Yet Another AWB Article
From The Hill. The first thing I noticed was a picture, with a caption that says “Sen. John Kerry’s campaign is running television commercials showing him hunting.” The picture, however, shows John Kerry at a shooting range. Ok, no big deal, but it just makes me roll my eyes.
The title of the article is “Guns split the Kerry campaign,” and it discusses how the Kerry campaign hasn’t really addressed the issue of gun control. He doesn’t mention it in his speeches, and it’s not in the “issues” section of his website. He voted for the ban-extension amendment earlier this year, of course, and the NRA says he “has voted consistently against gun owners.” So what’s the deal?
What’s really interesting to me are the very last two paragraphs:
The bill itself is not controversial, [some gun grabbers] said, because even gun owners favor its extension. Sixty-four percent of gun-owning households and half of the NRA members polled were in favor of extending the ban, according to a recent poll conducted by the Annenberg Election Survey.
But many of the weapons included in that poll, Uzis and AK-47s among them, have been illegal since 1981, [the NRA guy] said. [emphasis added]
Imagine that.
