Politics: Leopards never really change their spots, I suppose

The CNN-Youtube Democratic Debate recently was pretty blah - all the questions were filtered anyway, so there was none of the impromptu anarchy present in the real World Wide Web. Most telling for the purposes of this blog was the question on gun control. Watch Richardson and Biden respond:



Bill Richardson is representative of the "new look" Dems who realize tighter gun restrictions cost votes while never really gaining them anything in return. He stays away from calling for any more bans, which is refreshing and better than a certain Republican candidate. Of course, he has no real shot at the nomination.

Biden's response, which garnered applause from the crowd, is disturbing. The gun owner here was obviously hamming it up a bit when he referred to his AR-15 as his baby (engaging in a bit of misdirection - "it's for the children" is the usual refrain of the gun grabbers), but Biden's first instinct is to trivialize him and question his sanity. Seems he supports another so-called "assault weapons" ban, along with Feinstein and her ilk. Does Biden talk for the Democratic party leadership? It seems so, at least to me.