Wrong, Bill

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Former President Bill Clinton has advice for Obama on how to deal with the gun issue:

“President Barack Obama should not bother trying to pass gun-control legislation because the issue is partly cultural and Obama is from an urban area, former President Bill Clinton said Thursday … The former president said Obama is from Chicago and “he was in the state Senate from the most liberal district in Chicago.”  Clinton said he was able to sign the 1993 Brady handgun law, which mandated federal background checks for gun buyers, because he was from Arkansas, had grown up among hunters and had hunted in his youth.  “I knew what to do,” Clinton said. “They couldn’t turn me into some freak, and I went after them.” …”

Bullshit.  Clinton had a big majority in Congress, just like Obama started with, and used it to push through unpopular programs (Brady and the AWB), just like Obama did (ObamaCare and Porkulus), and the result was scores of Democrats getting booted out of office in ’94, and again in ’08.  That is the real reason Obama hasn’t been going after gun owners: he learned from Clinton’s mistake not to mess with gun owners.  He did not learn not to push other wildly unpopular ideas on the American people.

Bill Clinton has a admitted previously that his gun control agenda cost the Democrats the House in ’94 and Al Gore the presidency in 2000.  There’s no need for him to say stuff like this.

Shoring up his base

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Roy McDonald was one of the handful of Republican Senators to vote in favor of gay marriage last year, a move that did not make him any friends especially after his campaign contributions were examined.

Facing a primary fight in a new district, Capitol Confidential reports on a full color mailing his campaign has done to the new district in hopes of shoring up his support among gun owners:

“… Complete with a picture of the senator as a young man on a hunting trip with his dad, the piece notes McDonald’s pro-sportsman votes as well as his opposition to micro-stamping … The letter also quotes McDonald as referring to moves for more gun laws as “misguided liberal interests” …”

Bad move Mitt

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The Times reports that Mitt Romney meet with Mayor Bloomberg:

“… On Tuesday, Mitt Romney had a private breakfast with Mr. Bloomberg at the headquarters of the mayor’s philanthropic foundation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side … Over coffee and juice, the two discussed several staples of Mr. Bloomberg’s agenda in Washington over the last decade: the economy, immigration, education and even gun control (a topic on which the two man are not entirely on the same page) …”

I would like to know whose dumb idea it was to have Romney sit down with Bloomberg.  The man brings nothing positive to the table.

“… His imprimatur could be useful to either candidates, conveying the approval of a businessman known for his common-sense and nonpartisan governing style …”

LOL!  Only the New York Times believes that.  The rest of America, when they think of Bloomberg (if they think of him at all), they think of an arrogant, statist control freak from a liberal la-la land.  This was not a good move for Romney.

Mandatory storage warning

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Brian Kolb sent out an e-mail alert yesterday via the Assembly Minority Sportsmen’s Caucus list warning about the mandatory firearms storage bill A-3292 being on the Assembly calendar.

The bill itself isn’t new, going back like 20 years, nor is its placement on the calendar a surprise.  What is new is that I believe this is the first time any state legislator made the effort to publicly warn the gun community ahead of time that a bad bill was under consideration.  It is a small, but significant step forward for our side.

He’s here to connect the dots

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Since Dan Gross took over as head of the Brady Campaign I haven’t heard that much from him.  Here is the first television interview I’ve seen of him on the leftist media outlet Current TV (which is owned by Al Gore.)

Exposing the gun control FAIL

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Despite the fact that yesterday’s gun control rally was sparsely attended and didn’t seem to generate much attention outside of this report from the Albany Fox affiliate, I did feel the need to send out a press release on it:

The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association calls yesterday’s gun control rally inside the Legislative Office Building a total farce. Unable to demonstrate any sort of public support for their proposals, antigun legislators and New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, held a dog-and-pony show in the Well of the state legislative office building for a handful of people who were bused in from New York City.

Addressing scores of vacant seats in an almost empty hall, legislators lined up to speak to the couple of dozen or so people who had skipped school in order to be there, and reiterated their support for the same, failed gun control policies they have been promoting for years to an increasingly skeptical public.

By contrast, the rally sponsored by NYSRPA on March 20 attracted several thousand attendees from all across the state. Those concerned citizens gave up time from their families and their jobs to travel to Albany at their own expense to demonstrate their support for their civil rights.

“It is crystal clear where the public stands on the issue of gun rights in New York,” said President Tom King. “They stand with NYSRPA and the NRA! It is high time for legislators to stop pretending and pandering to fringe elements pushing their anti-civil rights agenda in Albany.”

Antigun turnout FAIL

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Last month a couple thousand people from all over the state came to Albany to lobby for gun rights.  Today New Yorkers Against Gun Violence had their lobby day.  As you can tell by this shot looking down into the Well, they managed to get a couple dozen people to show up and those had to be bused in from the City.

Romney takes New York

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To the surprise of no-one, Mitt Romney won all of the delegates in yesterday’s primary.  With Newt Gingrich hinting that he will drop out of the race soon, talk has shifted to who might be Romney’s running mate.

VSSA notices that Governor Bob McDonnell appears to be trying to raise his profile.  NRA rated him an A when he ran for Governor back in ’09.

Bloomberg endorsement

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New York magazine asks, “How Much Would a Bloomberg Endorsement Even Help Romney?“:

“The Romney campaign is hoping that early backer John McCain can convince his good friend Michael Bloomberg to cough up an endorsement for the presumed Republican presidential nominee …”

Why?  Bloomberg is the last person Romney needs to associate with.  He’s a uber antigun, nanny-state, control freak.

As good as it gets

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Billionaire John Catsimatidis has often been mentioned as a possible Republican candidate for New York City Mayor.  It’s common knowledge he carries a gun (because a prerequisite for obtaining an unrestricted NYC pistol license is to be filthy rich and politically connected.)  Gothamist interviewed him and he makes some statements about gun ownership:

“… I believe that law-abiding, mentally healthy citizens—after a waiting time and a real test of abilities and a real test of everything, with no bad history in their background—should have the right to bear arms … I think that “Stand Your Ground” laws need a lot of modification.  I had a problem in one of my homes where I had a break-in at two o’clock in the morning.  I didn’t have my gun with me and if I did, I could have protected my family and I would have probably blown the guy’s head off. Look, at the time it happened, my daughter was 17 years old, my son was 14 years old and one has to protect his family.  If somebody breaks into your home and you don’t know what their intent is, one should have the right to have a gun in their home and protect their family …”

This isn’t much but probably as good as we’d get out a candidate.  He’s way better than Ray Kelly whose name is being floated by some Republicans.