Reply #18: My stand on Boxer is an enigma even to myself. I applauded her... [View All]

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infinitely courageous refusal to allow the 2004 elections to go unchallenged, and I applaud many of her other stances as well, but I am appalled by the absolutist venom of her relentless opposition to the private ownership of firearms.

Boxer's "Women Against Guns" organization of the 1980s and early 1990s was a major contributor to the merger of feminism with the cause of forcible disarmament -- the merger that transformed the anti-gun movement from a small and mostly powerless band of fringe lunatics into a major (and singularly tyrannical) force in U.S. politics.

So I remain of two minds about Boxer -- especially since one of my personal slogans is "Real Leftists Own Guns."

But if Boxer would repudiate her position that civilians should not be allowed firearms under any circumstances -- that only soldiers, cops and secret police should be allowed them -- I would unabashedly support her for any office she chose to seek.