McCain Bashes Rudy On Gun Control At The NRA
John McCain will blast Rudy Giuliani before the National Rifle Association today, taking on Rudy for the lawsuit that he helped file with New York City "to bankrupt our great gun manufacturers."
"My friends, gun owners are not extremists; you are the core of modern America," McCain will say according to 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."
Late Update: McCain's speech is actually today, not yesterday.
Comments (3)
jmegill wrote on September 21, 2007 12:56 PM:Giuliani had NYC sue the gun industry. Here is the video from the press conference:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5DxwzEXHQ
Giuliani defends the lawsuit against the gun industry on his radio program. The gun industry was "overproducing guns". Here is the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhe38wJ86Do
phil james wrote on September 21, 2007 1:08 PM:Yesterday it was his egregious error about whether Congress had the right to make rules governing the armed forces. Since the second amendment is clearly written to guarantee states the right to keep a well-armed militia, and says nothing about an individual's right to carry, once again McCain is inventing his own Constitution. NRA and its right-wing enablers need to start reading up on the actual Constitution rather than inventing their own on the fly to serve their ends.
Mike Warren wrote on November 29, 2007 8:52 AM:I disagree with this. To me the 2nd Ammendment clearly guarantees my right to keep and bear arms. Bear meaning carry. It was a no-brainer for people when the constitution was written, nearly everyone already owned guns. What they did outlaw was criminals, as we should today, not further limit the rights of law-abiding citizens.
