Brady campaign endorses Lautenberg
By Matt Friedman | May 22nd, 2008 - 12:19pmFrank Lautenberg today received the endorsement of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
The organization, founded by former Ronald Reagan press secretary Jim Brady, who was paralyzed after being shot during the assassination attempt against Reagan in 1981, pushes for stricter gun control measures.
On a conference call with reporters, Sarah Brady, who co-founded the organization with her husband, characterized Lautenberg as a stalwart champion of gun control.
“I’ve worked with him for years. What a dynamo and what a leader he has been for us. It’s one thing to just vote with us and to agree with us, but Senator Lautenberg has been in the forefront,” she said.
Brady noted that Lautenberg was a co-sponsor of the Brady Bill, which was enacted in late 1993 and instituted criminal background checks for purchasing firearms. He went on to become the primary sponsor of the Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban in 1996, which restricted gun ownership by those convicted of misdemeanor domestic abuse offenses and those under permanent restraining orders.
Lautenberg has also introduced legislation to close the “gun show loophole” in the original Brady Bill, which allows some private vendors to sell firearms without conducting a criminal background check.
Brady Campaign President Paul Helmke, a former Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind., said that he’s happy with the record of Lautenberg’s opponent, Rob Andrews, but that Lautenberg had been a more vocal advocate of gun control. And while his organization typically stays out of primaries, Helmke said, they made an exception for Lautenberg.
“Congressman Andrews has done an excellent job on this issue in Congress and we strongly appreciate his support. In this case we’ve got a great Senator and Congressman, and we’d be happy if they both stayed where they are and continued doing that,” said Helmke. “Since it’s Frank Lautenberg, there are no qualms at all. We stand with Senator Lautenberg regardless of who his opponents are.”
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I know this article is old, but...
I know this article is a couple of months old, but I cannot help but respond to it.
Senator Frank Lautenberg snuck in a paragraph of text inside a huge 400 page budget bill and basically stealthed in some very questionable gun control legislation which was signed into law by our ultraslick former President Bill Clinton.
The "Lautenberg Amendment" basically defies the wording and ruling of our Constitution's 2nd Amendment by enacting a life-time, ex-post-facto ban on firearms ownership on any person with a record of a state misdemeanor in domestic violence.
Are misdemeanor offenders of domestic violence a serious firearms-related threat? I have never heard of one involved in a shooting spree. Certainly, the millions of them with minor records have not misused firearms.
But Senator Lautenberg's goal was not so much to disarm these people as it was to further taint the reputation of gun-owning citizens by displaying them in the context with "wife beaters".
No freedom protected in the Bill of Rights should be lost for violation of a misdemeanor offense. Felony offenses? Sure, but not misdemeanors, and "state" misdemeanors at that. Remember, a misdemeanor domestic violence offence could involve only shouting (who hasn't done that?), or a wife slapping a husband after catching him in an affair (like Hillary did to Bill Clinton).
Senator Lautenberg will deny you the right to self-protection, but never, never, never will he go without armed protection. You can bet that Senator Lautenberg enjoys the continual security he would deny to the rest of us.
If anyone wants to amend the Constitution, then fine, there is a procedure for that. But sneaking micro text into a huge and unrelated budget bill denies America even of the freedom of open debate.
Senator Frank Lautenberg committed this "crime" against freedom more than 10 years ago. Perhaps it is time to "retire" this selfish man at the polls next November. Vote him out; vote in a congressman who seriously takes his vows to defend the Constitution instead of this one who does every thing he can to skirt around it.
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