…the EPA is considering banning lead ammunition. This would, in essence, kill off sport shooting entirely.
This is yet another example of why there’s really no such thing as a pro-gun Democrat. No matter how much they may personally swear up and down they respect the second amendment, the leadership they elect, the judges they appoint, and the bureaucrats they hire will inevitably tilt toward gun-grabbing causes far more than people chosen by Republicans. It’s simply their nature. After all, “clinging” to guns, like clinging to religion, is something those NASCAR retards do, not a fit preoccupation for fashionable liberal elites.
Between this and their refusal to enforce immigration laws, it’s almost like Obama and his minions want to turn off their few remaining supporters among moderate voters in advance of the November elections. Someone more prone to conspiracy theories than myself might surmise that Obama blames Reid and Pelosi for his unpopularity, and sees having them replaced by a Republican congress to run against (ala Bill Clinton in 1996) as the only way he can win reelection in 2012. But even I’m not quite that cynical.
Yet.
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