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Originally Posted by billamj
Let me ask you this. Which party, on the national level, wants to take our right to own and use firearms away from us so much that it is actually part of the party platform, the Republicans or the Democrats? It has nothing to do with political bias or grandstanding; Schumer, Feinstein, Clinton, Obama, Biden, Boxer, Brown, Cantwell, Carper, Cardin, Dodd, and the list goes on all have two things in common, they are all Senate Democrats and they have all publicly espoused stepping on our rights. Are all Dems anti? Not by a long shot but the vast majority of the party leadership at the national level is and they have made restrictions of ownership part of their party platform. That is enough for me to not support them at the national level.
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If you fall for the rehotric of so-called republican Pro-gun candiates, you're nothing more than a tool for them. How many of them have authoered or supported a TRUE pro-gun, no compromise bill?
Name them.
They can say they're pro-gun, and they may toss gun owners a bone once in a while on slam dunk legislation that isn't too harmful to gun owners, but do you seriously think that most Republicans have VOTED and CONDUCTED themselves as pro-gun? And do you really think for a minute that the lot of them wouldn't sell the issue right out from under you if it wasn't considered mandatory for them to APPEAR pro-gun as a Republican?
Most of them are no better or worse than Rudy, Romney, McCain, Bush, Bloomberg and the like. At least the Democrats are honest about it, if the Republicans were even half as pro-gun as the cheerleaders want us to believe, we'd have actually made some significant progresss under a Republican-controlled government. We really didn't make much on a national level at all. And as you get more local, the differences between Republicans and Democrats in regards to most gun control issues in many states begin to blur...even moreso when it comes to the actual constituents (of whom I am speaking).