Reply #77: Dean's rhetoric about guns being a "state's rights issue"

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is pure garbage. Most of the guns used in crimes in metropolitan areas are trafficked from the south/rural states. Therefore it's not a state's rights issue, it's a federal one, requiring strong federal laws regulating and tracking owernship of guns -- ALL guns.

I want to hear him denounce the NRA as an extremist organization. He must support the Democratic Party's stance on gun control as advocated by Clinton/Gore. That is the only way he will get my vote if he is nominated. If he thinks he is going to get the libertarian/right wing/conservative/redneck vote AND mine, he is sorely mistaken. Hear this: this will divide the Democratic Party in the general election if he somehow manages to squeak out the nomination. It would be worse than McGovern because the Democratic Party machinery would be in revolt. Clinton (who holds the biggest influence over the party) will not support any NRA-lite stance.