Speaking of Giuliani
McCain gets some ribbing of him on gun issues:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain lobbed a thinly veiled attack at fellow rival Rudy Giuliani, describing the former mayor’s “devious” attempt with a lawsuit “to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers.”
Giuliani said he preferred to focus on the lion’s share of issues on which he and the National Rifle Association agree.
Sen. McCain, R-Ariz., and the former New York mayor are among several officials speaking Friday at a National Rifle Association conference.
In his prepared speech, McCain refers to a lawsuit by Giuliani and other mayors against the gun industry, to Giuliani’s shifting Second Amendment position and to Giuliani’s use of the term “extremists” in relation to the NRA.
“My friends, gun owners are not extremists; you are the core of modern America,” McCain said in the prepared remarks. “The Second Amendment is unique in the world and at the core of our constitutional freedoms. It guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms. To argue anything else is to reject the clear meaning of our founding fathers.
“But the clear meaning of the Second Amendment has not stopped those who want to punish firearms owners – and those who make and sell firearms – for the actions of criminals,” McCain said.
He mentioned “a particularly devious effort to use lawsuits to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers.”
“A number of big-city mayors decided it was more important to blame the manufacturers of a legal product than it was to control crime in their own cities,” McCain said.
Meanwhile, McCain on guns.
Update: Talk is cheap.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Rudy, flippity floppity.
Rudy is not the worst case scenario, he is the last case scenario.
Let’s make it easier on ourselves, if Rudy doesn’t win the Primary, we won’t have to face the Rudy or Hillary choice. BTW, Ron Paul is not the solution in the Primary.
September 22nd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
I’ve been following Presidential electons since I was in junior high school, beginning with the 1968 election and, with the exception of Fred Thompson, the bunch of hopefuls for ’08 on both sides of the aisle are the sorriest pack of losers I’ve ever seen!
You could grab people out of a police line up to replace them and it would’nt be any different. Hell, it might even be an improvement!
September 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
McCain is a lot of talk. Ever since he appeared in TV ads for SAFER Colorado (Tom Mauser’s group), speaking in favor of passing Amendment 22, which requires background checks for all gun purchases at gun shows, he’s been on my shit list. Yep, it’s in our state consitution now.