Obama and Guns

ABC News ^ | Feb. 15, 2008 | by Jan Crawford Greenburg

[jdm]

Misleading Headline of the Day

by Xrlq @ 6:19 pm

Via Drudge, who offers an equally misleading headline, the Ass. Press announces that:

Obama Supports Individual Gun Rights

RTWT, and tell me how that squares with the last two paragraphs of the article:

At his news conference, he voiced support for the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next month.

“The notion that somehow local jurisdictions can’t initiate gun safety laws to deal with gang bangers and random shootings on the street isn’t born [sic] out by our Constitution,” Obama said.

O-kay.

[OKSooner]

He’s just having it both ways, and his friends in the MSM are helping him out with it.

[Senator Goldwater]

Vote for the GOP nominee.

A Supreme Court majority hangs in the balance.

[EGPWS]

At his news conference, he voiced support for the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next month.

He's a Democrat and a politician to boot, thus he is against the second amendment in it's true form and is being disingenuous for political favor. PERIOD!

[Kirkwood]

Lots of blacks own guns for personal protection and want to keep that right intact. Obama knows to support the 2nd amendment and yet also throw it back onto local communities to make their own gun control laws. It is a win-win for him. He keeps the black supporters happy and throws the anti-gunners a bone.

[eyedigress]

That should be on the mind of every voter. The SCOTUS is in charge for the long term.

[VOR78]

Yeah right.

More likely, he realizes that if he takes a publicly anti-gun stance during this campaign, he’d have very little chance of winning anywhere except on the coasts.

Once he’s in office, well, who cares what the voters think...

[eyedigress]

While I don’t have a littany of falsehoods surrounding the man, the fact that he is a Chicago politician affronts this position. I would have to ask him about the violation of the 2nd in all anti-gun districts.

[VOR78]

There are also a lot of fairly conservative Democrats in the south, in particular, that are strongly pro-gun. He can’t risk alienating them just yet if he wants to win in the fall.

That’s also why you see a few Democratic senators taking a more conservative line on the 2nd amendment. They know that if they want to keep their job, that’s one issue that they can’t cross the line on.

[eyedigress]

It certainly didn’t help spotted-owl gore.

[Mr. Mojo]

...states like New York, which have taken the more orthodox position that the 2nd Amendment only protects a state’s right—and that cities like Washington, D.C. can therefore ban all guns if they choose.

Orthodox socialism, that is.

[padre35]

He already is on record with the typical Lib sop of “I support Hunter’s right to...but...”

As soon as there is a “but” everything said beforehand is meaningless.

[2harddrive]

It WOULD be surprising, if true. But, Barak Hussein Osama is LYING.

[goldfinch]

Not only is Barack Obama lying. The press is helping him spread the lie.

[Bear_Slayer]

Did obamanation suddenly discover the joys of duck hunting?

[Bear_Slayer]

[infidel29]

His global poverty bill in the senate right now calls for US acceptance of UN gun and small weapons ban.

He's trying to have his cake... and a pie as well.

[javachip]

Obama had the opportunity to sign on to a congressional amicus brief in the Heller case arguing that the 2nd is an individual right. He didn't - nuff said.

McCain signed on, Clinton didn't.

[Eastbound]

"Obama knows to support the 2nd amendment and yet also throw it back onto local communities to make their own gun control laws."

These is no such thing as supporting the Second Amendment and then telling the states to decide. It's already settled at the federal level and the states cannot pass any laws which are in conflict with the Constitution. The Second Amendment is part of the Constitution, in case there are some that still don't acknowledge that.

Moreso, because the Second Amendment is mentioned specifically as an amendment not to be infringed as well as a law that states that the Constitution/Bill of Rights is the supreme law in spite of any Thing that the states might try to do concerning the right to keep and bear arms. Without equivocation.

American Citizens have been long-suffering regarding these attempts to immasculate the people. We haven't done anything about it at this late date because we are really curious to see what their end game plan is. Well, maybe just a little more than just curious.