(GunReports.com) — From Aaron Dorr, Executive Director of the Iowa Gun Owners 2nd Amendment group:
According to the national polls, Governor Romney is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination. Given his hostile record and his unashamed quotes supporting even more gun control – you and I need to all we can to get the word out here in Iowa.
Recently several of you have contacted us to ask us about specific candidates and their responses or lack thereof to our Presidential Survey. Many of you said that you “knew” Governor Romney was “bad on guns” but that you didn’t really know why. Governor Romney has not yet replied to our candidate survey. To be blunt, I don’t expect that he will. Let’s review his statements and record.
Mandatory Waiting Periods: While a candidate, Romney told the Boston Herald that he supported a mandatory 5 day waiting period when it came to buying handguns. Think of how many abused spouses, who are in fear for their lives, are unable to secure protection for themselves because of anti-gun policies like this. Criminals don’t have to wait to buy a gun when they want to terrorize citizens.
Mandatory Background Checks: Romney has been an outspoken supporter of making law abiding citizens submit to background checks in a misguided effort to catch criminals trying to buy guns. But as study after study points out, background checks for law abiding citizens don’t accomplish anything – other than giving the government a record of who is buying guns. Just like the waiting period issue, criminals don’t have to submit to these background checks.
PERMANENT Assault Weapons Ban: While the Governor of Massachusetts, Romney signed into law a PERMANENT ban on so called “assault weapons” – guns that many of us use for self-defense, hunting, or sporting purposes. This mirrored the law that was signed by President Bill Clinton back in 1994 and went even farther. However where the federal ban had a 10 year “sunset” clause that rendered it meaningless in 2004, Governor Romney made sure that the ban he signed into law would NEVER automatically expire. In the January 2008 debate Romney said, “I would have signed the (federal) assault weapon ban that came to his (the president’s) desk. I said I would have supported that and signed a similar bill in our state. It was a bill worked out, by the way, between pro-gun lobby and anti-gun lobby individuals. Both sides of the issue came together…”
Lesson Learned: It is because of quotes like the one above that Iowa Gun Owners will NEVER compromise on our 2nd Amendment freedoms. The minute you do, the anti-gunners like Governor Romney will immediately claim to have the support from gun owners and we will lose even more of our gun rights.
Please take a few minutes to contact Gov. Romney’s Iowa campaign chairwoman, Rep. Renee Schulte at 319-431-6150 and ask her about Governor Romney’s hostility towards the 2nd Amendment.
Don’t expect a welcome reception – after all Rep. Schulte broke a written promise and voted against Constitutional Carry this year on the floor of the Iowa House.
Please make this call today. Remember, your voice is magnified tremendously right now when all of these candidates are vying for your attention, votes and money.
