Posted on 08/31/2008 9:19:54 AM PDT by pissant
Obama knows he’s weak on guns. Real weak. He’s setting up a bunch of “lifelong Republicans” and astroturf Zumbos* like the American Hunters’ Arms Are For Hugging to vouch for him, but he’s not fooling anybody who doesn’t want to be fooled.
Least of all a former-liberal scholar named John Lott, who knows quite a bit about the social science of the Second Amendment and zeroes in on the candidate’s evasions:
A candidate questionnaire shows that Mr. Obama supported a ban on handguns in 1996. In 1998, he backed a ban on the sale of all semiautomatic guns (a ban that would encompass the vast majority of guns sold in the U.S.) In 2004, he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park (essentially a ban on all guns sold in almost all the states). Possibly, even more importantly, he served on the board of the Joyce Foundation, probably the largest private funder of anti-gun and pro-ban groups and research in the country.
The Obama campaign “flatly denied” the 1996 statement supporting a ban on handguns, blaming it instead on a staffer from his state senate race who they said had incorrectly filled out the candidate questionnaire. But the Politico obtained a copy of the statement and found Mr. Obama’s own handwritten notes on it indicating that he had personally checked and corrected answers.
Me, I’m waiting for the inevitable shooting-related Obama photo-op somewhere that will prove he’s really a common, well-grounded fellow who knows his breech from his muzzle. What will it be? Duck hunting? Skeet? Rimfire rifles with the Boy Scouts? Whatever it is, the photoshoppers are gearing up…
And whatever it is, I hope the injuries are minimal.
*haven’t heard the term “Zumbo”? Here you go.
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What?
Was BHO at Spiveys Corner for the contest this year?
Dang, must have missed him.
blaming it instead on a staffer?
Won’t work on people who still have brains.
This anti-Constitutional fraud needs some testosterone shots....
That questionaire had some notes that Obama had handwritten on the front page on it.
He is no friend of the 2nd amendment, no matter how many Jim Zumbos they care to trot out into the Obamao’s presence.
McCAIN/PALIN.. THE CHANGE AMERICA WANTS
Obama’s gun sympathies are with the illegally gun-toting auxiliaries who aren’t bound by laws. Its analogous to all Fascist/Communist playbooks, where the armed underclass spreads fear and disorder, looting the bourgeoisie. With the easy polices on criminals, exemplified by affirmative action for the prisons (i.e., if there’s too many minorities on death row, the courts are at fault), its easy to see the parallels. He only wants YOUR guns. Just like the Chechens were for the Russians in Georgia, the underclass are his implicit auxiliaries.
“he advocated banning gun sales within five miles of a school or park”
Because, after all, we have a huge problem with school and park gun violence. If a nut job can’t buy a gun within 5 miles of his target, well, he’ll just stay home.
Leftwing nutjob.
So then Obama lied.
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