Guns Don't Kill Elections, People Do

Flip-flopping twice in seven days, democratic presidential candidate John Kerry this week proudly held up a deer-hunting rifle in Western Pennsylvania and than lit into President Bush for not extending the 1994 federal ban on assault weapons. Kerry Says al Qaeda Benefits from Bush's Gun Ban Stance [SFGate.com].

This is way over the top. It was box cutters, you fool!! Automatic rilfes have little if anything to do with terrorism and nothing at all to do wth al Qaeda's attacks on 9/11, in Madrid and the like. Vulnerability of domestic police forces to drug-gang violence, yes. But the jihadists use suicide bombers, IEDs and the like. It's the sure sign of a dying campaign when its leader -- who ignores the real political and international defects of Bush's terorism policies -- is reduced to making such a transparently idiotic and pandering charge. No wonder that Bush is trouncing Kerrry 56-29 in polls for "taking a clear stand on the issues."

 Posted by glenn