Eric Holder Was a Gun Control Nightmare

newsmax.com ^ | November 21, 2008 | Jim Meyers

[neverdem]

Barack Obama’s nomination of Eric Holder for attorney general will not sit well with advocates of Second Amendment rights — Holder has consistently championed stronger gun-control measures.

As deputy attorney general in the Bill Clinton administration from 1997 to 2001, Holder “was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control,” according to The Volokh Conspiracy, a Web site that focuses on the legal system and the courts.

He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three-day waiting period on handgun sales, rationing handgun sales to no more than one per month, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" by anyone under age 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, and national gun registration.

“He also promoted the factoid that ‘Every day that goes by, about 12, 13 more children in this country die from gun violence’ — a statistic that is true only if one counts 18-year-old gangsters who shoot each other as ‘children,’” noted the Web site, founded by law professor Alexander Volokh.

After the 9/11 attacks, Holder wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also said prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities.

Earlier this year, Holder — who would become the first African-American attorney general — co-signed an amicus brief in support of the District of Columbia’s ban on all handguns and on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home.

Holder also played a key role in the snatching of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives’ home in April 2000, according to the Web site. Gonzalez was...

[singfreedom]

I guess we can consider him a “bookend” to our affirmative action President-elect.

[singfreedom]

According to a Zogby exit poll of Obama voters, only TWO PERCENT of them were able to answer, I believe it was 25, questions regarding his stance on issues! That is absolutely astounding. The American electorate has never been so utterly uninformed! (Even I, a non-Obama supporter, was able to answer all the questions correctly. So, the information WAS out there, none of his voters bothered to avail themselves of the facts!)

I think there are going to be a lot of jobless folks in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania that are going to be stunned and amazed when the BATF shows up on their doorstep to collect their guns. When your family is hungry, and you no longer possess a deer rifle, it's gonna be tough. There will be no sympathy from Oklahomans. You had a choice. You made the wrong one. Idiots.

[Cacique]

You want the media to do their job? How about citizens doing theirs to stay informed?