Originally Posted by Prince Yamato
So Giuliani says he WON'T go after AWs and you all start bitching. Look, we're NOT going to get an ideal pro-gun candidate in 2008. It unfortunately WILL be a matter of settling for the lesser of two evils. But if this lesser said he won't ban AWs (which is more the GW said), I say better him than Hillary.
He instantly switched his position now out of political convenience, what's to say he won't switch back again the second he gets elected? Especially if there's a media-hyped shooting of some sort with anything resembling an "assault weapon" and a media-driven demand to do "something."
Or, like the old saying goes, leopards don't change their spots. Friends who lived in NYC under his reign tell me he ran the place like a despot. Apologists like to remind everybody about how he "cleaned up" the city, but they want you to forget he turned it into a virtual police state to do so. It doesn't take much imagination to picture someone with such totalitarian urges waking up one day and deciding they want to disarm the populace. Again. Or still. If not in the name of being "tough on crime," maybe he'd do it to protect an attempt to continue his stay in office after his term is up like he tried as Mayor...
And speaking of "cleaning up" the city, he'll no doubt also try to paint himself some social conservative credentials for driving the peep/burlesque shows out of Times Square. What he won't mention is how he used predatory and selective government regulation and zoning practices to drive them out of business and/or real estate. Nor will he likely mention how he used such tactics to crush small businesses for corporate buddies. Or how he used them to run out artistic venues/shops with politics he didn't like or were otherwise not 'thinking of the children.' That doesn't sound very conservative to me. In fact, it stinks of big-government, nanny-state tyranny.
As such, maybe he won't go directly for an AWB. Perhaps he'll just get his anti-gun friends in the Congress to create wacky taxes and regulations to force all gun shops out of business?
If you get right down to it, even Queen Hillary is probably "less evil" than him. But I doubt he'll make it past the primaries, so it probably doesn't matter much.
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. Now, he COULD manage VP (ie, Nixon and Spiro Agnew). This is also why Barak Obama will not be president. Clinton- there you go Anglo-Saxon. Ethnic VP... history could favor it and you could see Clinton/Obama. My hunch is McCain is the fellow we need to focus on. 
