Posted on 04/03/2008 10:57:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Barack Obama is embracing anti-gun policies in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings.
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
These remarks break from Obama’s previous moderate rhetoric on gun control.
While campaigning in Idaho in February, Obama promised, “I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.”
Obama elaborated later that month in a political forum sponsored by ABC News and the Politico. He said: “I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respects the Second Amendment and people's traditions."
Obama’s tough talk on gun control may be prompted by Philadelphia-based Democratic leaders who are pressuring Clinton and Obama to adopt harder stances on gun control. This issue is expected to come up in ABC News’ Democratic debate on April 16 in Philadelphia. 32 people were shot to death on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho April 16, 2007.
Obama’s new hardline liberal position differs from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and GOP candidate John McCain, who both are for concealed-carry.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said in a statement Obama should apologize and revise his stance. “Barack Obama ignorantly believes that legally-armed Americans are as reckless and irresponsible as the criminals with whom his political sympathies evidently law,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “He has been insisting for months he supports the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, but here he is now campaigning in Pennsylvania, stating essentially he would prefers Americans not exercise that right.”
35. Do you support legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of
a. handguns?
While a complete ban on handguns is not politically practicable, I believe reasonable restrictions on the sale and possession of handguns are necessary to protect the public safety. In the Illinois Senate last year, I supported a package of bills to limit individual Illinoisans to purchasing one handgun a month; require all promoters and sellers at firearms shows to carry a state license; allow civil liability for death or injuries caused by handguns; and require FOID applicants to apply in person. I would support similar efforts at the federal level, including retaining the Brady Law.
b. assault weapons?
Yes.
c. ammunition for handguns and assault weapons?
I would support banning the sale of ammunition for assault weapons and limiting the sale of ammunition for handguns.
36. Do you support legislation
a. mandating background checks of purchasers of weapons at gun shows, through the internet and through print advertisements?
Yes.
b. increasing penalties for illegal resale of weapons?
Yes.
37. a. Should funding for the Legal Services Corporation be increased?
Yes.
b. What restrictions, if any, should Congress enact or repeal regarding the scope of federally funded legal services for the poor?
Congress should repeal restrictions that, among other things, prevent or discourage advocates for the poor from initiating class actions and other types of lawsuits that give meaningful redress for widespread grievances.
I also have no problem with open carry.
My dead cold fingers, Obama.
He just lost the election................
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This may cost him the union vote. He just touched the third rail.
“While a complete ban on handguns is not politically practicable...”
So, to answer the question - he WOULD try to ban handguns. It just isn’t “politically practicable” [at this time].
Nope. Just line up and be shot like good little sheep.
More criminals would get shot during altercations, is more like it.
And those folks with illegal handguns...are just gonna turn them in too.
Idiot....
Pander Bear!
Do you think that this will be heard though? Most people will never hear his true feelings at all, they might hear his doublespeak during one of the debates with McCain but I don’t think this will be page one in any of the MSM papers or newscasts.
OK, 0’bambi, put your money where your mouth is. How about you tell your SS detail not to carry?
It’s hard to bear arms, if you can’t carry them. Obama is an idiot, an idiot who can’t understand the concept of the 2nd Amendment, private property or freedom.
I guarantee this piece of trash, called a candidate to dupe the masses, has well-armed guards, but of course, not for the little people. The more I see this scum bucket the more I dislike his fraudulent claims of knowing anything. The other side of the bottom-of-the-barrel truly has been penetrated to reach a low-life like B Hussein Obama
Well sure, everybody knows one of the first things criminals do after they obtain an “illegal handgun” is to register for a CCW license.
Why, it’s just common sense that’s what they do.
(If the reader cannot determine the level of sarcasm in that reply, no sarcasm notice I could add here would help.)
Osama Obama is going to lose PA in a landslide now.
THOSE (the gang) were the “innocent” people whom he does not want to see get hurt in “altercations”.
Amazing that all those big, tough Union members vote Democrat.
I was thinking the same thing, though.
silly you..don’t you know by now that issues don’t matter?? if you don’t vote for him for whatever reason, you’re a racist, pure and simple../s
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
So, I guess his SS detail doesn’t carry, right? I mean, that atmosphere could be created by anyone if it’s the gun causing the creation of it,,,,
Geeesh
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune.”
No Muslim is, especially when they’re outnumbered 99 to 1.
About 45% of business union members vote Republican. Been true for many decades.
And yet there are still those who would pull a lever for Obama ... incredible
Does he need a red star on a mink hat? Would that be enough? We’re only up to reason 9,992 not to vote for this clown nor give him any boost towards the White House
I dunno if Obama knows it or not, but a whole lot of those “under 30” types know more about self protection and concealed carry than he’ll ever know...........both legal and illegal.....
I've heard this figure bandied about for years. I seem to remember that this was from the 1984 or 1988 election, but that said figure has dropped since then.
If you look at the counties in NY, NJ, and PA that have a high concentration of blue collar workers, you will see that such areas are the most Democratic in those states outside of the ghettoes.
....typical black guy.
That should have been the follow on question. So if you do not support CONCEALED carry, do you support OPEN carry?
If McCain looses, it will be his own damned fault.
The statement shows total Ignorance...
He concludes that it is the weapon being concealed that kills...
Obviously he took the short bus to his muslim school, unless he expects the ignorant public (US) to believe that Bad guys carrying guns don’t already conceal them....
How many times must these liberal gun grabbers be told that it is not the gun that kills people... It is the bad people that kill other people... and if you make it illegal for good and responsible people to carry guns it will do nothing at all to stop the bad people from killing the good people with their illegal concealed guns.
We need to make sure it's not Obama, either.
Then we need to stop McCain.
Not if Philadelphia and Pittsburgh have the expected 105% voter turnout.
Obama! Kiss my ass. I’ll carry concealed when and where I like.
I tried explaining this to a liberal relative. It is utterly hopeless and useless to do so. In their world, everybody is happy and peaceful until a gun comes along and ruins everything. “Get rid of the guns and nobody will die.” is their line of twisted “logic”. Talking to one of them is like arguing with a two year old......
We're screwed no matter which one of them gets elected.
You could buy a Senate seat..........
Yep.
Please keep talking Obama!
I think you are probably right. The number is from the decades of Nixon and Reagan and is probably not true anymore.
The union guys I know seem to have taken on Socialism as their guiding light. Much of the Marxist leadership of the 60’s has ended up in union administration and it really shows.
Bookmark for ammunition. - BTTT
Here's the source. In a shall issue concealed carry state, no less, my prayers are getting answered!
ping
Hmm maybe he has one of those stereotype mentalities you know like all white people carrying concealed guns are out to shoot black people...
One can never know how much influence Jeramiah Wright’s hate whitey sermons have actually had on this man.
“I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.”
Liberal word parsing means but if laws are enacted that result in taking away your guns those were unintentional results of the laws...
Taking away our Liberties one at a time.
Don’t underestimate this Obama cult - get the info out to your family and friends
And no McCain ain’t exactly helping himself or us on a near-daily basis - I pray he picks a decent VP ... but I ain’t holding my breath
“I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
Why do you think that??????
Concealed carry is legal many places, so there should be DATA to either confirm or deny what you “think”!!!!!
But, as with most liberal lies, reality is inconvenient, so they just make stuff up!!
:}
He probably thinks that it is the dead white guy's fault. If it hadn't been for him, those poor gang bangers wouldn't be in trouble now!
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