If Dean is pro-gun then I must be pro-PETA
From the WaPo:
Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.) scolded Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean for his friendly relations with the National Rifle Association during a Capitol Hill rally last week to drum up support for renewal — and strengthening — of the federal ban on assault weapons.
While other speakers stuck to the subject of assault weapons, Kennedy assailed Dean, saying he was “saddened” that one of his party’s leading presidential candidates is “pro-NRA.” He suggested that Dean has “compromised his principles” as a physician by opposing stronger federal gun controls.
Dean has stated he supports the AW ban, he is therefore not pro-gun enough. Heck, I’d vote for Dean if he opposed the ban. Dean, a Vermont Democrat, is understandably pro-gun. That or maybe he learned the lesson from the 1994 ban in which many Democrats were not re-elected as a result of voting for the ban.
October 6th, 2003 at 10:36 am
Amazing, that barely ten years hence, the Democrats haven’t learned the lesson that sent them packing into minority status.
October 6th, 2003 at 12:47 pm
Here’s a piece about Dean and guns.
October 8th, 2003 at 11:05 pm
Manish: if that’s what Dean feels about guns, I have a grudging respect for him. (I’m pro-gun, personally.) Rural areas need guns much worse than urban areas. Some rural areas don’t have so much as a single constable, so each family has to fend for themselves.
Dean still isn’t someone I’d vote for, though, just based on his opposition to the war in Iraq.