have the most restrictive gun laws in the country here in Illinois. This shooting should show that they don’t work, yet the lib mob is twisting it to make them even more restrictive.
LLS
These stupid rubes can’t see the truth in front of their faces: these schools are targets because they’re undefended.
Well-aimed return fire would put a stop to this immediately.
No way... it’s better if Obama just lets liberals think he’s going to push for gun control. He won’t actually commit to anything becuase he’d have to defend it. Better to just imply that “something needs to be done” and with a lot of “hope” Father Obama will do “something”. Cue the joyful sobbing.
Rush is right about Obama. He’s become “a blank canvas upon which anyone can project their fantasies and desires.”
Not a chance that statement is true. ;-)
More BS from the MSM. Siddown and STFU, Mrs. Greenspan.
Bring it on.
but but but ...u dont mean....gaspppp
concealed carry do u?
a chance for some one in the crowd to be able to ace a
killer before he reloads?
how ridiculous is THAT?
unbelievably libs think that’s ‘way out’
liberalism: a mental disorder folks....there u have it..
There isn't any "maybe." It's a certainty.
Okay, sweetheart, but your Laventi Pavlovich Beria costume still needs a lot of work.
And, Illinois does not have strong gun control now???????
Yep. If only guns were illegal on Illinois college campuses.
Oh, wait..
Obama doesn’t have to campaign on gun control. If he wins and has a congress with more dem majority (the perfect storm), he can institute all sorts of new control.
“gun control”
What does that mean? Besides taking away the right to bear arms, what exactly do they mean by “gun control”? We already have “controls”
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