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http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20041023-105640-8992r.htm

Kerry and guns

Michael Dukakis's Snoopy-like tank ride did nothing to burnish his defense 
credentials in 1988, other than to highlight his utter inadequacy on 
national-security issues. And photographs of John Kerry brandishing a 
double-barreled shotgun while emerging from an Ohio cornfield with a dead 
goose will not change his well-earned image as the leader of the most anti-
gun rights presidential ticket in history.

    Four years ago, Al Gore espoused less radical positions in opposition 
to gun rights than Mr. Kerry and John Edwards do today, but, according to 
no less than Bill Clinton, those positions cost Mr. Gore the electoral 
votes of New Hampshire and Arkansas, and perhaps the electoral votes of 
Tennessee and Missouri as well. He could have added West Virginia, too, and 
he also acknowledged that the National Rifle Association "nearly whipped us 
in two or three other places," such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and 
Wisconsin.

    An NRA voting analysis found that Mr. Kerry opposed the gun-rights 
position on 55 of the 59 votes he cast on firearms and hunting issues 
during his 20-year Senate career, making him "the most anti-gun 
presidential nominee in U.S. history." Mr. Kerry sports a lifetime 100 
percent voting record from the Brady Campaign, formerly known as Handgun 
Control, Inc. As a senator and longtime opponent of the Second Amendment, 
Mr. Kerry has written to constituents instructing them that "[h]andguns 
pose an increasing danger to the safety and welfare of the American 
public." Illustrating why he is embraced by the trial lawyers, the 
Democratic presidential nominee advocates the extreme position of holding 
gun manufacturers, who are already strictly regulated, liable for the 
actions of criminals who misuse guns. Mr. Kerry has also proposed new taxes 
on guns and ammunition as well.

    It is safe to say that the Second Amendment would be under constant 
assault from the judges that Mr. Kerry would appoint. 
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Also see:  Kerry's two-faced gun imagery hypocrisy should backfire on him!
at http://melissasliberty.blogspot.com/
with photos.

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