Rudy Misfires

Though I'm generally supportive of Rudy Giuliani's run for the Republican nomination, he's showing himself to be particularly tone deaf on a few issues.  Gun control is one.

Rudy Giuliani addressed a potentially troublesome issue with conservative voters, saying his policies as mayor to get handguns off the street helped reduce crime in New York.

"I used gun control as mayor," he said at a news conference Saturday during a swing through California. But "I understand the Second Amendment. I understand the right to bear arms."

He said what he did as mayor would have no effect on hunting.

Both Giuliani and Mitt Romney come across as nothing but big-time city slickers when they address the 2nd Amendment as a hunting protection statute.  Most of us are not at all concerned with hunting.  We just want to be able to defend ourselves and our families.  If an intruder breaks into our homes, we won't settle for cowering in a closet like the Brits and Canadians -- defenseless -- until the police show up.  Until they get that through their pointy, little, urban heads, they're not going to make much headway with conservatives.