John Kerry pretending to be a champion of Second Amendment rights has always been laughable and hasn't worked in the least. He may assume that all gun owners and hunters are rubes, but we know a decoy from the real thing when we see them. Dressing up like a hunter and cavorting for the cameras in blaze orange doesn't wipe away the stain on 20 years of voting for every gun control bill that came along.
Kimberly Strassell, on OpinionJournal.com, is glad that Kerry has finally given up pretending to be a friend of hunters and gun owners. She repeats one of my favorite quotes of the election season (other than Howard Dean saying that Job was his favorite book in the New Testament)...
Take, for instance, a July interview in which he was asked what kind of hunting he preferred. Here was our Nantucket Natty Bumppo's response: "Probably I'd have to say deer. . . . I go out with my trusty 12-gauge double-barrel, crawl around on my stomach."
What she fails to point out, as have most commentators, is that while crawling on your stomach is NOT how you hunt deer, more importantly NO ONE hunts deer with a "12-gauge double barrel", trusty or not. True, so states require you to use a shotgun when hunting deer but in those states almost everyone uses a pump or semi-auto. I don't know that I have ever seen a double-barrelled shotgun that has rifling for shooting slugs. I know of NO ONE that shoots deer with a "12-gauge double-barrel", trusty or otherwise.
John, you aren't fooling anyone. Embrace your east coast liberalism. It is probably better to lose honestly for what you are than dishonestly pretending to be something you are not.
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