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New Brady Bunch Boss

The Brady Bunch has a new -- Republican -- chief. From WISH TV:

FORT WAYNE, Ind. Former Fort Wayne Mayor Paul Helmke is to become president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, one the country's most prominent anti-gun groups.

The group is to formally make that announcement today, making the three-term Republican mayor a G-O-P advocate for what it typically seen as a Democratic stance.

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Jim Brady's wife, Sarah, says Helmke's Republican credentials were an asset and could help build a consensus of support on the issue.

Helmke says gun control is a public safety issue and shouldn't be considered solely a political matter. Helmke was the Republican nominee for U-S Senate in 1998, but lost to Democrat Evan Bayh.

Paul Helmke, newly hired president of the main group advocating some restrictions on gun sales and ownership, doesn’t think the Second Amendment demands a totally hands-off approach by the government.

The amendment, he said, “starts out ‘a well regulated militia.’ It obviously contemplates some sort of regulation. We see the need for balance in the First Amendment even though it quite clearly says Congress shall make no law (abridging the freedom of speech or of the press). But then we talk about libel, obscenity, don’t yell fire in a crowded theater, national security.

“We have a Fourth Amendment and other amendments that talk about due process and search and seizure yet we say that at times of national security, there’s got to be some balancing.

“Clearly when you’re talking about a well-regulated whatever, you’ve got to use some common sense,” he said.

Anyway, sounds like this flunky, a RINO, will simply bring more of the same blather the Brady Bunch is already known for. Manipulated statistics from unidentified sources, calls for another AWB, handgun bans, etc. Never met a gun control measure they didn't find to be "sensible"...