Shotguns are typically shorter-range than rifles.

However, shotgun wounds are more likely to result in death than rifle wounds, which are similarly more likely to result in death than pistol wounds. (This data was laid out in detail by Gary Kleck and Don Kates in their book Armed: New Perspectives on Gun Control.)

So, is he putting 12-gauge shotguns on top of his "weapons of unusual lethality" list?

There goes my support for Romney :(

That leaves, well, no one...

"That leaves, well, no one..."

Well, there is Fred T.. 8>)

Just FYI-

Take a look at the Youpoll poll at the right side of this article.

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1318

Its the old tired, familiar argument: We should accept "reasonable" restrictions on our firearm ownership freedom based on the totally illogical basis Romney puts forth. You can't reason with those people. Why is anyone surprised this is coming from the mouth of a man who was very successful and popular in the land of Kerry and Kennedy?
Politicians. They always campaign right and govern left.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, except by reasonable restictions.

Yep, that is what my pocket Constitution says. Who would have thought? I thought the right of abortion was the 2nd Amendment.

I've always been skeptical of Romney on guns and this cinches it. Please, Please, Fred. Get with it!

"Lethal Weapon: Could Romney's Gun Position Kill His Campaign?"

Romney's fake pro-Second Amendment stance is what has made him someone for whom I cannot vote.

Fred Thompson will get my vote--unless he too starts making anti-Second Amendment noises.

For me, the Second Amendment is the litmus test.

Whoever supports the Second Amendment the most--that's who I support the most.

But if no one supports it, then I vote for no one and just stay hunkered down here in my bunker with my tin foil hat with my boomsticks.

You heard the man . . . Usual Lethality only! No more TASERs or pepper spray; those have got to be at least two standard deviations below the mean of lethality.

Stick a fork in him, he's done.

Fred Thompson? I liked him once upon a time, but he seems to want to be President about as much as he wants a head cold. He is a major disappointment and has no chance of actually winning.

Ron Paul? Sorry, I'm not so wedded to gun rights that I can support an isolationist. Huckabee? Way too liberal on many issues. He, along with McCain and the Mayor, shot their hands up in response to "do you believe in man-made global warming" at that ridiculous debate in Iowa. Good for Fred for telling the moderator off.

Ron Paul is not an isolationalist. He is a non-interventionist. Big difference. His record on constitutional issues is second to none. He may be this country's last hope.

Why is anyone surprise that a liberal supports gun control? Romney was governor of what state?

gun control == liberal. Works every time it's tried.

I'm with Fred.

I am very discappointed in that but what can be expected of a resident of Massachussets. They hate guns more then almost everyone except NJ and CA. He is a conservative only on fiscal policies and is preferable to a democrat but just barely.

Sigh. With the Heller case pending, I've been educating myself on the 2A, the militia, etc. What is dawning on me more and more is that these "AW"-ban folks have no clue about how the 2A relates to the militia. This is made clear in their calls to federally ban those very firearms that are the MOST appropriate to militia service and thus, arguably the "most" protected by the 2A....