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.”
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Here's the source. In a shall issue concealed carry state, no less, my prayers are getting answered!
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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.
“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!!
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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!
(sighs) That means a lot of ammo used in everyday purposes. I'll send this to a friend who is a PAC member of one of the state gun groups. He's a walking encyclopedia on 2nd amendment issues and will have all the specifics.
All their experience of guns is from TV and movies, and, as you may notice, in that context, guns are always associated with trouble and somebody dying.
Real life is an antidote. But they aren't lining up to take it.
Well the gun issue lost Ohio for Gore, I can see the same thing happening here.
And you think hillary’s any different? Screw Rush’s stupid “Operation Chaos”, she would be worse than obama if she gets in.
I've known plenty of dem union members who overlook the 2nd amendment. But race may well play a role there too
Blue collar union membership has been in a long decline.
It’s not realistically practical, either.
If the public could defend itself, an important part of his constituency would be out of work or forced to work in unsafe conditions.
What we are seeing is the hate and rage of the Illinois blacks and liberals. When I see these phony liberal Christians it makes me sick.
I get the scoop out on Obama as much as I can. It is amazing how many people don’t even know about the rev. wright. Bastard media!
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