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Edwards's Bid for Favor Of Hunters Draws Fire

Submitted by Harry Schell, Oct 26, 2007 19:56

Edwards is a fake in most every sense of the word.

This latest posture is an attempt to get protective coloration and avoid alerting anyone caring about their human right to self-defense, which Edwards would throw away in a second if he thought it would get him toys to play with on a national scale (i.e., the Presidency).

The root of the 2nd Amendment is not guns, but that human right, so absent in countries who disarm people and then kill them. Germany, Russia, China...the list goes on and on and socialist liberals never admit the failure of their proscriptions. Part of this failure is calculation: armed citizens are much harder to control.

There is no security for citizens in handing the state a monopoly on guns.

On a good day, when seconds count, the police are just minutes away.

Look at the UK if you want to see the results of invasive gun controls. Terror and oppression don't have to come from government all the time. Armed criminals kill, rob, maim and terrorize unarmed citizens with great regularity. Any politician disarming you in the name of crime control is a liar, egomainiac or both.

It is also a certainty that worthies like Michael Bloomberg and Dianne Feinstein, if they are wrong about the promised crime declines from their policies, will not pay the price. They have millions of dollars of personal wealth to hire all the armed security they could want, in addition to what taxpayers provide for them. These elitist snobs will not be doing the bleeding.

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Oct 30, 2007 11:17

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Oct 30, 2007 09:09

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Brennan Browne

Oct 28, 2007 17:13

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dennis

Oct 28, 2007 12:14

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Harry Schell

Oct 26, 2007 19:56

What a joke! All of a sudden Pretty Boy Edwards and the other Democrats try to cozy up to gun... [MORE]

Bill

Oct 26, 2007 17:49

As Democrats try to change their spots to apease people who actually believe that the Constitution is supposed to mean... [MORE]

arthur

Oct 26, 2007 11:27

As a North Carolina resident while The Breck Boy was a Senator, I can tell you that he cares not... [MORE]

Mack Silver

Oct 26, 2007 09:28

NC is one of the only states that still have Jim Crow styled laws on the books where NICS is... [MORE]

9mm Mom

Oct 26, 2007 04:48

Mr Edwards should stick to those subjects about which he has some slight understanding! Mr Richardson has Iron in his... [MORE]

William G Martin

Oct 25, 2007 21:01

that dog simply don't hunt! Just look at everyones voting record in the Senate. That tells you all you need... [MORE]

NRA1975

Oct 25, 2007 19:36

John Edwards comments on the Second Amendment are typical for a personal injury lawyer; obscure the facts in the hopes... [MORE]

Dennis Hayward

Oct 25, 2007 14:33

We are stuck with a presidential election where there is not even one candidate that supports the second amendment or... [MORE]

Charles P

Oct 25, 2007 13:43

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fsilber

Oct 25, 2007 13:08

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