I still support HRC. Smart political move on her part - and if she is smart about it perhaps she will be able to get UBCs passed.

Common sense gun control was included in Kerry's campaign, and, he absolutely did NOT shy away from it when he held a press availability in Iowa.

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Mr. Kerry proved quite the shot. Moments later, he leveled his gun suddenly and squeezed his trigger once more, and another pheasant fell to the ground, this time with an appreciative pack of journalists witnessing the kill.

Bizarre as the juxtaposition seemed, Mr. Kerry said his gun control stance and his marksmanship were quite compatible.

''It's not a mixed message,'' he said. ''I'm just being where I've been all my life.''

''I believe in the Second Amendment in this country,'' Mr. Kerry continued. ''But I don't believe that assault weapons ought to be sold in the streets of America. Never believed it, don't believe it now.''
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/01/us/shotgun-in-hand-kerry-defines-his-gun-control-stance.html

Gun control is common sense.

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There's this from 2008, when she was trying to appeal to "hard working Americans, white Americans":

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/12/clinton-touts-her-experience-with-guns/

VALPARAISO, Indiana (CNN) - Hillary Clinton appealed to Second Amendment supporters on Saturday by hinting that she has some experience of her own pulling triggers.

“I disagree with Sen. Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about trade and immigration simply out of frustration,” she began, referring to the Obama comments on small-town Americans that set off a political tumult on Friday.

She then introduced a fond memory from her youth.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

There's this:

What assurance do you have that she will continue to be for it if she becomes the nominee and her pollsters, focus group gurus, and image consultants tell her that Americans don't favor it?

I subscribe to the "Clean Hands" doctrine

But a Sanders supporter suggesting HRC is bad on guns is like Jonah Hill saying John Goodman is overweight.

My buddy had guns and I didn't even like to be in the room with him when he had them out.


I do think it's interesting the people who arrogate to themselves what stances on the issues are progressive and what stances aren't and what is important and what isn't.

Although extreme gun control measures become the issue du jour every time there is a tragedy like Charleston, I am reasonably confident neither of these candidates is going to do anything drastic as far as the 2nd Amendment is concerned. It just isn't that big of a deal with most Americans.

I'm merely pointing out that Ms Clinton has managed to plant herself firmly on both sides of this issue.