Posted on 06/30/2008 5:35:45 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
As Robert Novak noted today, voters could find it difficult to get a read on Barack Obama’s real feelings about the rights of gun owners and the constitutionality of gun bans. Obama has certainly made his position opaque with a number of contradictory statements in this campaign. Perhaps the tribulations of Hale DeMar and the legislative response to an act of self-defense can help make Obama’s impulses a little more transparent.
Hale DeMar confronted a burglar in his home in December 2003 and shot him twice, forcing the burglar to flee and to seek medical care. Police arrested Mario Billings at the hospital, but they also charged DeMar with a misdemeanor for owning a handgun:
A 55-year-old Wilmette man was charged Thursday with weapons violations after he shot and wounded a burglar in his home more than a week ago.
Hale DeMar, of 35 Linden Ave. in the north suburb, was charged with a misdemeanor for violating a state law that required firearm owners to have a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification card, Wilmette police Officer Roger Ockrim said in a news release. DeMar was also cited for violating a village code that prohibits possession of handguns in Wilmette, the release said. Violation of the ordinance is a petty offense carrying a maximum fine of $750 upon conviction.
At the time, Wilmette had its ban in place for 14 years. When the state legislature discovered that Wilmette had essentially charged DeMar for defending his home, several members moved a new law that essentially barred prosecution on handgun bans that arose from incidents of true self-defense. That bill, SB2165, was filed within three weeks of the incident, and took four months to wend its way through the legislature.
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The article clearly shows that Obama is for disarming Americans, no matter what he has said recently. All you need to do is see how he has voted.
Between now and the election, he will veer to the center. But if he is elected, he will revert to what he really is, a hardcore leftist.
Obama is, IMO, the most dangerous candidate that has ever run for President, and that’s saying quite a bit, even for the Democrats. This Marxist must be defeated.
Honest Obe!
Too bad the new Obama keeps running into the old Obama.
BTTT
He will be defeated.
That’s why you run ads clearly stating his record and highlighting the inconsistencies when applicable.
Obama says he always believed that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms. I think he’s telling the truth. He knows that the Second Amendment exists to allow people to protect themselves from the type of government programs he wants to implement; that’s why he must infringe upon it.
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