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Gun stance costly

Mon., Jan. 2, 2017

Did Hillary Clinton’s pathological hatred for the Second Amendment cost her the presidency?

In his autobiography, Bill Clinton wrote that the Democrats lost control of Congress in 1994 because of their support for gun control. Clinton also wrote that the NRA was responsible for Al Gore’s failed presidential campaign because of their influence in Tennessee, Arkansas, West Virginia and several other states.

Anti-gun politicians need to remember the words of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto who famously said, after Pearl Harbor, “I fear that what we’ve done will only awaken a sleeping giant.”

Curt Stone

Dayton, Washington

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