xposting from Video and MultiMedia: The ED Show - Ryan slips up on gun law talking point

[Tuesday Afternoon]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101765907

Thanks Galraedia

[spin]

1. In reality Romney is far more likely than Obama ...

to impose stronger gun control laws such as another assault weapons ban.

The shape shifter has a mixed history on supporting RKBA. Right now he is trying to be a "true" conservative but his record shows he has little understanding of the gun culture in our nation.

Romney’s Flip-Flops on Gun Control Over the Years
by Jesse Singal Jul 25, 2012 4:45 AM EDT
As he has on so many other issues, Mitt Romney has executed a major flip-flop on gun rights—and told some mistruths along the way. Jesse Singal takes us through Romney’s gun past.

Of course, President Obama’s views on gun control have “evolved” too. But more so than perhaps any of the many issues on which Romney’s views have changed, Mitt’s position on gun control reveals him at his Mitt-iest—pandering, carefully calibrating, and, in two cases at least, outright lying.

For example, the hunting claim. As his campaign quickly acknowledged, Romney had not been a lifetime hunter. In fact, he had hunted just twice: during a rabbit-hunting trip in Idaho when he was 15, and at a Georgia quail hunt organized during the Republican Governors Association in 2006. (Romney further stated that he had hunted “varmints” on multiple occasions.)

Then, in January 2007, on a conservative podcast called “The Glenn and Helen Show,” Romney said, “I have a gun of my own. I go hunting myself. I'm a member of the NRA and believe firmly in the right to bear arms.”

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But Romney did not have a gun, as he acknowledged to inquiring reporters two days later. He was, technically, a member of the NRA—he had joined six months prior, paying for a lifetime membership. He admitted it was a calculated move. “I’m after the NRA’s endorsement,” he told an audience in Derry, N.H. “I’m not sure they’ll give it to me. I hope they will. I also joined because if I’m going to ask for their endorsement, they’re going to ask for mine.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/25/romney-s-flip-flops-on-gun-control-over-the-years.html

It is impossible to know what Romney truly stands for as he is an enigma.

[gejohnston]

2. How many pearl clutchers

freaked when Gov Schweitzer said "I own a bunch of guns, so do you Ed" and "if you want that as a reason to go out and buy a new gun, go for it."