Obama and gun control

SuperBeetle wrote:Disarming the Obama Administration

"As President, I will uphold the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun-owners, hunters, and sportsmen. I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne." That was Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on June 26, 2008, responding to the Supreme Court's landmark decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, which struck down Washington, DC's draconian handgun ban and held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms—not a collective one.

"I have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals," Obama went on, "but I also identify with the need for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective safety measures."

While it wasn't exactly a ringing endorsement of the decision, Obama's statement was an improvement over his previous equivocations. But that line about Chicago and Cheyenne definitely stood out. Chicago, after all, has a gun ban in place that's just as constitutionally dubious as the one struck down in Heller. Indeed, Alan Gura, the attorney who successfully argued Heller before the Court, is now working on the challenge to the Windy City law.

So last week's announcement that President-elect Obama has tapped outspoken gun control advocate Eric Holder to serve as his attorney general should come as something less than a complete shock. Holder, who served as deputy attorney general under President Bill Clinton and as acting attorney general under President George W. Bush (a position he held until John Ashcroft was confirmed), has pushed for sweeping and restrictive gun control measures throughout his career while also endorsing the now-discredited collective rights interpretation of the Second Amendment. Obama's selection of Holder raises some serious concerns about his administration's commitment to upholding the entire Bill of Rights.

e.alleg wrote:Like I said before, gun control doesn't stop crime. Maybe they should take all the inner city crackheads out of Chicago and then see what happens to the crime rate.

Devil505 wrote:I have videos of Obama deliberately starting the brush fires in California too! (& does he have an alibi for the night that OJ's wife was killed???...I think not!! )

Heish1 wrote:
1-20-2012 the end of an Error.

Poconoeagle wrote:You mean you cant have the 100 rd beta c mag full of 223 AP over up thar 30 miles away? If so facto thier gonna have to do a bunch of pryin from cold dead hands.....

ErikLaurence wrote:

Heish1 wrote:
1-20-2012 the end of an Error.

Not to nit pick, but it would be 2013 not 2012.