D.C. Rights Group Takes on Montana Senator Tester

No grip at all (0.00 / 0)

The efforts of F&EDCF will gain no traction in this state at all, nor should it.

1)  Montanans aren't going to care, and will likely feel more favorable towards a Senator who favors the 2nd amendment.

2)  Whether Panetta likes it or not, DC is still a federal holding.  Attacking federal lawmakers for being federal lawmakers is pretty goofy on it's face.

3)  DC's gun ban was already stuck down by the SCOTUS, in Heller v. DC.  That was further reinforced by the ruling in McDonald v. Chicago.  Now DC may have about half our population, but Montana remains pretty well educated, especially when it comes to firearms and gun rights.  I'd make book that about twice as many Montanans know about those rulings as residents of DC.

4)  Panetta is lying his ass off. Nowhere does the DC Second Amendment Enforcement Act allow that

anybody would be free to walk around with a semiautomatic rifle in D.C.

That's simply not true.  And here's the real question.  So what if it was?  This is what the legislation actually accomplishes.  It's more than reasonable.  Again, Panetta is lying.

5)  That this legislation is NRA endorsed is little more than a lame attempt at cheap Ad Hominem by association.  And it is just that, cheap.  Everyone who knows me or has read anything I've written about gun rights knows that my opinion of the NRA could charitably be called 'less than favorable'.  But laws stand or fall on their own merit, not who favors such.  Tying Tester to the NRA might play well in Washington DC, but it ain't gonna mean crap in Montana.

In truth, I should be thanking the F&EDCF and you, Matthew.  This might be the best endorsement for reelection that Tester has gotten to date.

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by: Rob Kailey @ Wed Jul 21, 2010 at 21:49:30 PM UTC