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http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/5/14/172817
Wednesday May 14, 2003; 5:21 p.m. EDT
Gun Controller Schumer Has Armed Bodyguard
The Senate's leading gun control advocate, Senator Charles Schumer - who's currently pressuring the White House to extend the 1994 assault weapons ban - travels with an armed bodyguard, NewsMax.com has learned.
Questions arose Wednesday morning about the gun opponent's security arrangements after the New York Post's Cindy Adams mentioned in her column that Schumer appeared at a recent event with a bodyguard in tow.
A quick call to Schumer's office confirmed that the man guarding the Senate's number one gun controller was packing heat.
"He's a New York police detective," the Senator's spokesman revealed to NewsMax. When asked whether Schumer's detective was indeed armed, the spokesman replied, "I would imagine so."
Sensing a public relations problem in the making, the Senator's spokesman explained that his boss "believes in the second amendment and the right to bear arms."
"So I don't think there's anything inconsistent about it," he insisted.
In recent days Sen. Schumer has mounted a campaign to get the White House to actively press Republicans in Congress to back an extension of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which he sponsored.
"We hope the president will not just say he supports the ban but will work to get it passed," the New York Democrat told reporters last week, adding, "This will be a good measure of the compassion in his compassionate conservatism."
No doubt the good Senator's armed bodyguard agrees.
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/5/14/172817
Wednesday May 14, 2003; 5:21 p.m. EDT
Gun Controller Schumer Has Armed Bodyguard
The Senate's leading gun control advocate, Senator Charles Schumer - who's currently pressuring the White House to extend the 1994 assault weapons ban - travels with an armed bodyguard, NewsMax.com has learned.
Questions arose Wednesday morning about the gun opponent's security arrangements after the New York Post's Cindy Adams mentioned in her column that Schumer appeared at a recent event with a bodyguard in tow.
A quick call to Schumer's office confirmed that the man guarding the Senate's number one gun controller was packing heat.
"He's a New York police detective," the Senator's spokesman revealed to NewsMax. When asked whether Schumer's detective was indeed armed, the spokesman replied, "I would imagine so."
Sensing a public relations problem in the making, the Senator's spokesman explained that his boss "believes in the second amendment and the right to bear arms."
"So I don't think there's anything inconsistent about it," he insisted.
In recent days Sen. Schumer has mounted a campaign to get the White House to actively press Republicans in Congress to back an extension of the 1994 assault weapons ban, which he sponsored.
"We hope the president will not just say he supports the ban but will work to get it passed," the New York Democrat told reporters last week, adding, "This will be a good measure of the compassion in his compassionate conservatism."
No doubt the good Senator's armed bodyguard agrees.