As conservatives try to push Colorado legislator Joe Salazar’s (D) comments about rape during a gun control debate into the national spotlight, one of the most powerful names in gun control came to his defense, even as it called his statement “inartful.”“If some legislators spent as much time learning about how weak gun laws endanger our daughters as they spend yammering about Salazar’s inartful comment”, all of our kids would safer,” said Mark Glaze, director of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the gun control group founded by New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. “While he was voting for a policy that will save lives, they were taking dictation from the NRA’s Washington lobbyists. I know which position will be easier to defend in 2014.”
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