ongoing series about the presidential race<\/a>, I decided to do an evaluation of where the two vice-presidential candidates stand on gun rights issues. \u00a0I have a pretty good idea what the answer is going to be but it is vitally important that we base our views upon facts and not anecdotes. \u00a0So let us see what a little research tells us about which of the two candidates would be better suited to protect our rights if they were called upon to assume the presidency or to cast a deciding vote in the Senate.<\/p>\nAs sitting Vice President, we will give Joe Biden the first turn …<\/p>\n
Vice President Biden is perhaps most famously known in gun rights circles for stating that \u201cBanning guns is an idea whose time has come<\/em>.\u201d in a November 18, 1993 interview with the Associated Press. \u00a0At the time, gun rights were under severe attack by the Clinton Administration and many Democrats in Congress. \u00a0Vice President Biden, who was then Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, was only too happy to join the call for a complete end to Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\nNote that he didn’t say ‘reasonable restriction<\/em>‘ or ‘background checks<\/em>‘ or any of the other first-step approaches to gun control that are so popular amongst gun control advocates today. \u00a0No … he said ‘ban<\/em>!’ \u00a0It has become popular among gun control advocates debating the issue to say \u201cNo one wants to take away your guns.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0 But when they say that, just remember that Vice President Biden has advocated that very thing.<\/p>\nBut people change with time and perhaps his position on gun rights has mellowed. \u00a0Are there more recent comments we can look to? \u00a0Why yes there are. \u00a0During a presidential debate in 2007, CNN hosted a YouTube debate in which citizens posed questions in videos. \u00a0One of the videos selected was a man who asked the candidates’ position on gun control while jokingly\u00a0referring\u00a0to his firearm as his ‘baby.’<\/p>\n
As seen in the video below, then presidential candidate Biden (whose comments begin at 1:10) mocked the man for calling the gun his ‘baby’, stating \u201cI tell you what. \u00a0If that’s his baby he needs help … I don’t know that he is mentally qualified to own that gun.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nDuring his answer, he appeared visibly disgusted and went on to proudly remind the audience that \u201cI’m the guy who originally wrote the assault weapons ban.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n
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Last Saturday morning, in the great Commonwealth of Virginia, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney announced Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan as his pick for vice president.<\/p>\n