A different view

Granny Grab Your Gun

Something I thought I'd never live to see is the NRA supporting Democrats. Yet it seems the Bush administration has sunk so low that even the NRA is aligned against him. Or at least thinking about it.

According the the Washington Post article the reason is two fold.

First is the issue of access to hunting and fishing lands. The Bush administration has been opening huge tracks of prime game areas to oil and gas drilling companies. They've rolled back the Clinton era roadless areas and allowed companies in despite the arguments against it from governors, game and fish agency managers, and many hunting and fishing groups.

The second is that the Democrats aren't pushing gun control, with neither Pelosi or Hoyer mentioning any plans on bringing up gun control.

The Democrats trying to take guns from the ownership of rural dwellers has never made sense. Trying to control illegal sales of guns in cities may make sense, but hunting is an ingrained part of the American life in the country and backroads of the US.

The Democrats have let the Republicans control the message on issues like gun control and abortion. The Democrats have slowly been changing their message, led by Howard Dean.

As he says, no one is for abortion. No one wants there ever to be another abortion. The difference is in how you deal with it.

And we shouldn't be against guns, just the use of guns in violent crimes. Canada, where guns are easily available, has far less gun related violence. The answer is in the culture, not in the tool.

posted by don1one @ 12:46 AM