[Red in Blue PA]

“We essentially have two realities, when it comes to guns, in this country. You’ve got the tradition of lawful gun ownership …. And then you’ve got the reality of 34 Chicago public school students who get shot down on the streets of Chicago,” said Obama, according to an MSNBC transcript of the Jan. 15, 2008, Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas. “We can reconcile those two realities by making sure the Second Amendment is respected and that people are able to lawfully own guns, but that we also start cracking down on the kinds of abuses of firearms that we see on the streets.”

The problem with this is that legal gun owners will be targeted, not the urban thugs.

If he was truly serious, he would up the penalties for armed robbery and gang membership, but alas, this would adversely affect his key constituency.

[MrB]

The problem with this is that legal gun owners will be targeted, not the urban thugs.

That's pretty much the theme from the left. Like when they target honor students and boyscouts for extremely harsh punishment under "zero tolerance" rules,
but look the other way when an "at risk" yute physically threatens other students.

I believe it's their arrogance that lets them believe that they can implement some sort of cosmic "justice" for the "less fortunate".

[BerserkPatriot]

"And then you’ve got the reality of 34 Chicago public school students who get shot down on the streets of Chicago,” said Obama

How can that be????

Aren't guns BANNED in Chicago?

Doesn't that readily indicate that those bans DON'T WORK?