Vermont Gov. on Gun Control: ‘You Need a 50-State Solution... We’re Not Living in the Middle Ages’

[SecularMotion]

(CNSNews.com) -- “We’re not living in the Middle Ages,” Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin said Friday as he called for national gun control legislation.

“My view on gun legislation is this: You will not solve this problem state by state. You need a 50-state solution, and we better come up with one fast,” Shumlin said last week at Politico’s Sixth Annual State Solutions Conference at the Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

Shumlin pushed for a "50-state solution" despite coming from a rural state where guns are commonly used for hunting.

“There’s no question there’s a different culture with guns and a different challenge for politicians in urban and rural states,” he said in response to a question made via Twitter about balancing public safety with Second Amendment rights..

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/jose-r-gonzalez/vt-governor-gun-control-you-need-50-state-solution-were-not-living

[Marengo]

1. The Democratic party is official hostile towards hunting?

I thought this a rather odd thing to say:

“You know, I’m a hunter. I’m a Democrat, but I hunt deer. I know I’m not supposed to as a Democrat, but I do,” he said.

Who said he's not supposed to? Is that that stated somewhere in the party platform?

[Eleanors38]

5. My opinion regarding your question:

Some animal welfare groups have wormed their way into the Democratic Party elites and MSM, much like gun controller/banners. The result is to cast a stereotype that Democrats and liberals are anti-hunting and anti-gun. The political consequences of this stereotype have been widely discussed, here and elsewhere.

[ileus]

2. 50 state CC reciprocity....there's the true progressive solution.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. CNS News? Does that mean conservative sources are permissable in your eyes?

Like a box of cereal, the prize is at the bottom --

However, the governor also noted that much of the gun violence in America occurs between rival drug dealers.

“A lot of our gun deaths are related to drug dealing. Let’s be honest about this. So yeah, we need a 50-state solution. No question about it. And I think both rural and urban Democrats agree about that,” added Shumlin, who has served six years as governor of the Green Mountain State.

Shumlin, who was elected to his first two-year term as governor in 2010, signed into law a bill last May imposing restrictions on gun ownership in Vermont.

The following month, he announced he was not running for reelection.

[Eleanors38]

6. "Conservative sources" are always permissable when they support gun control. nt

It seems our robo-dumper is fairly a-gush with conservative sources today.

[beevul]

4. Wasn't "the middle ages"...

Wasn't "the middle ages" a time period when those with weapons ran roughshod over those without?

I can just imagine taking todays debate back to those times, and applying it to swords:

"Whats the difference between a regular sword and an assault sword?"


"How will taking the swords we use to defend ourselves with improve our situation when the criminal element come to our doors making demands on our lives and property, and often our wives and children?"



I personally consider mandated disarmament an affront to human rights and basic human decency.

[Eleanors38]

7. Noting the main strategy of banners has for decades been a "50-state solution."

Maybe they still think it is the easiest path to take, even though everyone has a good idea how that approach has worked out.

In the mean time, any state-by-state approaches have been the road less and less traveled.