Word: gunness
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...this context, moderate Democrats who had been initially inclined to soft-pedal their support for gun control might find it in their interest to defend the principle more forcefully. "Conceivably, the Supreme Court in Parker could do for gun-control advocates what Roe v. Wade did for pro-life advocates," says Robert J. Spitzer, political scientist at SUNY Cortland and author of The Politics of Gun Control. "It could be a catalyzing event." Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates would have to reassure the political center that they supported modest forms of gun control, but Democrats would be freer...
...tsunami, a very energizing event for Second Amendment enthusiasts," says former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia and N.R.A. board member. "It would highlight the importance of maintaining the presidency to get good Second Amendment judges." In other words, when they go to war before the Supreme Court, both gun-rights and gun-control advocates should be careful what they wish...
Hillary Clinton's Presidential campaign was designed and built to be a dreadnought, an all-big-gun battleship that would rule the waves without being dented, slowed or thrown off course. But it has been caught off guard by a submarine named Barack Obama, running silent, running deep - until he surfaced with a spectacular showing in the first round of fund-raising numbers. What startled Clinton's team was not just Obama's totals or his success at drumming up contributions over the Internet, but also how much he is collecting from the big donors who have fueled Clinton enterprises...
...lives of those that are over there with them. One of the most amazing things to me was the fact that they actually landed a helicopter not even knowing who we were and just assuming that we were military. They came in with their helicopter even though there was gun fire happening around us and still landed the helicopter and saved our lives. That is what we are talking about in this war and that is what they are doing...
...point, Williams asked for a show of hands: "How many of you, in your adult lifetime, have had a gun in the house?" It turned out Gravel, Biden, Dodd, Richardson and Kucinich had. Edwards and Obama hadn't. Clinton clearly wasn't counting the armament that had surrounded her in the White House...