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Rob Kailey is a working schmuck with no ties or affiliations to any governmental or political organizations, save those of sympathy.
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Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 21:25:46 PM MST
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| During the last election, I wrote a post about the NRA backing Conrad Burns over Jon Tester, even though Tester had the better record on the Second Amendment. (Notably Tester - like the NRA - opposed the Patriot Act, which Conrad Burns supported, defended, and apparently bathed with.) The implication then was that the NRA is a group that supports the Republican party, not gun rights.
And now the NRA faces another choice: gun control or Republican. Today the organization held a conference with the Republican presidential candidates seeking out their endorsement. One of the candidates seeking this endorsement is the front runner, Rudi Giuliani. Only thing, Giuliani has a less-than-stellar record on gun rights, to put it mildly:
But even as the former New York mayor strives to burnish his Second Amendment credentials at the gathering in Washington, a panel of federal judges in his home town will be hearing arguments on the lawsuit that Giuliani filed seven years ago aimed at punishing the nation's gun manufacturers for violent crimes involving firearms.
Announcing the lawsuit in 2000, then-Mayor Giuliani wrote in his weekly column about issues facing the city that "this is an industry which profits from the suffering of innocent people. The lawsuit is intended to end the free pass that the gun industry has enjoyed for a very long time, which has resulted in too many avoidable deaths."
He called the lawsuit "an aggressive step towards restoring accountability to an industry that profits from the suffering of others."
Oops!
The only problem is that Giuliani is the front-runner among Republican presidential candidates. It's quite possible he takes the nomination. So, it's up to the NRA: support the Republican, or stick to its mission and values. (Or maybe they'll just be charmed by the phone call he took while on stage.)
It's worth keeping an eye on... |
| Jay Stevens :: NRA on Giuliani: to endorse or not to endorse? |
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