Chicago Tribune: Obama has been Pro Second Amendment!

Gun Watch ^ | 20 November, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Steve Chapman is a writer for the Chicago Tribune. He has often written about gun legislation. He stands out at the Tribune as a voice that recognizes reality more often then most.  His writing and viewpoints have been a reasonable voice crying in the wilderness of Chicago.

Unfortunately, he lives in the fantasy bubble of current Progressivism. It is evident in his recent column excoriating the NRA.  He buys into the leftist propaganda without introspection or examination of facts. It is an opinion column, but opinions should have a basis in reality. From chicagotribune.com:

As a gun owner, recreational shooter, former NRA member and longtime advocate of Second Amendment rights, I like to see cogent criticism of gun control proposals and anti-gun propaganda. But under President Barack Obama, the NRA has occupied itself sowing groundless panic and fighting imaginary villains.

Obama made it plain in his first presidential campaign that gun control was not a hill he was willing to die on. He assured gun owners, "I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away."  

He fails to point out that President Obama is famous for his prevarications. Why would anyone believe President Obama's promises about future actions any more than his promises about "keeping your doctor, if you want to", "keeping your plan if you like it" or the famous "saving $2,500 a year on your insurance premiums"?  Should we forget the "red line" in Syria? Yes, bringing in Second Amendment supporters was important for him to win the White House. Gee.  He lied.

Chapman admits that President Obama pushed for ending the manufacturing and sale of "assault weapons".  That happens to include the most popular rifle in the country.  Chapman admits that President Obama pushed to ban magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition.  That would be hundreds of millions of the most popular magazines in the country, for scores of millions of rifles and pistols. Chapman admits that President Obama pushed extraordinarily hard for "universal background checks".  Chapman does not mention that he only pushed for the bill that required that firearm serial numbers and personal information be permanently recorded on federal forms. A bill for universal background checks that protected personal privacy, to prevent universal gun registration, was killed by the President's allies in Congress.

Chapman lumps all these actions as insignificant.  He uses this phrase:

"These changes would have a minimal impact on law-abiding gun owners."

That is Steve Chapman's opinion. Millions of American gun owners beg to differ.

Chapman points out that President Obama signed bills that restored the right to bear arms in national parks, forbade the EPA to ban lead bullets, and prevented Amtrack from banning the transport of unloaded guns on its trains. He conveniently fails to mention that all of those measures were included as unwelcome riders on omnibus bills that President Obama desperately wanted to sign.

President Obama never championed those measures, never lobbied for their inclusion, never supported them at all.  Then, after they became law, he has tried to take credit for them.

Champman conveniently fails to mention President Obama's long held antipathy toward general gun ownership, most clearly stated in his remarks to John Lott at the University of Chicago.

Chapman is delusional here.  He lives in the liberal fantasy world of the establishment media and their fake news bubble.
 

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[marktwain]

To believe this, you have to be in the "progressive" bubble, and you have to believe what President Obama says, uncritically.

[arthurus]

Anyone who proposes regulations/infringements is ipso facto anti 2Amd.

[Fai Mao]

I think it is fair to say that The Obamanation of Desolation was less anti 2nd amendment than we feared and better than PIAPS would be.

[digger48]

Once he got done with the highly likely lie in his first sentence, the rest just came easy

[867V309]

Obama made it plain in his first presidential campaign that gun control was not a hill he was willing to die on. He assured gun owners, "I believe in the Second Amendment. I believe in people's lawful right to bear arms. I will not take your shotgun away. I will not take your rifle away. I won't take your handgun away."

barkie is 100% liar, so what does this matter? You can keep your health plan...

[digger48]

Only because we neutered him in 2010.

Pelosi blew a chance to enact a lot of liberal fantasies by focusing only on making healthcare unaffordable

[SandRat]

Obama has been Pro Second Amendment!

BULL, SH**!

[xp38]

A textbook case of pissing on my leg and telling me it’s raining.

[lp boonie]

What he missed in his article is how Obama was one of the best gun salesmen this country has ever seen. He was exceptional.

[marktwain]

What he missed in his article is how Obama was one of the best gun salesmen this country has ever seen. He was exceptional.

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Best in the World. Ever. By a long shot.

Better than Hitler.

Better than Stalin.

Better than Mao.

The most enormously successful gun salesman on the planet, for all time, no one else even comes close!

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/09/us-will-reach-400-million-private.html

[Theoria]

Some of the things that I can think of is the fact that he didn't veto the expansion of guns in National Parks and putting guns in your checked luggage on AMTRAK trains.

Two things Bush never expanded. That's not saying much.

[marsmanmd]

Please! This is not for real. Give me Sandy Hook”.....many more

[Jet Jaguar]

Fast and Furious failed and he was found out.

[GregoTX]

"Chapman admits that President Obama pushed for ending the manufacturing and sale of "assault weapons". That happens to include the most popular rifle in the country. Chapman admits that President Obama pushed to ban magazines that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. That would be hundreds of millions of the most popular magazines in the country, for scores of millions of rifles and pistols. "

How is THAT pro-2nd Amendment... that is anti-2nd Amendment!

[SuperLuminal]

",,,The Obamanation of Desolation was less anti 2nd amendment than we feared..."

Only to the extent that he could protect the huge stockpiles of weapons and ammo in every mosque in the U.S. and the moslem terrorist-training communities/camps located throughout the U.S.

The ragheads being forcefully inserted into American communities across the Nation are the intended users of those weapons and ammo.

This will not have a good outcome...obunghole is buying mansions all over the country to which he will retreat and proclaim:

"Mission accomplished!"

[hal ogen]

I wouldn’t soil the bottom of my bird’s cage with this freak rag. What a waste of trees.

[ealgeone]

I’m always leary of people when I see these “thoughtful” nuanced looking poses.

[William Tell]

What a worthless pile of garbage.

Do the names Kagan and Sotomayor ring a bell?

[Stanwood_Dave]

Opinion's are like a "gluteus maximus," every body has one, and some (opinion's) stink worst than others.

Yours Stink's to high haven, or in the alternative, Yes it's indubitably obvious, even to the most casual observer, you are infected with Cranium Rectal Disorder, and in need of a Glass-Ectomy.

A Glass-Ectomy is when you cut your bellybutton out and put a piece of glass in there so when you have your head up your a$$/arse, you can see where you’re going.

[Blue Collar Christian]

“What he missed in his article is how Obama was one of the best gun salesmen this country has ever seen. He was exceptional.”

Actually he tried to blame that on NRA fear mongering.