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Events at U Conn Law
It was an all-day seminar, and I think a very good one. Too tired now to say much more, but a high point came when Clayton Cramer and others pinned Richard Aborn, former head of Brady Campaign. He had insisted that he and they were never for banning handguns, that was a canard put out by NRA to scare the average gun owner, they were perfectly comfortable with law-abiding people owning handguns (so long as they registered them). Oh, and they did want to ban "assault rifles."
The pin was: how can you be in favor of banning "assault rifles," which are involved in a fraction of one percent of homicides, and not really be in favor of banning handguns, which are involved in about 50% of them? No answer was forthcoming, but only evasion.
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So did Aborn support or oppose the DC and Chicago handgun bans?
Obama returned a position paper that stated he wanted to ban handguns, then later claimed that his assistant mistakenly filled it in incorrectly. But then we have him on video in support of the D.C. handgun ban (see "Obama Flip Flops on D.C. Gun Ban" at Youtube)
"...(so long as they registered them)."
Further evidence they wanted to ban handguns, since there is only one serious reason for registering firearms. Just ask all the people in California who registered their legal "assault weapons" under penalty of law, only to have the State decide a few months later that "hey, those are really illegal after all."