Harry Tuttle
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Pre written script:
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040914-123037-7051r.htm
Kerry hits Bush for lapse of gun ban
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 14, 2004
_"Let me be very clear. I support the Second Amendment. I am a gun owner. I am a hunter. I've been a hunter since I was a kid. But I'm also, forever, a law-enforcement officer. And I know as a gun owner, as a hunter, I never thought about going hunting with a military assault rifle," Mr. Kerry said.
____Mr. Kerry also said Mr. Bush and congressional Republicans are playing games by blaming each other for the ban lapse.
____"The House says, through Tom DeLay, [the measure] isn't going to get sent to [the president], but if he asks for it we'll send it to him. Well, why didn't you ask?" Mr. Kerry said.
Mr. Kerry himself told a story yesterday illustrating the easy availability of the weapons despite the federal ban.
____He recalled pheasant hunting with a sheriff in Iowa recently. As they were walking through a field, the senator said, the sheriff pointed to a house nearby and said, "We did a drug bust in that house about a week ago. And we came in early in the morning. And the person that they were arresting was asleep, lying in bed. And lying right on the floor, right beside that drug dealer, was an AK-47."
earlier version of the script:
http://www.iptv.org/iowapress/transcripts/3109.cfm
10-24-03
Kerry: GUN SAFETY. GUN SAFETY, YEAH. WELL, I'M A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. I RAN ONE OF THE LARGEST DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICES IN AMERICA, ONE OF THE TEN LARGEST COUNTIES. I'VE WORKED HARD TO DELIVER JUSTICE, PUT PEOPLE BEHIND BARS. AND EVERY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN AMERICA, ALL THE POLICE CHIEFS, ALL OF THE LOCAL POLICE HAVE BELIEVED FOR YEARS WE SHOULD KEEP ASSAULT WEAPONS OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE IN AMERICA. WE DON'T SELL ASSAULT WEAPONS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE SHOULDN'T. AND AS A HUNTER, I'VE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT HUNTING WITH AN AK-47. I BELIEVE IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT WITH RIGHTS COME RESPONSIBILITIES. ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES IS NOT TO HAVE ASSAULT WEAPONS. HOWARD DEAN, ON THE OTHER HAND, WHILE WE WERE FIGHTING TO GET RID OF ASSAULT WEAPONS, HOWARD DEAN WAS GOING TO THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND SEEKING THEIR ENDORSEMENT, EVEN AS THEY OPPOSED AND HE OPPOSED ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN AND REASONABLENESS IN HOW WE TRY TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY SAFER. I THINK THAT'S A VALUE ISSUE. I ALSO THINK IT'S A SPECIAL INTEREST ISSUE. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IN TO SPECIAL INTERESTS IN THIS COUNTRY. I DON'T WANT TO BE THE CANDIDATE OF THE NRA, MIKE. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD REPRESENT IT. AND PRESIDENT BUSH, INCIDENTALLY, RESIGNED FROM THE NRA BECAUSE THE NRA CALLED FEDERAL AGENTS JACKBOOTED THUGS. AT THAT VERY MOMENT HOWARD DEAN WAS SEEKING THEIR ENDORSEMENT. I THINK THAT'S WRONG.
Glover: ONE OF THE THINGS GOVERNOR DEAN SAID IN RESPONSE TO YOUR COMMENTS WAS HE ADMITS THAT HIS POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IS NOT THE TYPICAL DEMOCRATIC POSITION, BUT HE SAYS Democrats MAY WELL HAVE LOST THE LAST ELECTION BECAUSE OF THEIR POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IN SOME IMPORTANT STATES LIKE TENNESSEE AND WEST VIRGINIA.
