Posted on 06/10/2008 2:32:59 PM PDT by Zakeet
The government of the District of Columbia is defending a gun ban before the Supreme Court, with a decision expected this month. The National Rifle Association Web site has a list of those "common sense" restrictions Obama has favored. One of them caught the eye of blogger David Hardy:
Barack Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within 5 miles of a school or park, which would eliminate almost every gun store in America.
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Five miles? As Hardy notes, the effect of this would be to "eliminate almost every gun store in America." Alan Korwin, a Phoenix-based gun-rights advocate, has a series of maps of his hometown, showing areas that are "gun-free school zones" under a federal law that bans possession of firearms within 1,000 feet of a school. Phoenix is a sprawling city; to show the effect of such restrictions on an older, denser town, Korwin also has a map of downtown Cleveland, which shows dense concentrations of 2,000-foot-diameter circles.
The proposal Obama endorsed in 1999 would have banned gun stores within five miles, or 26,400 feet, of a school. Imagine the same maps with each of those circles 10 miles across. Gun stores would be permitted only in the most remote rural areas--and only if there is also no park within five miles.
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According to the article: Obama also proposed "to make it a felony for a gun owner whose firearm was stolen from his residence which causes harm to another person if that weapon was not securely stored in that home." This sentence is clumsily worded, but it seems to be saying that if someone breaks into your house, steals your gun, and uses it to rob a liquor store, Obama would send you to prison for failing to store it "securely."
The libtards will never ‘get it’ when it comes to the second amendment and RKBA.
We need a clear declaration in support of the inalienable, individual right to keep and bear arms from the Supreme Court, soon.
How diabolical - the gun owner would essentially have NO defense, as it would be argued that the gun could not have been stolen if had been stored with adequate security.
And the robber would get a suspended or reduced sentance because he is an “unfortunate.”
It has been a while since I researched it, but I think here in Texas you can already be charged if you don’t make an effort to secure your weapons in either your car or house.
Don’t let thow bitter, clinging to their guns and bibles know this!!!!!
More direction from the Nanny State.
Community Organizers programs and problem solving will now be used to conduct American foreign and domestic policies, NOW DON’T WE ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THIS?
The guy’s not too bright is he?
So locking the door to your car or house isn't making "an effort to secure your weapons?"
According to the state of Texas... No and No. Too many idiots have left loaded weapons in their house where kids and other people could get them so the state does have options to charge someone who leaves one in a house if it really wants to. Same thing in a car. I don’t know how often it happens, but it CAN.
Of course, what good is a loaded weapon if it is not with you?
If it’s a small child, say four or less, who has the legal right to be in the house that gets the gun and there’s a problem, I can see that. Stolen and misused by a burglar or even an adult or older child who is allowed to be there, no way.
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