Andrea Joy Campbell: “I have to tell you, Mr. President, I had a good laugh with him, but this is not about cowboys and Indians. This is about…”

“I have to tell you, Mr. President, I had a good laugh with him, but this is not about cowboys and Indians. This is about real families. Some happen to be Indians, who are cowboys, by the way. Anybody who knows the ranch lifestyle out West knows that ranchers grew up with guns. They learn how to use them from childhood, and they get good with them. They use them for protection and for hunting. I guess the first thing they learn about guns is that you try to hit what you aim at. I have to tell you, I admire my colleague from Arkansas and, certainly, Senator Jeffords, too, but they are not going to hit what they are aiming at. As I understand both of their amendments, it is like hunting a wolf that gets in your lambs or your calves with a shotgun. You may get the wolf, but with a scatter-gun approach, you get everything else, too. I believe Senator Bumpers' amendment and Senator Jeffords', too, is really aimed at corporate freeloaders. But by putting everybody in the same category, it is certainly going to hit ranchers that are full-time ranchers, with no other income except ranching. I think that is a very sad mistake. I think they should both be opposed. To put them in the same category is simply not fair.”