From: Kevin Langston <langston@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: position of pres. candidates
Followup-To: talk.politics.guns
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Date: Thu, 08 Oct 1992 13:34:10 GMT
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In article <sday.718493513@kirin> sday@bbn.com (Sherry Day) writes:
>
>Hi,  I have some questions about how the presidential candidates
>feel about gun control and what have they done about their beliefs,
>ie. support HCI, etc.
>
>Also, I read on this net that Clinton wanted to have a "secret police"
>Could someone please specify when he said this and to whom.

    I believe he was referring to a national police force made up of
    100,000 ex-soldiers. I don't who or where he first brought it up.
    In Clinton-ese, this means a $$ savings from a shrinking military
    to one audience, and an inflated police budget to another. The
    legendary political double-whammy.

    A more logical use of those salaries would be to reduce the number
    of police needed by keeping the crooks off the streets once they're
    captured. The police wouldn't have nearly as much to do if they didn't
    have to keep chasing the same set of bad guys...

>I work
>with someone who doesn't think this is true (also doesn't believe
>that Clinton is for gun control).  Her comment was "He lived in
>Nebraska where there are alot of hunters, how could he want gun
>control?"

    Well, Clinton himself has said he's not for gun control. He "only"
    wants to ban some ugly guns and make everyone wait 'X' days before
    being allowed to exercise an explicitly enumerated right which
    can't be infringed upon.
    
    He told the NRA that he vetoed the pre-emption bill because he thought
    they were against it. Later, to a slightly different audience, he 
    claimed to have stood up to the NRA by vetoing their bill.

    He claims to be a hunter, but according to the Arkansas bureau
    responsible for licensing hunters, the only Bill Clinton of Little
    Rock with a license isn't running for office. So the slick one
    is either a poacher or a liar. 

    If he says he's not for gun control, how could he possibly be?

    Simple, he's the candidate of change. Ha takes one position before one
    audience, and changes to the opposite position for another audience.
 
>I would appreciate any replies. Is it me, am I the only one who is 
>confused by what the candidates are saying.  I hear one thing then
>the opposite a few days later.  I hope I am not the only one that
>feels like a mushroom.

    Heh, heh, heh. Well, if I had to say something nice about the major
    candidates, it would be that they can sure handle a shovel...
 
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