It's Obamassiah's "Willie Horton Moment", or his "Dukakis In The Tank" moment of this 2008 election!
Posted on 06/30/2008 5:53:45 PM PDT by Libloather
“Obama’s alleged support of the Second Amendment is utterly cynical and false.”
April 13th, 2008 by Bruno Behrend
So says the NRA, and they are 100% correct. The above headline is from one of their recent blast e-mails, and I must say that I endorse their view in this situation.
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To understand Barack Obama on the Second Amendment, you have to know about the clash of character between the then-Chicago state senator and an ordinary citizen who exercised his right to armed self-defense in violation of a local gun ban.
That citizen was a 52-year-old resident of Wilmette, Illinois, who, on Dec. 28, 2003, woke to find that, during the night, his home had been invaded by a career criminal; a thief who stole household items, keys and the homeowner’s car. The victim, Hale DeMar, described his fear in a letter to the Chicago Sun- Times: “For me, the seconds until I found my children still safely tucked in their beds were horrifying . . . The police were called and in routine fashion they came, took the report and with little concern left, promising to increase surveillance. Little comfort, since the invader now had keys to our home and our automobiles. The police informed me that this was not an uncommon event in east Wilmette and offered their condolences . . .” Not 24 hours after the first burglary, the thief returned. Using DeMar’s house keys, the man entered the home, this time setting off the alarm system, automatically notifying the security company. Given the previous night’s lackluster response by police, DeMar was prepared, armed with a handgun–legally purchased years before and kept in a safe. But under Wilmette’s gun ban, that firearm in the home was illegal.
DeMar confronted the criminal, and believing his children were in danger, shot the burglar, who then fled the home.
“Until you are shocked by a piercing alarm in the middle of the night and met in your kitchen by a masked invader as your children shudder in their beds, until you confront that very real nightmare, please don’t suggest that some village trustee knows better … “If my actions have spared only one family from the distress and trauma that this habitual criminal has caused hundreds of others, then I have served my civic duty and taken one evil creature off of our streets, something that our impotent criminal justice system had failed to do, despite some thirty odd arrests, plea bargains and suspended sentences.” The burglar, who was arrested after driving DeMar’s stolen SUV to a hospital, had an extensive criminal record.
Cook County prosecutors ultimately declared DeMar’s use of a firearm to be justified. But Wilmette village officials pressed nonetheless to prosecute him for illegal possession of his handgun–a charge punishable by a huge fine and jail time. A town official was quoted in Reason magazine saying, “We need to set the example that we’re trying to protect our citizens.” And he said, DeMar–by possessing a legally purchased handgun–“is endangering innocent civilians.” The outcry of the Illinois public was heard all the way to the state capitol.
As a result, the Illinois House and Senate passed legislation in May 2004 to protect citizens who use handguns in self-defense in their homes or businesses despite local handgun bans.
The House accepted the DeMar selfdefense bill by a vote of 86-25 and the Senate moved the legislation on a 38-20 vote.
And here lies the seminal moment for state Senator Barack Obama. When Obama turned thumbs down on the bill, he voted against the most basic element of the Second Amendment– the right of defense of self and family– the reason that millions of Americans own firearms.
When the governor vetoed the bill, Obama once again voted against a citizen’s right to self-defense. Despite his vote, the veto override passed the Senate and the House by overwhelming majorities, thereby enacting this bill into law.
Now, fast forward to today’s slippery oratory of U.S. Sen. Barack Obama just three years from being an unknown state senator–now morphed by the media into a spellbinding u.s. senator seeking to be president of the United States.
Using words like “protecting sportsmen,” Obama is now saying that he believes in the Second Amendment … but with almost universal exceptions, all of which he lists under the heading of “common sense gun safety laws.” “Common sense gun safety” and the Second Amendment? Like endorsing the D.C. gun ban, which outlaws armed self-defense in the home–now being challenged before the u.s. Supreme Court. Obama, who as president would be in the position to nominate justices to that high court, has declared that the d.c. ban doesn’t violate the Second Amendment.
A few past FR threads -
FREEP: Gun Rights Poll on Hale DeMar, Wilmette, IL Self Defense Gun User being prosecuted
Judge dismisses DeMar challenge in gun case
How can you protect your citizens by disarming them?
Next it will be "common sense speech safety laws".
Mark my words.
It seems the new Obama keeps running into the old Obama's voting record or lack thereof.
Nothing like a paper-trial to document one's core beliefs.
Is that anything like the RAT "common sense plan to lower gas prices"? I'm still waiting, and waiting, and waiting...
The NRA needs to put this into a 30 or 60 second commercial and show it in battleground states, especially Pennsylvania.
What Obama hasn’t done is more than sufficient to disqualify him for the presidency. What he has done is more than ample to make people very afraid should he ever gain the office.
ping.
It's Obamassiah's "Willie Horton Moment", or his "Dukakis In The Tank" moment of this 2008 election!
Wayne LaPierre was a guest on Laura Ingraham's return to the radio airwaves today. He mentioned the plight of Hale Demar. A Google search took it from there.
OBAMBI: “That’s not the Hale Demar I used to know!”
“That’s not the gun control law I used to know!”
“That’s not the 2nd Amendment I used to know!”
Bang!
I don’t think the average American realizes just how dangerous Obambi is for America. Just to think of the kind of people he would nominate to federal judgeships is terrifying.
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Great post potlatch!
I want that T-Shirt!
I got that in email. It has no name on it at all. I wouldn’t doubt they make a T-shirt like that - somewhere.
I could look up just the words plus T-shirt and see.
Isn’t that called the Fairness Doctrine?
No need to wait any further, because Obama's the one you've been waiting for. :-)
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