Posted on 09/21/2007 2:36:52 PM PDT by neverdem
Rudy Giuliani told the National Rifle Association Friday that his own views on gun control have evolved in part due to the Sept. 11 attacks, which he said highlighted the importance of the Second Amendment right of allowing law-abiding citizens to carry guns.
Facing a group that he once likened to "extremists," Giuliani sought to temper his past strong support for national gun control laws by saying he could no longer support a lawsuit he filed as New York mayor in 2000, which was designed to hold gun-makers liable for gun violence.
Giuliani said "there have been subsequent intervening events -- Sept. 11 -- which casts somewhat of a different light on the Second Amendment and Second Amendment rights. It doesn't change the fundamental rights, but maybe it highlights the necessity for them more."
Giuliani has built his presidential campaign on convincing Republicans that his performance after the Sept. 11 attacks shows he is the strong leader America needs -- but it was the first time he had linked his personal views on gun control to the terror attacks.
The lawsuit -- which ironically was being debated in a New York appeals court Friday as well -- was one of the sharpest points of disagreement between Giuliani and the gun–rights lobby, which he criticized as President Bill Clinton's leading Republican ally in pushing for a national assault weapons ban.
Giuliani rival John McCain also criticized the former mayor's tactics Friday, calling it a "particularly devious effort to use lawsuits to bankrupt our great manufacturers. A number of big-city mayors decided it was more important to blame the manufacturers of a legal product than it was to control crime in their own cities."
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson also addressed the meeting of about 400 NRA members, winning by far the...
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Rudy seems to really WANT to be president more now than he used to. Early in his campaign, he was speaking more or less from the heart and not pandering nearly as much. It seems like, with his poll numbers so high he’s starting to think “holy cow, I might actually have a chance to win this thing” so he’s ratcheting the pandering up several notches.
Just wonder when he will get that “seen the light” when it comes to terror and America....Dubai Ports/UAE and NAU/Nafta Superhighway
What a fraud
How dare you question Rudy’s patriotism! Don’t you know he served in 9/11? < /S >
Well, if you are close enough....and have enough clips...and plenty of time....
Good question. I don't mind (and don't believe) if Rudy's had a Road to Damascus-style conversion about upholding the 2nd amendment. But, he's really going to have to 'splain to me just how an armed citizenry would've kept the Islamo-psychotics from slamming airplanes into the WTC.
So the Bill of Rights is subjet to whatever events may have transpired and hows those events have changed our views. Man, that is scarey stuff which turns the BOR into a house of cards. Oh yeah, and Guliani is shameless.
I think you are confused. It was Paul Kersey who cleaned up New York.
Quit looking, detecting BS at this level doesn’t require instrumentation, just smell.
If you believe Rudy has had a change of heart regarding the citizens owning of firearms I have a Bridge in New York that I would like to sell you ! Small denomination bills only no consecutive serial numbers please.
“Giuliani rival John McCain also criticized the former mayor’s tactics Friday, calling it a “particularly devious effort to use lawsuits to bankrupt our great manufacturers. A number of big-city mayors decided it was more important to blame the manufacturers of a legal product than it was to control crime in their own cities.”
Boy, McCain knocked that one out of the park
Anyone who believes this blatant liar should be expelled from any RKBA organization they belong to.
The man will say anything.
Rudy is such a political whore!
Hey Doc thanks for the ping ~
I only buy fertilizer in the spring ......all these polidiots are selling their BS waaay too early for my needs..........:o)
I vote on ones past record. Polidiots earn the public’s distrust for a reason. They will say anything for votes.
No one in the race has earned my vote yet with their polished pandering to the public and the presstitutes.
Stay Safe ~
BS at this level requires a life preserver. I spent three years in Korea from '95-98, and although it was not a major story at the time, one of the news items I distinctly recall from shortly after my return was how then-Mayor Giuliani wanted to seize the vehicles of persons arrested for DUI. I thought that sounded very third-worldy power mongerer then, and I still am of the belief that there's very little difference in the degree to which Hillary or Rudy would like to run each and every person's life and control or limit property rights, etc.
Since presidential campaigns are now 2+ years in the making, I believe we should make each declared candidate the president of a homeowner's association during that timeframe. I'm guesing we'd see their true colors in that environment a lot more clearly than we see them on the campaign trail.
That was my first reaction. What a lying jerk.
God help us all.....
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