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On her show Monday night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow accused the
National Rifle Association of being far more interested in electing
Republicans than defending Second Amendment rights.
Last week, the NRA endorsed Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and has now launched ads against President Barack Obama.
“The NRA is not looking to honestly compare the two candidate’s
records on their one and only issue of gun rights,” Maddow said. “The
NRA just wants the Republican. That is what they want. That’s why they
exist. They are a Republican interest group and to describe them any
other way is to play into their spin. The idea of how to advance their
own interests is to get a Republican elected to office. And whatever you
think about that in terms of its effectiveness on Republican politics,
frankly, that stinks for people who really do care about gun policy,
because they have the worst supposed advocates ever.”
Maddow
noted that Romney actually endorsed strict gun laws and signed an
assault weapons ban as governor of Massachusetts. Obama, on the other
hand, has not signed any bills that restrict gun rights. To the
contrary, the President has signed into law bills that allow for guns to
be carried on Amtrak trains and in national parks.
Romney has previously described assault rifles as “instruments of
destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people.”
But he began to shift his views in 2006, purchasing a lifetime
membership from the NRA and telling reporters that he had gone “varmint”
hunting.
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