Posted on 10/31/2008 1:59:07 PM PDT by IDRATHERNOT
In Sep. 2004 interview with NPR, in response to question if he still supports earlier statements about a Federal Ban on concealed carry laws. His direct quote (minus some stuttering): "I continue to support a ban on concealed carry laws."
Full audio (Campaign Notebook: Obama on Guns & Crime) in Real Audio Format Link to Real Audio
Condensed Quote on Youtube: Youtube
We have been getting multiple anti-Obama postcards on the topic of gun rights in Wisconsin.
Funny how these libs think their lives are worth more than ours. Damn him straight to hell. He does not deserve more protection than any other citizen.
“These idiotic rules against CCW’s are written for nice people in well guarded zones who laugh and chatter and enjoy their little jokes at cocktail parties, but here in the hard world where sh** happens fast and the blood gathers in pools in lakes on the wet pavement, without the gun you are just roadkill anytime anyone decided such a thing. You live at their whim and when they decide to take you down for whatever reason, down you went, cradle and all.”
Taken from “Night of Thunder” by Stephen J. Hunter
A Bob Lee Swagger novel (I love that guy)
Why would he want to create a 250,000 unit citizen army?
But maybe I'm just being "selfish" here, as one might expect from a well-known bitter clinger.
Full quote:
“I uh continue to uh... uh support a ban on uh concealed carry uh... uh laws.”
I've backed up all the further I care to go.
Target practice for we 80 million strong gun owners?
So we can have target practice.
What? I am so surprised by this. I keep hearing commercials that BHO is a staunch supporter of the second amendment. A complete ban on concealed weapons? It’s crazy that his SS protection will be unarmed.
It’s not like he thinks he’s more important than the rest of us, right? I mean, if *I* can’t carry concealed, that means HIS bodyguards can’t carry concealed, right? That would be the “fair” thing after all...
/s
Hell, at this point I’d settle for half that. Early adopters are hard to find. Later comers would still be welcome.
Why would he want to create a 250,000 unit citizen army?
Well put and same here.
I’m tired of redefending my rights.
To hell with them.
“Federal Government under our Consitution be able to enforce a blanket restriction on the right of the People to defend themselves as our Founders intended they might.”
If I am not mistaken, they don’t even have the authority to pass a law like that except on Federal property. Of course, that doesn’t mean Obama wouldn’t try to ban it. If he does pull something like this it would need to be tested before he manages to pack the supreme court.
http://www.guntruths.com/Houck/just_another_day_with_gun_contro.htm
Just another day with Gun Control, January 16, 2000
by Jim Houck
The movie I went to see today, at the request of my film managers, was Hurricane starring Denzel Washington. I write feature films. I write TV ads for the largest advertising agencies on earth for clients like Toyota, Ford, Sony and Coke. I am the “Hollywood crowd” that the liberal press lies about so often.
I arrived early at the Torrance, California AMC 20 Theaters, so I bought my ticket and sat on a bench just outside the front lobby under a palm tree for about half an hour, enjoying the many different faces, the playing kids, the adults.
A flood of Californians streamed out suddenly. A young girl had been attacked by a criminal who had just shot her.
“Is the shooter stopped?” I asked, reaching for my Heckler & Koch USP .45, running for the lobby with the intent to kill the criminal before he could injure or kill more of We the People.
“No, nobody can do anything! He’s just walking around like he owns the place!” a California woman cried, trembling like a mouse before the lion. And indeed, the criminal did.
I ripped up my leather jacket and found my holster missing. I didn’t have my .45 with me today. I’d opted not to take it just this one time at the advice of the local Californians, avoid the hassle of the California cops if they discover it, I thought, save the massive court costs of exercising my right. “Don’t get caught, the street officers will hook you and book you and let the judges sort it out,” a friend and local California police officer had told me repeatedly. Besides, it was three in the afternoon next door to Palos Verdes Estates, one of the most affluent and lowest crime areas in the United States.
My decision to leave my self defense at home very likely cost the young man who would be shot next his life. I have extensive, combat firearms training. I’ve been in three gun battles with criminals in New Orleans and Miami in the defense of myself twice and a Miami police officer once, and I’ve never missed nor have I lost. The criminals did.
Of course the criminal didn’t know these things. He didn’t know he was in a “low crime” area and he didn’t seem to care that it was three in the afternoon on a Sunday. All he knew was that he was operating in Senator Diane Feinstein¹s wet dream, a theater of perfect Gun Control. Not one citizen in the large crowd of moms, dads, young men or young women had a firearm with which to defend themselves. So they ran. But the funny thing is, they didn’t run very fast and the certainly didn’t run very far, in fact, many basically hurried and stood around and complained about not being able to finish their show. You see, criminals being in full control is nothing new in California. It’s not news. It didn’t excite these folks.
I stopped outside the lobby doors. No gun. No way to fight this criminal, I thought.
The shooter fired again, dropping a young man next. Well, the California people voted this idiocy through, they repeatedly elect servants like Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as state senators, people who take away their rights to self defense and the defense of their families, I thought, let them deal with the consequences of their decisions. Of course the criminal walked out the back of the AMC 20 Theaters and vanished long before the local police could wade through the Sunday traffic and do the paperwork. At least they were nice enough to come. They didn’t have to. They responded as a “courtesy” according to the Supreme Court. They have no legal duty to protect the individual from criminal assault or murder. Something surprisingly few people know, especially in California.
I looked at the downed young man. He would die, judging from my own personal
experiences as a shooter of over 20 years and where the criminal had injured him. The girl, barring very unusual circumstances, she would live, judging from where the criminal had injured her and her loss of blood.
The police put pressure on the injuries to try and reduce the bleeding from the criminal attack. Another courtesy service.
I sat back down on the bench and watched the Californians as they angrily demanded their ticket money be refunded, the victims of the criminal lying ten yards from them, moaning, dying.
A man with his wife in the line of angry movie patrons turned to me and growled, “I’m surprised Feinstein isn’t here already. And the liberal mainstream press. You know, we carry our guns anyway and we didn’t bring them today because it’s such a hassle to have to hide them all the time from the local cops. What a bunch of shit. Just look at that guy. He’s probably going to die.”
Thanks, Senator Feinstein. As a resident of Florida, in Los Angeles working on feature film scripts with my L.A. based managers, it’s interesting to see how your Prohibition on self defense, “Gun Control” works. Of course, had you been there to see The Hurricane, your armed bodyguards would have used their semi-automatic, high capacity “assault weapons” to stop the criminal dead in his tracks, which is what the bastard richly deserved. Funny, Diane, with all your SB 23s and SB 15s and Prohibition on self defense, the criminal still badly hurt and perhaps killed two young kids who just went to see a movie on a quiet Sunday afternoon. Why call it “gun control?” Why not rename it “defenseless sheep” or the “citizen massacre laws?” Or maybe just simple “bullshit.”
Wish you could have been there Diane to see how your idiotic laws work in real life. It was memorable.
Jim Houck is the Creative Director of Citizens of America
All the more reason to push for permit-free open carry laws, and full state pre-emption of all local gun restrictions?
My guess is that rather than restrict CCW (dubious constitutionality), he would simply set up Federale checkpoints around schools and check for firearms in vehicles within no-gun school zones. It would amount to an almost complete ban on private carry within urban areas.
“, they don’t even have the authority to pass a law like that except on Federal property.”
Considering his plans for Socialism, chances are he’s going to do his best so all land in this country is Federal property.
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