Kerry: WOW, THERE'S A POSITION OF PRINCIPLE. LET'S PLAY POLITICS WITH GUNS. YOU DON'T PLAY POLITICS WITH THESE THINGS, MIKE. PEOPLE WANT A PRESIDENT WHO IS GOING TO STAND UP FOR COMMON SENSE. COMMON SENSE IS IF YOU WANT TO HANDLE AN ASSAULT WEAPON, WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF PLACES IN THE U.S. MILITARY FOR YOU. YOU CAN GO TO BAGHDAD. YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE ELSE. WE SHOULDN'T SELL THOSE GUNS IN AMERICA. YOU KNOW, IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN I WAS AT THAT PHEASANT SHOOT THIS AFTERNOON, THE SHERIFF -- I WAS WITH PAUL FITZGERALD AND WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, STEVE HOLMES, AND THEY POINTED TO A HOUSE THAT WAS RIGHT LODGED IN NEAR HIS FARM THAT THEY JUST RAIDED AND SHUT DOWN. IT WAS A METHAMPHETAMINE HOUSE, A CRACK HOUSE. AND THE GUY THEY ARRESTED THERE WHEN THEY RAIDED IT HAD A LOADED AK-47 BESIDE HIS BED. NOW, I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I'M FOR GETTING RID OF -- BANNING -- I'M FOR BANNING ASSAULT WEAPONS. THEY SHOULDN'T BE SOLD IN AMERICA. IF HOWARD DEAN THINKS HE WANTS TO GO OUT TO AMERICA AND SELL SOME KIND OF FANCY POSITION, THAT'S, I THINK, NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VALUES. I DON'T THINK THOSE ARE AMERICAN VALUES, AND I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE CONNIVING POLITICALLY TO UNDERMINE PRINCIPLES.
Yepsen: WELL, SENATOR, YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS HUNTING TRIP. IT BEGS THE QUESTION HOW MANY OF OUR PHEASANTS DID YOU SHOOT TODAY.
Kerry: I MANAGED TO TAKE TWO WONDERFUL ONES, AND I'M APPRECIATIVE. AND MY WIFE IS SO EXCITED. SHE SAID, "GOD, YOU'VE GOT TO BRING THAT HOME."
Yepsen: AND YOU BOUGHT THE APPROPRIATE LICENSES, I ASSUME.
Kerry: YES, SIR. I BOUGHT IT OUT OF STATE, A BIG WHOPPING FEE LICENSE. BUT WHAT A PRIVILEGE. I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, YOUR LAND IS SO BEAUTIFUL, AND I APPRECIATE IT.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20040914-123037-7051r.htm
Kerry hits Bush for lapse of gun ban
By Stephen Dinan
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 14, 2004
_"Let me be very clear. I support the Second Amendment. I am a gun owner. I am a hunter. I've been a hunter since I was a kid. But I'm also, forever, a law-enforcement officer. And I know as a gun owner, as a hunter, I never thought about going hunting with a military assault rifle," Mr. Kerry said.
____Mr. Kerry also said Mr. Bush and congressional Republicans are playing games by blaming each other for the ban lapse.
____"The House says, through Tom DeLay, [the measure] isn't going to get sent to [the president], but if he asks for it we'll send it to him. Well, why didn't you ask?" Mr. Kerry said.
Mr. Kerry himself told a story yesterday illustrating the easy availability of the weapons despite the federal ban.
____He recalled pheasant hunting with a sheriff in Iowa recently. As they were walking through a field, the senator said, the sheriff pointed to a house nearby and said, "We did a drug bust in that house about a week ago. And we came in early in the morning. And the person that they were arresting was asleep, lying in bed. And lying right on the floor, right beside that drug dealer, was an AK-47."
earlier version of the script:
http://www.iptv.org/iowapress/transcripts/3109.cfm
10-24-03
Kerry: GUN SAFETY. GUN SAFETY, YEAH. WELL, I'M A FORMER LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. I RAN ONE OF THE LARGEST DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICES IN AMERICA, ONE OF THE TEN LARGEST COUNTIES. I'VE WORKED HARD TO DELIVER JUSTICE, PUT PEOPLE BEHIND BARS. AND EVERY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY IN AMERICA, ALL THE POLICE CHIEFS, ALL OF THE LOCAL POLICE HAVE BELIEVED FOR YEARS WE SHOULD KEEP ASSAULT WEAPONS OUT OF THE MARKETPLACE IN AMERICA. WE DON'T SELL ASSAULT WEAPONS IN THIS COUNTRY. WE SHOULDN'T. AND AS A HUNTER, I'VE NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT HUNTING WITH AN AK-47. I BELIEVE IN THE SECOND AMENDMENT, BUT I ALSO BELIEVE THAT WITH RIGHTS COME RESPONSIBILITIES. ONE OF THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES IS NOT TO HAVE ASSAULT WEAPONS. HOWARD DEAN, ON THE OTHER HAND, WHILE WE WERE FIGHTING TO GET RID OF ASSAULT WEAPONS, HOWARD DEAN WAS GOING TO THE NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION AND SEEKING THEIR ENDORSEMENT, EVEN AS THEY OPPOSED AND HE OPPOSED ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN AND REASONABLENESS IN HOW WE TRY TO MAKE OUR COUNTRY SAFER. I THINK THAT'S A VALUE ISSUE. I ALSO THINK IT'S A SPECIAL INTEREST ISSUE. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD GIVE IN TO SPECIAL INTERESTS IN THIS COUNTRY. I DON'T WANT TO BE THE CANDIDATE OF THE NRA, MIKE. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD REPRESENT IT. AND PRESIDENT BUSH, INCIDENTALLY, RESIGNED FROM THE NRA BECAUSE THE NRA CALLED FEDERAL AGENTS JACKBOOTED THUGS. AT THAT VERY MOMENT HOWARD DEAN WAS SEEKING THEIR ENDORSEMENT. I THINK THAT'S WRONG.
