AWB on Hannity and Colmes

[DigMe]

Hannity never touches the AWB. I'm starting to wonder if he knows anything about it or even if he secretly supports it. I've NEVER heard him say one thing about it. I'm tempted to call him up and try to confront him on that issue.

brad cook

 

[madcowburger]

If you can get a call through to Hannity, more power to you.

You're right not to assume anyone is pro-RKBA just because they're considered "conservative." In a lot of cases, "conservative" means little more than disliking abortion and high taxes. Former Virtue Czar Bill Bennett is susually called a conservative, and he's one of the *most* anti-2nd Amendment rights guys out there.

I seem to recall Hannity saying one time that he owned some sort of handgun, and would use it to defend his home if someone broke in. That's great as far as it goes. But he may be one of those who see no particular problem with someone having a six-shot revolver in the nightstand drawer, but who is not in favor of people carrying guns on them, concealed or openly, in public, and who sure don't think 'civilians" should have "assault weapons," which they think means "machine guns and bazookas," as I have heard Bill O'Reilly say out loud more than once.

Like I said before, about the only things Hannity ever really seems to get excited about are "family"-type issues -- marriage, child-production/child-rearing, and *other* people's sex lives, if any. O'Reilly is much the same, and I just about quit listening to Michael Reagan on the car radio because every time I tune in all he talks about is kids-this and children-that. I don't have any kids, don't want any, and am not very interested in hearing about other people's kids, and am sick and tired of hearing about how more of my freedom needs to be infringed on "for the children."

MCB

 

[aut2no]

Transcript Fox news

website notes text may be edited for clarity (seems some is missing from my recollection of interview , ie "700 guns". some other stuff said in crosstalk also

Romney not truthful here:

"the gun owners' action league backed the legislation that said, "Look, let's protect our citizens from dangerous assault weapons"



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PAT HALPIN, GUEST CO-HOST: Governor, let's talk about AK-47's. The assault weapons ban is set to expire in the middle of September. It seems that Bush is doing nothing about that. The Republican Congress is in concert with this. Tom DeLay and the others want to see that happen, and as a bone to the NRA.

Aren't you concerned that terrorists and Al Qaeda, that terrorists that are here in the United States, if this thing expires, can walk down to the corner gun store and pick up an AK-47 or some other assault weapons, if the Republican Congress doesn't extend the assault weapons ban?

ROMNEY: I don't think for a minute the terrorists were planning on bringing down the government of the United States and bringing down our financial institutions and causing disruption of our nation are worried about picking up a pea shooter. And whether it's a big peashooter like an AK-47 or a smaller one.

HALPIN: So are you in favor of that ban being extended or do you want to see it lapse?

ROMNEY: What they want to do is they want to attack our nation and bring down our government with an aircraft, with a bomb, with biological weapons and something of that nature.

I believe the people should have the right to bear arms, but I don't believe that we have to have assault weapons as part of our personal arsenal.

HALPIN: So you're...

ROMNEY: In my state I just signed a piece of legislation extending the ban on certain assault weapons in our state.

HALPIN: Governor, would you like to see that extended again on the federal level, as well?

ROMNEY: It very well may be. In our state what we did is we got both sides of this issue to come together, because we relaxed a number of things, allowing people who hadn't been able to get weapons in the past to be able to purchase those.

HALPIN: But aren't you concerned about weapons coming in from other states if we don't abolish them nationwide?

ROMNEY: Not in Massachusetts. Yes, Massachusetts has very tough laws. But it's a good balance.

HALPIN: We've got tough laws here in New York, too.

ROMNEY: There are hunters in the NRA and the gun owners' action league backed the legislation that said, "Look, let's protect our citizens from dangerous assault weapons, but let's also make — makes regular weapons more available to our citizens." And we made a compromise that works.

But homeland security is bombs. It's trucks with bombs. It's the kind of thing that, it keeps me awake at night.

HALPIN: I understand that. And you're right. It is about intelligence.