“And I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms. And we recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation -— that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage…”
Guess I’m just going to have to come out and say this…He’s LYING!!!! Furthermore, he doesn’t get it. This isn’t about hunting and recreational shooting. It’s about protecting the people from a government that has run off the rails and exceeded its authority. From none other than the Associated Press, here’s how Obama has handled gun rights during his notably short political career:
1997-2004: As an Illinois state senator, Obama supports banning all forms of semiautomatic weapons and tighter state restrictions generally on firearms, including a failed effort to limit handgun purchases to one per month.
2005: In the U.S. Senate, Obama votes against protecting firearms makers and dealers from lawsuits over misuse of their products by others. The bill is signed into law by President George W. Bush.
2008: During his first presidential campaign, Obama supports a return to the federal ban on assault weapons, which began during the Clinton administration and expired under Bush. He also endorses requiring background checks for buyers at gun shows. The National Rifle Association attacks him as an anti-gun zealot — a stand the group continues to take today.
2008 was also the year he all but called small town folk a bunch of bitter, knuckle-dragging, Luddites for not getting with his program. Remember that gem in which he said folks get “bitter” and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them…”? Snobbery runs deep in the cesspool known as Chicago.
Here’s my take. The President has never believed in an individual right to bear arms. His beliefs didn’t suddenly change with the DC v Heller decision. He says otherwise now, only because he thinks it is politically prudent given the clear statement from the US Supreme Court that the Second Amendment protects and individual right to keep and bear arms. If Obama truly believed the Second Amendment applied to individuals, he wouldn’t have appointed, let alone defended, Eric Holder. Remember that during the D.C. v Heller case, Holder joined a brief submitted to the Court, in which he and others argued that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right to keep and bear arms. How can one truly believe the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms if they’ve signed their name onto a legal brief that clearly states otherwise?
Amen brother…