Senator Obama Shoots and Misses

THE MINORITY REPORT ^ | 27 February 2008 | .cnI redruM

[RonF]

If the preamble phrase in the 2nd Amendment (”A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, ...”) means anything, it means that the right of people to keep and bear arms is a function of defense of self and of the State, not of hunting and recreation.

[Travis McGee]

[.cnI redruM]

According to Barack, it’s all indeterminate.

[DMZFrank]

We need to constantly remind the people what the militia in the 2nd amendment is REALLY for..... A citizen body organized for military purposes and by extension, logically equipped with weapons of military utility. Just consider that the founders of our nation had just finished defeating the greatest military power on the planet, thanks in no small part to a citizen militia, armed with military weapons such as the smooth bore Brown Bess musket, and often technologically superior rifled muskets. It is the height of absurdity to think that the second amendment in the Bill of Rights is primarily concerned with shooting bunny rabbits.

If we don’t constantly emphasize the constitutional reasons for the Second Amendment than we shall surely lose it, because hunting, while a worthy enterprise, is too trivial a reason to maintain it has a constitutional protection. We need to emphasize to our hunting bretheren that maintenance of the second amendment’s constitutional rationale serves to protect their rights to continue to own firearms for hunting. But that pupose is subordinate and incidental to it’s primary purpose, quite literally the final check for the preservation of our republic from the depredations of untrammeled tyranny.

[BILL_C]

He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting.

Sen. Obama, when seconds count the police are only minutes away. Do you protect the right of law-abiding Americans to own and use a gun for the purpose of self-defense?

Let me answer for Obama, if I may. The answer is, if you have to ask, means you aren't paying attention. Obama has no idea WHY the 2nd Amendment is in the Constitution, and if he does, it means he's treating us like we're idiots.

First of all, we are all idiots. The Gov't has NO right to regulate firearms but let me list the ways they do.

Obama will do more.

I hope the disjointed reply is as clear as Obama's position. While you try to figure out where he stands, he will finish destroying any rights you now have.

[Ancesthntr]

We need to emphasize to our hunting bretheren that maintenance of the second amendment’s constitutional rationale serves to protect their rights to continue to own firearms for hunting. But that pupose is subordinate and incidental to it’s primary purpose, quite literally the final check for the preservation of our republic from the depredations of untrammeled tyranny.

I would agree, wholeheartedly. Our hunting brethren should also be made aware that the guns, ammo and accessories purchased by non-hunters (i.e. target shooters and those interested in self defense and defense of liberty) help to spread the fixed costs and lower the cost of their hobby, and also results in more dealers being available to sell to them.

IOW (to quote Ben Franklin), either we all hang together, or surely we will all hang separately.