Romney on Gun Control
Posted on December 16, 2007
Is he really a better choice than say…Rudy?
“My position on guns is the same position I’ve had for a long, long time, and that position is that I don’t line up 100% with the NRA.”
–On guns, he may have gotten himself in trouble, in an attempt to diffuse the flip-flop label, by standing by his support for the Brady Bill and the 1994 assault weapons ban. He even said he would have signed an extension of the assault weapons ban when it expired in 2004. He also employed the odd phrase “weapons of unusual lethality†to describe the type of guns he would ban.
Further disturbance:
Later in the interview, he added the following:
“I just talked about, about guns. I told you what my position was, and what I, what I did as governor; the fact that I received the endorsement of the NRA.”
The problem?
He was never endorsed by the NRA, and didn’t have their official support during his 2002 gubernatorial campaign. The NRA declined to endorse in that race, as was acknowledged by Romney’s spokesman this morning.
“The NRA did not endorse in the 2002 campaign,” said spokesman Kevin Madden, when asked about Romney’s comments. “Mitt Romney as a candidate received a respectable B grade rating from the NRA, and when he was governor he had the support of the NRA and the Gun Owners Action League in relaxing some of the state’s burdensome licensing regulations.”
Michelle finds more where Romney didn’t help himself on this interview.
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I don’t line up 100% with the NRA because I happen to interpret the U.S. Constitution more literally than they do. I see no problem with the federal government requiring people to be trained in the use of firearms before allowing them to legally own or posses one. That is what a militia does.
I don’t line up 100% with the NRA because I happen to interpret the U.S. Constitution more literally than they do.
If that were true kerwin, you would not have said…“I see no problem with the federal government requiring people to be trained in the use of firearms before allowing them to legally own or posses one. That is what a militia does.”