Senators, from left, Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry and Edward Kennedy celebrating the vote in favor of reenactment of the Clinton Gun Ban 3/02/04.
John Kerry and the Second Amendment
Senators, from left, Charles Schumer,
Dianne Feinstein, John Kerry and
Edward Kennedy celebrating the vote in favor of reenactment of the Clinton Gun Ban 3/02/04.
With friends like these, would you trust John Kerry to protect your Second Amendment rights?
When it comes to the right to keep and bear arms, there seems to be at least two John Kerry’s - the one that talks and the one that walks.
Like most anti-gun politicians across the nation, Democrat Presidential Candidate John Kerry is shelving his anti-gun rhetoric and suddenly claiming he supports the Second Amendment and believes hunting is the greatest of American pastimes. It's a politically calculated effort to mislead gun owners, lull us into complacency and dilute the sportsmen vote. Here is a question gun owners should ask John Kerry - Why should the millions of NRA members in America vote for you when you have said, "I don't want to be the candidate of NRA in this country?"
Democrat John Kerry found his new appreciation for the Second Amendment because, "Democrats remember the Million Mom March hurt them at the ballot box. The last thing many of them want is another hootenanny regarding guns..."
Mr. Kerry has been busy posing for the media shooting guns... It is an insult to our intelligence to act as if posing with guns is as significant as how the senator voted on gun control laws during his 16 years in Congress.(3/2/04, Thomas Sowell, Political Malpractice, Washington Times, 7/13/04) Kerry voted for the Kennedy ammunition ban amendment which, if enacted, would have banned many hunting rounds including the popular Winchester .30-.30. (3/2/04, S.AMDT.2619 to S.1805, Vote 28) "His act isn't likely to win many converts in the South, for example, and his decision to fly back to Washington to slap gun owners last week will be remembered in what have come to be known as the "red" states more than his participation in that pheasant hunt in Iowa a few months ago."(3/9/04 The Hill) "He (Kerry)...last week left the campaign trail for the Capitol to cast a series of antigun votes."(3/8/04 Why Do Dems Lose in the South? The Wall Street Journal) "Kerry, Daschle, Feinstein and other Democrats, and their cheerleaders in the press, think that by killing the gun lawsuit protection bill after loading it with anti-gun amendments, they won something. Perhaps, but in so doing, they sacrificed any credibility they may have built with gun owners over the past couple of years."(3/5/04 The Atlanta Journal - Constitution) "[t]here is a gap between America's Field & Stream gun owners and the NRA's Soldier of Fortune leaders..."(John Kerry on Floor of Senate 3/2/04 urging reenactment of the Clinton Gun Ban) "Kerry's position on gun control is a lot like most of his positions — he is and he isn't. He has called gun owners special interests in an effort to taint the NRA with the same kind of malodorous quality Democrats have cheerily ascribed to Halliburton."(03/04/04 The Seattle Times - Gun-shy Democrats still can't shoot straight) "Despite ridiculous rhetoric about being a supporter of the Second Amendment, Kerry`s voting record shows that his perennial F-rating from NRA`s Political Victory Fund is well deserved. The Massachusetts Senator, who has been AWOL from Washington for months while he`s been running for President, returned to Washington on Tuesday, and spoke in favor of, and then voted for, the Feinstein (Clinton Gun Ban) Amendment. Senator Kerry also voted for the McCain-Reed gun show amendment. These were the first votes Kerry had cast this year."(3/5/04 NRA-ILA Grassroots Alert) "Kerry … supported the gun ban legislation. Feinstein revealed perhaps more than she should have when she admitted, ‘We would have lost without them (Kerry and Edwards). They were vital.’"(3/5/04 The Atlanta Journal - Constitution) "If we don't act today to continue the ban on these deadly weapons, then our families in America, our police officers in America, are more threatened than they ought to be," Mr. Kerry said in remarks shortly before the vote.(3/02/04 New York Times report about Senate floor debate on reenactment of the Clinton Gun Ban) "Kerry has placed the gun issue ... firmly back into the presidential debate" (3/3/04 Senate Leaders Scuttle Gun Bill Over Changes, New York Times) "I've fought the NRA from Day One..." Kerry told supporters in McKinney's machinery shed. (11/01/2003 Kerry criticizes Dean's gun views, The Des Moines Register) Presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry, he said, "is certainly no friend of the Second Amendment."(04/06/2004 Wayne LaPierre quoted in the Washington, PA Observer-Reporter article Pittsburgh to host NRA convention ) " Voted with the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Handgun Control, Inc. (now known as the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence) 100 percent of the time."(11/17/03 Votes and Quotes CNSNews.com Special Feature ) "I rise to lend my support to… the organizers and marchers of the Million Mom March and urge the juvenile justice conference to include the Senate-passed gun control measures in its report…"(
— Sen. John Kerry, Congressional Record,
May 17, 2000) " John Kerry has earned an F rating from Gun Owners of America and the NRA for his voting record." (11/17/03 Votes and Quotes CNSNews.com Special Feature ) "I don't want to be the candidate of the NRA in this country. I don't think the Democratic Party should be the candidacy of the NRA."
(11/4/03, Democratic Presidential Debate in Boston) " Opposes the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (H.R. 1036 / S. 659), which grants gun manufacturers, distributors and dealers immunity from lawsuits. " (11/17/03,
Votes and Quotes CNSNews.com Special Feature ) Voted for a Senate Amendment expressing the sense of the Senate supporting the Million Mom March.
(5/17/00 S.AMDT. 3148 to S.2521, Vote 104) " Voted in favor of a five-day waiting period on handgun purchases (H.R. 1025 / S. 414) in 1993. " (11/17/03, Votes and Quotes CNSNews.com Special Feature) " We cannot afford to be a party that reads the wrong lessons from the last elections. Shame on us if we believe that we have to retreat from our principles and suddenly that something like gun safety is not important in America. I come here to tell you, we can't go out and win elections by throwing out our principles. I won't do it. " (10/4/2003, Democratic National Committee Fall Meeting) John Kerry supports legislation to end gun shows as we know them. (12/5/2003, CNS News) " The John Kerry website says the candidate opposes the NRA's 'divisive agenda'. " (12/5/2003, CNS News ) Don’t be fooled by a slick politician who is trying to camouflage himself as a supporter of the Second Amendment. Defend Firearms. Defeat Kerry. This web
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