The 'Liberal Lion' stalked your rights

August 26, 7:11 PMCharlotte Gun Rights ExaminerPaul Valone

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Of like minds: President Barack Obama embraces Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass. Said the Associated Press: "Despite the age
difference between the 77-year-old Senator and the 48-year-old
president, the two have forged a close bond." What a surprise!
(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Diplomatic conservatives will probably maintain a respectful silence as the media, Handgun Control Inc. (aka “The Brady Campaign”) and lefties everywhere breathlessly lament the death of Senator Ted Kennedy, the so-called “Liberal Lion of the Senate.”

Never having been a diplomat, however, I bid him good riddance. Beyond even the good senator’s killing of Mary Jo Kopechne (yes, Teddy Kennedy’s car really did kill more people than my “assault weapon”), few politicians have attacked the Second Amendment so vociferously, so often and for so long.

Gun control in America is a ‘60s phenomenon. Propelled by the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, the Gun Control Act of 1968 – which among its many provisions restricted interstate commerce in firearms and created the ever-expanding list of people prohibited from owning guns – was the leading wave of restrictions on what had previously been a non-controversial cornerstone of the Bill of Rights.

Leading that attack was good old Teddy Kennedy. Among just a few highlights of the senator’s very long gun control resume:

• Fomenting support for the 1968 Gun Control Act;
• Introducing “legislation to ban handguns, register handguns, license handgun owners, ban ammunition, authorize the Consumer Products Safety Commission to prohibit the manufacture of firearms and ammunition, and impose waiting periods on handgun purchases”;
• Introducing an amendment to eliminate all common hunting ammunition; and
• Introducing S. 2605, legislation to require yet-to-exist “microstamping” technology which constitutes defacto registration, for all firearms.

We could go on and on, of course, but consider what a gun control supporter has to say about Senator Kennedy:

“Kennedy supported the Gun Control Act of 1968, and since then, every other legislative effort to strengthen federal gun control laws – including the 1993 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act and the federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. He has fought all efforts to take steps backward – unsuccessfully so in the instances of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986 (which weakened the Gun Control Act of 1968) and the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 (which expired in September 2004) …

“Kennedy supports the full agenda of the gun control movement and has backed proposed legislation to limit gun purchases to one per month, to require background checks on all purchasers at gun shows, and to mandate gun manufacturers to install state-of-the-art safety devices on their firearms …”

So when you see newspapers lament Kennedy’s passing, write a letter. When radio shows bring it up, make a phone call. Deliver loud and clear the message that instead of mourning the “Liberal Lion of the Senate,” we should be thankful he was not able to stalk our rights on the bountiful hunting ground of the Democrat-dominated 111th Congress.