Fact Checking the Fact Checker
Tuesday, October 7, 2008; Page A20
The Post's Sept. 24 "Fact Checker" on NRA advertisements about Sen. Barack Obama's gun record itself disregarded the facts ["NRA Ads Are Off Target About Obama and Guns"].
The Post claimed that Mr. Obama only wanted to tax "certain types" of guns in 1999. But the sentence in the 1999 article cited in the ad said, "Obama is also seeking to increase the federal taxes by 500 percent on the sale of . . . ammunition . . . ."
The Post also claimed that an amendment Mr. Obama voted for in 2005 would not have banned hunting rifle ammunition, just because the amendment's sponsor, Sen. Edward Kennedy, said it wouldn't. But while pushing the same proposal in 2004, Mr. Kennedy denounced the .30-30 Winchester. Though the .30-30 has been one of the most popular hunting rifle cartridges for 113 years, Mr. Kennedy found it "outrageous and unconscionable that such ammunition continues to be sold in the United States of America."
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad