Posted on 04/03/2008 10:57:31 AM PDT by SJackson
Barack Obama is embracing anti-gun policies in the run-up to a Democratic presidential debate scheduled on the one-year anniversary of the Virginia Tech shootings.
I am not in favor of concealed weapons, Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.
These remarks break from Obamas previous moderate rhetoric on gun control.
While campaigning in Idaho in February, Obama promised, I have no intention of taking away folks guns.
Obama elaborated later that month in a political forum sponsored by ABC News and the Politico. He said: I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respects the Second Amendment and people's traditions."
Obamas tough talk on gun control may be prompted by Philadelphia-based Democratic leaders who are pressuring Clinton and Obama to adopt harder stances on gun control. This issue is expected to come up in ABC News Democratic debate on April 16 in Philadelphia. 32 people were shot to death on the campus of Virginia Tech by Seung-Hui Cho April 16, 2007.
Obamas new hardline liberal position differs from his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton and GOP candidate John McCain, who both are for concealed-carry.
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said in a statement Obama should apologize and revise his stance. Barack Obama ignorantly believes that legally-armed Americans are as reckless and irresponsible as the criminals with whom his political sympathies evidently law, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. He has been insisting for months he supports the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, but here he is now campaigning in Pennsylvania, stating essentially he would prefers Americans not exercise that right.
Someone needs to ask Obama what percentage of crimes are committed by people who have a previous criminal record. Recidivism is the problem. If they got the felons off the street and enforced minimum sentencing guidelines without consideration of RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, we might make some progress toward reducing gun use and the huge Black murder rate.
I have no intention of taking away folks guns. ... I will have goons to do that for me.
never heard of that
There is no way he was going to get my vote anyway but this just makes me more resolved to spread the word on this racist anti American anti second amendment man
No way should I give up my P 229 either, maybe the man needs a constitution lesson as well
I disagree, Bush never cleaned out the clinton cronies when he had the chance, maybe that’s the plan, but that’s for another topic. He is too naive and incompetent to do damage if we have republicans that are willing to fight.
what you said has been going on in the media since he announced he was running
whether he gaffs and lies on selma,
lies on coming over here
lies about his racist pastor
his racial statements typical white people and greedy white folk.
Him saying having kids is a punisment
etc
etc
etc the media will blow this over as with all the other mess up’s anmd lies he’s done
expect chris matthews to say tonight that it was one of the best speeches ever and we need to listen to this speech along with how he got tingles up and down his spine while listening
a man does a robbery and uses a knife and kills people as has what happened, to a lib it's the man who is at fault
Now my P229 is sitting in my drawer and it's not hurting anyone
another gun somewhere in America is being used to kill someone
guess I must have a well mannered behaviored gun
He should have said, "I have no intention of trying to take away folks' guns". Trying to do it and actually doing it are two different things. Of course that would have been no less a big fat lie than what he actually said.
Whatever he may think about the right to keep and bear arms, and I seriously doubt that it's favorable to the 2nd Amendment's guarantee of that right, if he's elected he will be so indebted to Kennedy, Schumer, McCarthy, Pelosi, Boxer, Sarah, and the rest of the anti-gun crowd that he wouldn't be able to go against their pre-planned gun grabbing schemes even if he wanted to. Those gungrabbing fanatics have been dreaming of a Democrat president and a Democrat majority Congress ever since Clinton lost his Democrat Congress to Gingrich's "Contract with America".
I look at it differently
Obama is clearly a raicst and surrpounded by racist so if you vote for this man then you too are a racist and an American hater
For sure if a man who was white had these racist connections and had come out with racial stereo type comments then that man and those who had voted for him must agree with him are clearly racist to a lib and dem
so I’ll go with the lib view and just reverse colour
as I do and every time I hear ans ee Obama it makes me more convinced to get the word out as the media in this country have totally lost their job description
this includes Fox too
Brian kilmeade at fox and friends who storms off the set because Obama was being pointed out to who he really is and today kilmeade took bernie goldwater(thiink it;s his name) off the set and stopped the conversation as he too was pointing out obama’s lies
there’s also shepherd smith
if the media actually did their job then Obama would be no where right now and chris matthews would be crying in the corner his darling has lost
I don’t like any of them, hillary I despise.
My liberal relatives are in total fear of “guns” and are absolutely sure they are the problem, not the solution. I suggested once that they get a sign and put it in their yards:
I’d even pay for them,
THIS IS A GUN FREE ZONE!
But not one of them would take me up on the offer......
ha ha
I should do that next time this converstion comes up, maybe when I get to Boston I’ll ask them to put a sign on their backs saying no gun here
I’m in Florida and if we ever have a hurrican or disaster then I would know my family will be safe from looters
just look at how they acted in new orleans after katrina, even the police were looting , wonder how many homes were looted where they had signs looter will be shot, I bet none
That is exactly the way I understood it.
My words to Obuma, “Fuc- you boy.” I know you wish law abiding citizens who carry concealed would stop eliminating your voter base.
Free Man and Women Own Guns, Slaves Do Not.
Respectfully,
NSNR
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