Now we've moved into the gun portion of the evening -- three in a row. The first questioner prefaces his question with, "As in every small town, we like our big guns." Funny, I'm from a very tiny town, and not so much into the guns. Another questioner asks the candidates to talk about their gun collections.
This seems to be another area where Giuliani isn't quite lined up with the Republican base. He says that "the govermnet can impose reasonable regulations" on gun ownership, and cities criminal background and mental instability as good reasons to regulate gun ownership. "States can have leeway" in making their own rules, he continued. Here's where the former mayor of the biggest city in the country may never be able to see eye-to-eye with small-town gun-lovers.
--Kate Sheppard