Glover: ONE OF THE THINGS GOVERNOR DEAN SAID IN RESPONSE TO YOUR COMMENTS WAS HE ADMITS THAT HIS POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IS NOT THE TYPICAL DEMOCRATIC POSITION, BUT HE SAYS Democrats MAY WELL HAVE LOST THE LAST ELECTION BECAUSE OF THEIR POSITION ON GUN CONTROL IN SOME IMPORTANT STATES LIKE TENNESSEE AND WEST VIRGINIA.
Kerry: WOW, THERE'S A POSITION OF PRINCIPLE. LET'S PLAY POLITICS WITH GUNS. YOU DON'T PLAY POLITICS WITH THESE THINGS, MIKE. PEOPLE WANT A PRESIDENT WHO IS GOING TO STAND UP FOR COMMON SENSE. COMMON SENSE IS IF YOU WANT TO HANDLE AN ASSAULT WEAPON, WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF PLACES IN THE U.S. MILITARY FOR YOU. YOU CAN GO TO BAGHDAD. YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE ELSE. WE SHOULDN'T SELL THOSE GUNS IN AMERICA. YOU KNOW, IT WAS INTERESTING WHEN I WAS AT THAT PHEASANT SHOOT THIS AFTERNOON, THE SHERIFF -- I WAS WITH PAUL FITZGERALD AND WITH THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, STEVE HOLMES, AND THEY POINTED TO A HOUSE THAT WAS RIGHT LODGED IN NEAR HIS FARM THAT THEY JUST RAIDED AND SHUT DOWN. IT WAS A METHAMPHETAMINE HOUSE, A CRACK HOUSE. AND THE GUY THEY ARRESTED THERE WHEN THEY RAIDED IT HAD A LOADED AK-47 BESIDE HIS BED. NOW, I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, I'M FOR GETTING RID OF -- BANNING -- I'M FOR BANNING ASSAULT WEAPONS. THEY SHOULDN'T BE SOLD IN AMERICA. IF HOWARD DEAN THINKS HE WANTS TO GO OUT TO AMERICA AND SELL SOME KIND OF FANCY POSITION, THAT'S, I THINK, NOT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VALUES. I DON'T THINK THOSE ARE AMERICAN VALUES, AND I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE CONNIVING POLITICALLY TO UNDERMINE PRINCIPLES.
Yepsen: WELL, SENATOR, YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS HUNTING TRIP. IT BEGS THE QUESTION HOW MANY OF OUR PHEASANTS DID YOU SHOOT TODAY.
Kerry: I MANAGED TO TAKE TWO WONDERFUL ONES, AND I'M APPRECIATIVE. AND MY WIFE IS SO EXCITED. SHE SAID, "GOD, YOU'VE GOT TO BRING THAT HOME."
Yepsen: AND YOU BOUGHT THE APPROPRIATE LICENSES, I ASSUME.
Kerry: YES, SIR. I BOUGHT IT OUT OF STATE, A BIG WHOPPING FEE LICENSE. BUT WHAT A PRIVILEGE. I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, YOUR LAND IS SO BEAUTIFUL, AND I APPRECIATE IT.
