Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Anti-Gun

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Arnold Schwarzenegger Is Anti-Gun

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Wednesday, October 1, 2003


Noted Second Amendment author and scholar David Kopel makes clear in
a recent article that state Senator Tom McClintock is the ONLY major
candidate for governor who deserves the support of gun owners.

"Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent appearance on the Sean Hannity Show
regarding gun control suggests that he is amazingly ignorant of
current gun laws in California," Kopel wrote in National Review
Online.

Schwarzenegger told Hannity that he supports the Brady law and the
federal ban on semiautomatic firearms, but California already has
state laws that are far more restrictive than federal law.

"While the federal ban on so-called 'assault weapons' is scheduled
to sunset in September 2004, the much more severe California
prohibition has no sunset date," Kopel wrote.

Kopel also explains that Schwarzenegger's support for the Brady law
is uninformed because that measure "never affected California gun
sales, because the state's gun laws were more restrictive than the
requirements of the 1993 Brady Bill."

Further, Schwarzenegger indicated that he "would like to close the
loophole on the gun shows." We all know that the entire concept of
a gun show loophole is fiction to begin with -- but even if you
accept the gun grabbers' definition of "loophole," there isn't one
in California! All legal gun sales already go through an FFL in
California, including those made at gun shows.

One wonders whether Arnold is running as a Republican for Governor
of California, or as a Democrat for President of the United States.
(Of course, he is not eligible to become President, but maybe he's
ignorant of that fact, as well.)

In contrast to the anti-gun Schwarzenegger, Kopel says of
McClintock: "The only serious candidate in the California governor's
race who supports Second Amendment rights is State Senator Tom
McClintock."

Please remember to vote for pro-gun Tom McClintock for Governor.

[Note: the entire Kopel article can be found at
http://www.nationalreview.com/kopel/kopel200309300910.asp and it
makes a very compelling case.]

 

[Quartus]

Old news, but I fully expect someone to post their surprise at this, because, after all, he uses guns in his reeeely cooool movies!

 

[bountyhunter]

Arnold is amazingly ignorant of virtually every subject you could name. he is a smart businessman when it comes to marketing himself, but a brain surgeon he is not.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Never trust a R.I.N.O.

 

[444]

No .... Crap

 

[Dan from MI]

Tom MCClintock for Governor!!!!

http://www.helptom.com

 

[4v50 Gary]

What Dan says. I voted yesterday.

 

[10-Ring]

No big surprise about Arnold's stance on social issues

 

[Bill Hook]

He's a good Nazi, then.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98982,00.html



All those in favor of electing Adolf Schwarzenegger Governor, raise your right hand.

 

[Sergeant Bob]

Bill Hook

He's a good Nazi, then.

That's a pretty serious allegation there. Before you call someone a Nazi , you should at least be sure you know the whole story, not just what comes out of the Davis/ Demo propoganda machine.

New York Times

In the portion of the interview read over the phone and later distributed by the campaign, Mr. Schwarzenegger said: "In many ways I admired people — It depends for what. I admired Hitler for instance because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. And I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for his way of getting to the people and so on. But I didn't admire him for what he did with it. It is very hard to say who I admired and who are my heroes. And I admired basically people who are powerful people, like Kennedy. Who people listen to and just wait until he comes out with telling them what to do. People like that I admire a lot."

Mr. Butler said the book proposal had erroneously dropped a few words from a quotation attributed to Mr. Schwarzenegger. According to Mr. Butler's reading of the transcript, Mr. Schwarzenegger followed his comments about Hitler's public speaking by adding, "But I didn't admire him for what he did with it." He did not say, "I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it," as he was quoted in the book proposal and in early editions of The Times.

Mr. Butler said he could not explain the inaccuracy. "I am amazed that something like that escaped me."

Mr. Butler sold the book proposal to St. Martin's Press for about $500,000 but never completed the book. He said this week that he decided against it on further reflection. But executives at St. Martin's said that in early 2001 he sought unsuccessfully to dissuade them from canceling the project and demanding return of the advance.

 

[Bill Hook]

I was thinking more about his support for gun control rather than his praise for Hitler.

To be honest, Hitler does deserve some admiration from rising to the very top from the very bottom. That's about as far as it goes, though, since we all know what he did with his power once he overcame his struggle to achieve it. Historians have made some points that Hitler would've been the greatest leader of German speaking peoples if he had died in 1938, since he had united nearly all of them in a single political entity.