Posted on 02/15/2008 10:56:51 AM PST by rellimpank
MILWAUKEE - Barack Obama said Friday that the country must do "whatever it takes" to eradicate gun violence following a campus shooting in his home state, but he believes in an individual's right to bear arms.
Obama said he spoke to Northern Illinois University's president Friday morning by phone and offered whatever help his Senate office could provide in the investigation and improving campus security. The Democratic presidential candidate spoke about the Illinois shooting to reporters while campaigning in neighboring Wisconsin.
The senator, a former constitutional law instructor, said some scholars argue the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees gun ownerships only to militias, but he believes it grants individual gun rights.
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Well, you need only hand in the guns they know about.
(8^D) yep!
No. I was merely posing a question for those holding the collective rights POV here on FR (i.e. Robert Paulsen and a few other kooks). IOW, I was pointing out the obvious potential consequences of DC winning its appeal in Heller. I sincerely hope that DC loses, and the collective view is bitch-slapped onto the garbage heap of history.
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