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[Romulus]

"I believe in the Second Amendment in this country," Mr. Kerry continued. "But I don't believe that assault weapons ought to be sold in the streets of America. Never believed it, don't believe it now."

Maybe Kerry ought to read the *od damn Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States:

A Well Regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

The 2d Amend has jack shit to do with pheasant hunting with a $1000 shot gun. All real assault weapons (like bona-fide full-auto AK-47's - not the rifles that merely look like AK-47's), and the owners of those weapons, are registered with BATFE. The only criminal act committed with one of those BATFE-registered weapons was when a NJ SWAT officer flipped out and used his HK-MP5 duty submachine gun to kill his next door neighbor. What more regulation of those assault weapons (of which Kerry must be speaking, or else he is showing is ignorance) is therefore needed to keep them from being misused in "gun violence?"

Edited to add:

As I said in that other thread: I like Kerry, and after listening to him on NPR a few months back I think I agree with more of his positions than any other candidate. But this gun this is killing me -and who knows how many others.