[rellimpank]

--He said he would support federal legislation based on a California law that would facilitate immediate tracing of bullets used in a crime. He said even though the California law was passed over the strong objection of the National Rifle Association, he thinks it's the type of law that gun owners and crime victims can get behind.----

--wonder what good he thinks that would have done?

[VRWCmember]

said some scholars argue the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees gun ownerships only to militias,

The MILITIA is the body of all able-bodied citizens.

[Fido969]

"I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it's subject to commonsense regulation"

Yeah, that's wording is right there in the amendment, as I recall.

[Southern Partisan]

Once again, the Left gets it wrong. Gun rights are not “granted” by the Constitution, rather protected by it.

[Ancesthntr]

"I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it's subject to commonsense regulation" like background checks....

And if your background doesn't include being a high-ranking member of our national Socialist party, then its off to a re-education camp for you.

[Hugin]

Both Obama and Hillary have expressed support for a national gun registry and a Federal license requirement for owning a handgun. Funny notion of supporing individual gun rights.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

This is going to help him. Hard to believe but there are a lot of Democrats, yes even liberals, who are firmly on the side of RKBA.

[bamahead]

A surprising stance for him to take, for sure. Wonder what his communist supporters will think about this?

[Smokin' Joe]

You have to read farther down the page...

"I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it's subject to commonsense regulation" like background checks, he said during a news conference.

"Common sense regulation" is what the Brady bunch has been howling for all these years--and they'd disarm the citizenry, one and all.

[SJackson]

Barack Obama said Friday that the country must do "whatever it takes" to eradicate gun violence

Obama's solutions during his Senate run.

35. Do you support legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of

a. handguns?

While a complete ban on handguns is not politically practicable, I believe reasonable restrictions on the sale and possession of handguns are necessary to protect the public safety. In the Illinois Senate last year, I supported a package of bills to limit individual Illinoisans to purchasing one handgun a month; require all promoters and sellers at firearms shows to carry a state license; allow civil liability for death or injuries caused by handguns; and require FOID applicants to apply in person. I would support similar efforts at the federal level, including retaining the Brady Law.

b. assault weapons?

Yes.

c. ammunition for handguns and assault weapons?

I would support banning the sale of ammunition for assault weapons and limiting the sale of ammunition for handguns.

[Anti-Hillary]

Yeah the anti white bigot (see his churches website) is in favor of gun rights for all of his gang banging homies!

[distressed]

Barack Hussein Obama is an enemy of the Second Amendment. No other way to put it. His record proves it

From Guns Owners of America:

Obama to Get the Dems 'Barack' into the Business of Gun Control

[Sloth]

Is this kinda like how John Kerry believes that life begins at conception?

[muawiyah]

Yup, tracing the bullets ~ how utterly bizarre.

Better that students in Illinois be required to carry a piece to class so that this doesn't happen again.

[EdReform]

Taqiyya

[stylin19a]

but he believes it grants individual gun rights

it don't grant squat.

[WFTR]

--wonder what good he thinks that would have done?

I don't think he's stupid enough to believe that anything would have helped in this case, but the point of giving each individual bullet a serial number is to make bullets too expensive for anyone to shoot. Unfortunately, all three viable candidates for the presidency are likely to support this nonsense. We must find a way to retake Congress.

Bill

[lilparakeet]

Ok Osama, give us CONCEAL CARRY then! I’m an NIU Alumnus class of 95 and I call for an empty holster protest on campus ASAP.

Besides, the real issue is not the guns; it’s the prescription drug the shooter was taking for depression. Ironically, this guy was a criminal justice major and a very good one.

What I’d like to know is how he got from U of I Champaign (where he was enrolled at grad school) all the way to DeKalb without anyone knowing what was going on. It’s a good 3 hrs drive, if not more.

BAN THE DRUGS; KEEP THE GUNS!

[Kuksool]

Barry Hussein is merely rehashing the rhetoric of gun grabbers. Gun control actvists say they support the 2nd Amendement. They just say they support laws that go after “illegal” guns.

[Condor51]

Obama is for an individual Right to Bear Arms like I'm for mandating Cross Dressing on Friday nights.
(sit down Rudy, that's a joke)

[Amendment10]

Note that questions now being raised about the 2nd A. were actually resolved when the 14th A. was ratified, in my opinion. More specifically, John Bingham, the main author of Sec. 1 of the 14th A., included the 2nd A. when he read the first eight amendments as examples of constitutional statutes containing privileges and immunities that the 14th A. applied to the states. So there is no doubt in my mind that the 2nd and 14th Amendments protect the personal right to keep and bear arms from both the federal and state governments as much as any other constitutional privilege and immunity protects other personal rights.

See the 2nd A. in the middle column of the following page from the Congressional Globe, a precursor to the Congressional Record.

http://tinyurl.com/y3ne4n

Note that the referenced page is dated for more than two years after the 14th A. was ratified. So Bingham was evidently reasurring his colleagues about the scope and purpose of the ratified 14th Amendment.