Gun Policy News
Gun Lobby Extremism Sees NRA Attack Obama, Endorse 'Enemy' McCain
13 October 2008
Los Angeles Times, Editorial
'I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away." Those words, intoned by Barack Obama at a Virginia campaign event in September, were a kind of incantation aimed at exorcising the ghost of Al Gore from the Democratic presidential race. Gore's favorable stance on gun control was widely seen as a key factor in his loss to George W. Bush in 2000, and it's not likely another Democrat will soon make the same mistake. Yet... (GunPolicy.org)