The Countertop Chronicles

He may be a gun banning bigot, but at least he’s trying to at least pretend to respond to our questions and concerns (though the continued focus on machine guns really ticks me off).

Of all the presidential candidates, none seems more eager to talk to outdoorsmen than Senator John Edwards. The Democrat from North Carolina, who has a mediocre reputation on gun control and is perpetually in third place among Democratic primary voters, has talked to Field & Stream about his Hunting and Fishing Bill of Rights and is the only candidate with a “rural liaison,” David “Mudcat” Saunders.

And kudo’s to Field and Stream for keeping up the pressure

Field & Stream has been contacting other presidential candidates in order to ask them questions about hunting and fishing, but the Edwards campaign has been the most responsive. If you have a question for Saunders, post it below and he will respond this week.

Read the post, think, then post the best question you can.

UPDATE

Kudo’s to Bitter for taking him on.

And here’s my question:

Mudcat,

You stated the following:

“The question on assault weapons is where John draws the line. He told me simply, “I don’t like machine guns.” He believes them to be offensive weapons meant to kill people in an offensive fashion, not defensive weapons for use in a defensive fashion for the protection of you or your family. By the way, there is not a state in the union where you can legally hunt with a fully automatic weapon. Like he said, he doesn’t like “machine guns”. That’s where he draws the line. But don’t let anybody confuse you. He doesn’t consider a semi-automatic shotgun or hunting rifle a machine gun.”

I have two questions:

First, I’m wondering if this means that Mr. Edwards OPPOSES the (so called) assault weapons ban since it has nothing to do with machine guns and everything to do with banning the semi auto hunting rifles (and per the Admission of the Violence Policy Center and the Brady Bunch, which was formerly known as Handgun Control, Inc. was purposefully designed to confuse an uneducated public about the difference between machine guns and semi automatics) Mr. Edwards claims to support.

Second, since Mr. Edwards draws the line at machine guns, does he also oppose shoelaces, since the ATF has declared them to be the equivalent of a machine gun?

See: http://tinyurl.com/2p4×2z