Apparently McCain voted for the eventual passage of the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act after it had the assault weapons language attached to it. I hadn’t seen that one before. I knew he voted against the assault weapons ban amendment, but because he managed to get his gun show language on the bill, he voted for its eventual passage. I guess his gun show bill was important enough to him to overcome his principles on assault weapons.
This is another reason to not be excited about McCain, but as I said in the comments, I have to play the cards that came out of the deck, and it’s a crap hand. I’ll take the guy who’s with me half the time to the guy who will never be with me. Sure, there is a point where even I’m going to stay home, or vote third party, but McCain doesn’t quite get there for me (though, he’s precipitously close — his veep choice is important)
Remember folks, we got 5-4 on a .38 revolver. If we want that to be the extent of the right recognized by the courts, letting Obama remake the federal courts is a great way to get there. McCain might nominate bad judges too, but he might get some good ones. His selection committee has a lot of quality conservative legal minds on it, and I have a lot more faith that we’ll get better judges out of McCain than Obama, and to me, that’s the most important thing this time around on the domestic front.
