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Man, O man! Gotta love Alan Keyes, former Presidential Candidate, when it comes to straight talk, the media and the Second Amendment. Here's a video clip of an extraordinary confrontation he recently had with a FoxNews (!) political reporter who even at the end of the seven-plus minute interview, doesn't understand what a hack he is, only that he has been torn a new fundamental orifice in front of a large number of viewers.
I had read yesterday in my ever-lovin's NY Daily News (yeah!, I know…
that Keyes has stepped on his member by suggesting that everyone should have a machinegun, and I found this Brady Bunch release from last week on-line:
Gotta love his style and his position on the Second Amendment!
I had read yesterday in my ever-lovin's NY Daily News (yeah!, I know…
Of course, Jim Brady said no such thing as apparently the best he can come up with for the past 24 years is a wobbly grin and an occasional howl thanks to that psycho Hinckley, and the Brady release is wrong (nothing new there, eh!?!) on other things, but Number One is that Keyes said no such thing, and even the Chicago Sun-Times got that part right!The following is being issued by the
Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence:
Alan Keyes, the Maryland resident running for the Illinois Senate, said
yesterday that machine guns should be legal.
Not semiautomatic assault weapons, mind you -- the guns that were outlawed
10 years ago. Mr. Keyes is for legal machine guns, which came under
extraordinary federal regulation in the 1930s after the guns were misused by
another guy named Al -- Al Capone.
The manufacture of new machine guns was banned under the McClure-Volkmer
Act of 1986.
Keyes' comments, published today in the Chicago Sun-Times, were made at a
press conference in which he was criticizing "ideological extremism" of his
opponent.
"Alan Keyes sees a country where every American should be armed to the
hilt with the most deadly firepower imaginable," said Jim Brady, an Illinois
native who served as President Ronald Reagan's press secretary. "I cannot
fathom how he could come up with such a notion. It's insane."
There are only five days left when Congress is in session before the
expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban -- a law that President Bush pledged
he'd renew as a candidate for President in 2000. If the ban expires, Alan
Keyes will be able to fire semiautomatic assault weapons to his heart's
content -- but there's no current legislation that will give him his machine
guns.
The Sun-Times article is online at
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-sen25.html.
So watch (broadband suggested) Keyes address the typical media misrepresentation in the most forthright manner imaginable!Declaring "the front line of the war against terror once again involves the citizens," Republican Alan Keyes said Tuesday he believes the U.S. Constitution grants properly trained private individuals the right to own and carry machine guns.
"You're not talking about giving citizens access to atom bombs and other things," the former presidential candidate said. "That's ridiculous."
But the GOP nominee for U.S. Senate argued the founding fathers intended the Second Amendment to allow people to carry the types of weapons "customarily carried in those days by ordinary infantry soldiers."
"And, yes, does that mean that in this day and age people would have the right to have access to the kind of the weapons our ordinary infantry people have access to? With proper training and so forth to make sure that they could handle them successfully, that's exactly what was meant."
Gotta love his style and his position on the Second Amendment!