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Posted on 11/09/2008 2:44:27 AM PST by Perseverando
Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:
"Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons." Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet.
"Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at nraila.org ...
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Drunk drivers and medical malpractice kill more people every year than guns do.
Ban alcohol, cars and quacks!
Stupidity kills more than that.
Ban idiots!
This is really a no brain er...how else is he going to retain power.DUH!
Walk!
Take a bike!
Your carbon footprint is killing us all!
Save Earth!
[collect the whole set of planets and win valuable prizes!]
According to Obama, pump action shotguns, rifles that shoot further than 300 yards and handguns shorter than 8 inches will be banned as “assault weapons”.
The house-to-house search by the CNSF will happen after the Iranians blow up Tel Aviv and the Russians invade Eastern Europe once again, Oh and Chavez and Whichever Castro is breathing will co-opt all of So America....
When? I’ll get back to you, have to see how fast we descend into Facism..
You can’t simply declare a law permenant
Walking and biking cause me to emit harmful gases into the atmosphere.
“Walking and biking cause me to emit harmful gases into the atmosphere”.
Especially after eating Mexican Food.
He's only going to ban our guns.
you forgot “fill your tires” on that non-existent car
This guy will be a one termer for sure.He can do a lot of damage in four years.Hopefully the mid terms will limit his power.
Several species just went extinct because of you.
I hope you’re happy.
If we'd had more to spare, we'd have re-upped Second Amendment Sisters and JPFO, but that was all we could manage here.
I urge all member to think on this, well.
You may not get another chance.
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