John Kerry Wants to Ban Guns in America.

Kerry has never been against sportsmen or hunting. He has voted against military assault rifles for sure, which are not used for hunting game, but for killing people. From http://www.johnkerry.com/communities/sportsmen/

John Kerry: A Strong Supporter of Sportsmen’s Rights to Hunt and Fish

A Lifelong Hunter and Supports Sportsmen’s Rights
John Kerry is a strong supporter of sportsmen’s rights and is a lifelong hunter having learned the sport at a young age. Kerry, who remains an avid hunter, recently had his enjoyment of hunting described by a newspaper: “John Kerry eats dove. Even better, he shoots them. From behind the stalks of a Southern cornfield, he'll watch them flutter and dart, and fire. ‘You might eat it at a picnic, cold roasted. I love dove. Dove, quail, duck, deer.’ Kerry described how to hunt and gut them, talking as he sliced through a steak at midnight after campaigning all day in Iowa for the Democratic presidential nomination.” [Hartford Courant, 7/9/03; Washington Post, 6/1/03]

Supports the Second Amendment & Will Defend Hunting Rights
John Kerry is a gun owner and he believes in the right to bear arms. During his announcement speech, Kerry emphasized his strong belief in the Second Amendment by saying bluntly: “I’m a hunter and I believe in the Second Amendment.” Additionally, Kerry has said he will work to defend hunting rights. “I enjoy going hunting. I'm prepared to stand up and defend common sense on guns.” [Kerry remarks at Mt. Pleasant, SC 9/2/03; ABC News, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, 11/10/02]

Supports Greater Land Conservation for Hunting and Fishing
In the Senate, John Kerry has worked for greater conservation of land to allow for more hunting and fishing. Kerry cosponsored the “Conservation and Stewardship Act” to provide up to $5 million for land conservation and acquisition including increased space for hunting and fishing. Kerry has also supported the “Northern Forest Stewardship Act” to provide more forest acreage for sporting purposes. Finally, Kerry has voted for greater hunting opportunities on federal land such as the large military installations with designated hunting zones. [106th Congress, S. 2181; 105th Congress, S. 546; 104th Congress, S. 1163; Senate Roll Call vote, 1999 #284


Kerry supports the second amendment and can distinguish between sporting uses of guns from the uncontrolled gun policies of the NRA which have resulted in assault rifles being available to children and criminals. From John Kerry: The Field and Stream Interview

"Yeah, because the NRA has a silly kind of methodology that doesn’t make any sense. I’m a gun owner. I’m a hunter—I’ve been a hunter all my life. But I vote for reasonable things. I mean, I just think the Brady Bill is reasonable. They [the NRA] score that a zero. Having assault weapons reasonably regulated is intelligent. I mean, I’ve never thought about going hunting with an assault weapon of war. If you want to wield one of those, then go join the military.

I think you can protect the rights of sportsmen, protect the rights of people to bear arms. I believe in the Second Amendment. You know, we’ve had these laws on the books for 10 years or more: Nobody has ever tried to take anyone’s guns away. It’s just phoniness, an absolute phoniness to the arguments they make.And I’m never going to vote to take away guns. I never have. I never sponsored anything to suggest that. But at the same time, with the right to own a gun comes responsibility. Everybody who owns a gun knows that. You don’t want them falling into the hands of kids; you don’t want them falling into the hands of criminals.

Every law enforcement agency in the country supported restraints on assault weapons. The NRA, in fact, stands against the law enforcement entities of our country. And I think there is something completely out of whack when that becomes the measurement and you, quote, "get an F" from people fighting law enforcement and who called the ATF jack-booted thugs. I just can’t understand that. George Herbert Walker Bush resigned from the NRA because of that comment about jack-booted thugs.

So I think there is a level of reasonableness here that we have to assert. I am better for sportsmen because I will preserve the environment, I will preserve the roadless rule, I’ll have more thoughtful preservation of wildlife and fishing than George Bush would ever have. He’s busy destroying wetlands critical to spawning grounds. When you start running through the list of things, I’ll tell you, I think my record is much stronger."

 

Yeah, right. You should go join the kook militias in Montana if you are afraid of government tyranny. Or maybe the Branch Davidians. And, incidentally, whenever anybody resorts to insults just because someone disagrees with him, I know that he has exhausted his logic, is incapable of discourse, and can be safely ignored in the future.

 

OK, I'll accept that. You're off the ignore list.

I see the point you are trying to make, but you're way out there in right field. Anarchy in America is really far-fetched, there is no basis to believe that chaos would ensure from terrorists attacks here. They just don't have that much power over us. They can kill a few thousand at a time and it would embarrass us and hurt our pride and make us very angry, but it wouldn't come close to destroying the economic, moral, and political fiber of the country. The Soviets couldn't even have done that and they had 3,000 nuclear warheads to hit us with.

I'm a moderate, by the way, not a liberal, just voting democratic this time around.


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