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Robin Carnahan’s shameless 2nd Amendment deception

June 29, 2010

Runs away from radical anti-gun record

Robin Carnahan has gained notoriety for attempting to scrub her biography and record in a vain attempt to fool Missourians into forgetting her liberal history.  But this week, Carnahan sunk to a new low—pretending to favor the Supreme Court’s new ruling on guns, despite her history as an anti-Second Amendment crusader.

“The same Robin Carnahan who led the campaign to take guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens cannot now pretend to support the 2^nd Amendment,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party. “Carnahan and her liberal allies consistently opposed the Second Amendment constitutional freedom of Missourians, but now she is working overtime to obscure her past and misrepresent her positions.  Her dishonesty will not change the fact that she is an anti-gun liberal.”

After the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling this week to protect Second Amendment freedom, Carnahan issued a brief statement, reported in the St Louis Beacon, claiming to support the Second Amendment and saying that the Court ruling is correct.

But Carnahan’s brand new position on the 2^nd Amendment is a dramatic turnaround from her history as a passionate anti-gun crusader.

Carnahan led the 1999 effort against Proposition B, which would have given law-abiding Missourians the right to carry.  And for years, she remained unapologetic about her anti-gun work.  As recently as 2002, Carnahan bragged, “I helped defeat that and I’m proud of it.” (Post-Dispatch, October 30, 2002)  The same Post-Dispatch article noted that Carnahan’s participation in the anti-gun campaign had become a liability to her mother’s campaign for U.S. Senate: “But at the Democratic Party office in downtown Independence, there was a hint that Robin could be a campaign liability. Juanita Howe, 77, a volunteer, told Robin that several people on her get-out-the-vote call list have asked about Robin’s work for gun control.”

This is not the first time Carnahan has obscured her past.  Earlier this year, she was caught scrubbing her biography to any reference as an ‘executive’ at the government-run Export-Import Bank in Washington, DC.  And she has repeatedly refused to discuss her work or her clients at her trade consulting business, Global Ventures, LLC, which she operated for nearly a decade and a half.