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Sounding like she was scripted by the brady bunch, clinton revealed her stance on gun control today - she wants more.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 03c3d.html

Clinton wants meeting of the minds about gun laws

10:54 PM CST on Monday, March 3, 2008
By CHRISTY HOPPE / The Dallas Morning News
choppe@dallasnews.com

AUSTIN – Hillary Rodham Clinton, locked in a fierce battle for Texas, said Monday that as president, she would not try to impose New York-like gun restrictions at the national level.

Mrs. Clinton said in an interview with The Dallas Morning News that she would like to see bans on assault weapons and the end of loopholes that allow weapons to be sold at gun shows without required background checks.

"There can be a meeting of the minds between lawful gun owners and those who believe we can protect Second Amendment rights without giving in to the bad guys," she said.

Although gun control has not been a major topic in Mrs. Clinton's battle with Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination, it's always an important issue in Texas.

Touching on several topics in a wide-ranging conversation on the eve of the state's crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton spoke of deep religious convictions, saying that they guide her in many policy positions because "it would be hard to separate out."

"I feel comfortable relying on my faith," she said.

Mrs. Clinton said her Methodist teachings exhort her to help those less well off and do all the good that can be accomplished. She said she wakes up every day and is motivated by those tenets.

"I've often told those who ask that the best rule in politics is the Golden Rule," she said.

Asked if she had always abided by do-unto-others in her own political decisions, Mrs. Clinton smiled. "I'm sure I have fallen short," she said.

Mrs. Clinton also said that she envisions that her administration would be demonstrably different from her husband's eight years because the issues have changed, especially the security concerns after of 9/11.

"That is a big factor in thinking about defending our country," she said.

She acknowledged that she and President Clinton share many of the same ideas and advisers and that "I look to Bill for advice."

But she said that she is looking to a "whole new generation" of talented, younger people that would bring new life and different ideas into her administration.

She reiterated that she gathers information from a wide range of advisers but then intends to make decisions and be held accountable for them.

The campaign for Texas and Ohio has centered on national security in the final days, and Mrs. Clinton predicted that would continue to the fall, when John McCain will probably be the Republican nominee. That was a big factor in her campaign's theme of a potential 3 a.m. phone call to the White House warning of international crisis, which she has used in speeches and ads to contrast her experience with Mr. Obama's. He has fired back that his judgment was proved to be superior because he opposed the Iraq war.

Mrs. Clinton allowed that Austin advertising guru Roy Spence, a longtime friend who recently took a greater role in her campaign, "was part of the conversations" about how to best illustrate the issue.

Mr. Spence used a similar ad, employing a red phone ringing in the White House, in a 1984 ad for Walter Mondale's primary campaign against Gary Hart.

"Roy is someone I have a lot of confidence in," Mrs. Clinton said.



And my answer to the DMN, which I doubt will be published, even expurgated, because I was published within the last couple of weeks.

There's that feeling again, that one that happens when you hear a politician make declarations like "We can reach a meeting of the minds." or "Surely we can agree on . . ." or "Common sense dictates . . ."

Hillary suggests that not banning assault weapons and not closing a non-existant loophole is giving in to the bad guys. Of course since the NRA, TSRA, and every other pro-gun organization is against those ideas, what does that make them. Sure it's unsaid, but it sure is implied - if you aren't with me you're against me, and that means you can't reach a meeting of the minds, and that makes you bad, and that means we have to pass laws that you do not like.

Ms. Clinton, the Assault Weapons Ban was already tried, and it was a resounding failure, and it was allowed to sunset, and the failure is even more obvious by the lack of a violent crime increase since its expiration.

The "Gun Show Loophole" does not exist, it's merely a practical part of a law that was a compromise to begin with, a law that would not have passed without one of those meetings of the minds, a law that allows sales between private individuals, whether they are at a gun show or at home. Closing the so called loophole would involve a major change in the infrastructure of the National Instant Check system to allow any private citizen to access it for checks on any other private citizens that want to buy guns from them, an impossibly large and unwieldy infrastructure change - totally impractical if not purely a pipe dream.

That feeling is the sick one in the pit of your stomach that says you know what is coming next - "You elected me, so I know what's best for you."

What part of "shall not be infringed." don't you understand, Hilly? We already tried your way, let's try the other now.