lily
09-20-2007, 10:28 PM
I sure do wish him luck with this! (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/19/AR2007091902200.html?wpisrc=newsletter):lmao:
Giuliani Seeking Support From NRA
GOP Presidential Candidate to Address Group He Once Likened to 'Extremists'
By Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 20, 2007; Page A04
Rudolph W. Giuliani will go before the rank and file of the National Rifle
Association on Friday, seeking support for his Republican presidential
campaign from a group he once likened to "extremists" for its efforts to
repeal the ban on assault weapons.
But even as the former New York mayor strives to burnish his Second
Amendment credentials at the gathering in Washington, a panel of federal
judges in his home town will be hearing arguments on the lawsuit that
Giuliani filed seven years ago aimed at punishing the nation's gun
manufacturers for violent crimes involving firearms.
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Announcing the lawsuit in 2000, then-Mayor Giuliani wrote in his weekly
column about issues facing the city that "this is an industry which profits
from the suffering of innocent people. The lawsuit is intended to end the
free pass that the gun industry has enjoyed for a very long time, which has
resulted in too many avoidable deaths."
He called the lawsuit "an aggressive step towards restoring accountability
to an industry that profits from the suffering of others." The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 2nd Circuit will decide whether the lawsuit -- against Colt,
Glock, Smith & Wesson and others -- can move forward despite federal
legislation that attempted to grant immunity to the companies.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani's presidential campaign yesterday declined to say
whether he still supports the lawsuit or the goals he laid out in 2000.
Giuliani Seeking Support From NRA
GOP Presidential Candidate to Address Group He Once Likened to 'Extremists'
By Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, September 20, 2007; Page A04
Rudolph W. Giuliani will go before the rank and file of the National Rifle
Association on Friday, seeking support for his Republican presidential
campaign from a group he once likened to "extremists" for its efforts to
repeal the ban on assault weapons.
But even as the former New York mayor strives to burnish his Second
Amendment credentials at the gathering in Washington, a panel of federal
judges in his home town will be hearing arguments on the lawsuit that
Giuliani filed seven years ago aimed at punishing the nation's gun
manufacturers for violent crimes involving firearms.
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Announcing the lawsuit in 2000, then-Mayor Giuliani wrote in his weekly
column about issues facing the city that "this is an industry which profits
from the suffering of innocent people. The lawsuit is intended to end the
free pass that the gun industry has enjoyed for a very long time, which has
resulted in too many avoidable deaths."
He called the lawsuit "an aggressive step towards restoring accountability
to an industry that profits from the suffering of others." The U.S. Court of
Appeals for the 2nd Circuit will decide whether the lawsuit -- against Colt,
Glock, Smith & Wesson and others -- can move forward despite federal
legislation that attempted to grant immunity to the companies.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani's presidential campaign yesterday declined to say
whether he still supports the lawsuit or the goals he laid out in 2000.