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« Brady chapter head: too many gun shows | Main | Federal self defense bill »

More on Romney's record

Posted by David Hardy · 15 January 2007 09:38 AM

The Boston Globe notes that Mitt Romney's gun position has, er, varied a bit over years. As have his positions on other mattters....

· Politics

3 Comments | Leave a comment

Eric M. Larson | January 15, 2007 10:16 AM | Reply

Seems like there's a definite urban/rural breakdown in thinking, to say the least---but geographical differences often translate into powerful and significant and potent POLITICAL differences. I'm a bit surprised that nobody has apparently put together a video that, among other things, illustrates the vast contrasts between the millions of acres of open space in our Western states, and crowded urban environments where lotsa folks point and say "What's the use of a gun here?" Apart from the self-defense argument, which is perpetually valid, my sense is that not enough folks are viewing gun possession and use in context of the ENTIRE United States, and the sigificant variations in local conditions.

Jacob | January 15, 2007 11:45 AM | Reply

What continues to amaze me is that Romney thinks he can get away with his flip-flop on guns. It takes less than five minutes to Google up his past history in favor of gun control.

Ken | January 16, 2007 10:15 AM | Reply

I'm about 25 miles from downtown Boston. The majority of the lots here are 1 acre, between 2 and 8 times the size of any of the places I lived in California; in the town next to us the minimum lot size for new construction is 5 acres. Boston itself is a relatively small city compared to some I've lived in or visited "out west". I could post dozens of photos of wide open spaces here in Massachusetts, though admittedly not the flat mile+ stretches on which I used to shoot. The only guns for which geography really makes a difference are the ones which the prohibitionists insist they don't care about, namely hunting rifles. I don't find much use for by .300 Win Mag, 7mm Rem Mag, .30-06 and .308 rifles here, except for a very small number of 600+ yard ranges around the state. For the other kind of guns, I've always found a Sig, Glock or 1911 to be a much more practical tool in an urban environment than out on the high planes. And those nasty AKs and AR15s were originally designed for and are much more useful in the shorter range environments here in the east than they ever would be on those millions of acres.

Ken

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