# Kerry. Pro or anti assault rifle? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 24, 2004, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-pro-or-anti-assault-rifle/265840 "2004-09-24T07:30:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Carcosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b3f665/32.png) [@Carcosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carcosa)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-pro-or-anti-assault-rifle/265840/41 "2004-09-27T01:12:44Z")
> [@Gadfly](#): > > Will this talk of flip-flopping never end? > > With moronic threads like these, by November, we’ll be getting “Kerry. Pro or anti [Twinkie](http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040922/bs_afp/us_company_food_bankrupt_040922151905)?” and “Kerry. Pro or anti [Pogo Pope](http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10864181%5E1702,00.html)?” My understanding is that he voted for the Pogo Pope before he voted against the Pogo Pope and he threw his Twinkies over the White House fence in 1971. Of course, I got this information from Dan Rather so please don’t ask me for a cite. ---
**Author:** ![SnakeSpirit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snakespirit/32/7271_2.png) [@SnakeSpirit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnakeSpirit)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2004, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-pro-or-anti-assault-rifle/265840/42 "2004-09-27T07:27:00Z")
> [@tracer](#): > > Maybe the danger is “Those dirty no-nothing crooks are going to start firing from the hip because they see people do it in the movies. And when they do, they’re going to miss their intended target and hit _ **your children!!** _ It’s vitally important that we ban all the guns that look like the ones that people fire from the hip with in Hollywood _right now!_ Oh, and we should also ban revolvers, because movie cowboys are shown not only shooting from the hip but also playing quick-draw with them, which makes them even _more_ unlikely to hit an unintended target.” **tracer,** you have made it clear that the problem isn’t guns, it’s MOVIES! We all need to write our senators and congressmen RIGHT NOW and DEMAND that they ban any and all forms of entertainment (movies, video games, computer programs, cartoons, comic books, DVDs, VCRs, BetaMax’s, cassette tapes, 8-tracks, records, etc.) which contain reference to killing, guns, firing from the hip, quick draw (bye bye Quick-draw McGraw), target shooting, wars, combat, duelling, murder, manslaughter, intentional wounding, assault, violent harassment and swearing. It is only with quick and decisive action to prevent this direct brain programming of our children (and adults who are still children mentally due to excessive TV watching) that we will be able to prevent the millions of firearms deaths annually and restore peace upon this great nation of ours. Hallelujah! ---
**Author:** ![Spiny\_Norman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Spiny\_Norman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiny_Norman)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-pro-or-anti-assault-rifle/265840/43 "2004-09-28T00:46:46Z")
The “exclusive interview” in Outdoor Life turns out to be mostly fabrication, patched together of data points from - among other things - a questionnaire that a Kerry staffer filled out. Just sloppy, misleading journalism and lots of people waiting for any excuse to pounce on a decent man. John Kerry owns an old military bolt-action rifle - most likely a Moisin-Nagant. Not an assault rifle. [Link.](http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/27/politics/campaign/27guns.html?n=Top%2fNews%2fWashington%2fCampaign%202004%2fCandidates%2fJohn%20F%20Kerry) I now await the inevitable spin where an erroneous statement being corrected is labeled a flip-flop. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kerry-pro-or-anti-assault-rifle/265840.md?page=2)