speedsix wrote: " As Governor, Romney signed a law to ban 2A Militia guns. As President, signed a law that finally lets me carry in National Parks. I plan to vote on results, not cheap talk and posturing." Could you explain this, please?
I'll try.
1.
Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts when the Federal ban on various homeland defense rifles expired. He supported a state law to keep them banned. Channeling the spirit of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Gage, Romney made this statement at the bill signing ceremony.
"These guns are not made for recreation or self-defense. They are instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people."
As a candidate for ther Republican nomination, Mitt Romney told Tim Russert on NBC that he supports a ban on the militia weapons protected by the Second Amendment, to "keep weapons of unusual lethality from being on the street" [sic]
2.
U.S. Citizens used to be prohibited from having a firearm in U.S. National Parks.
Two years ago, Obama signed a bill that removed that restriction. Now the parks are the same as the surrounding state.
David Barna, chief of public affairs for the National Park Service, said the laws are now the same inside and outside of the park gates.
"The law doesn't change when you enter a park," Barna said. "What you see in the parks shouldn't be any different than what you see outside the park."
3.
Talk is cheap. If we can't have a President who talks the talk and walks the walk, I would rather have a President who talks anti-gun and votes pro-gun than one who talks a good game but then votes anti-gun when it matters.
