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April 04, 2008
Obama Comes Out Against Concealed Carry
US Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks during an appearance at the 38th constitutional convention of the Pennsylvania AFL-CIO in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 2, 2008. REUTERS/Tim Shaffer (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008 (USA)
Obama Comes Out Against Concealed Carry
by Amanda Carpenter
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 Obama’s 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."
Obama’s 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.
Obama’s 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.”
Wild Thing's comment.......
“While a complete ban on handguns is not politically practicable...”
So he WOULD try to ban handguns. It just isn’t “politically practicable” ( at this time )
“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.”
Nope. Just line up and be shot like good little sheep.
"And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets."
And those folks with illegal handguns...are just gonna turn them in too. What a total idiot! It’s hard to bear arms, if you can’t carry them. Obama is an idiot, an idiot who can’t understand the concept of the 2nd Amendment, private property or freedom.
How many times must these liberal gun grabbers be told that it is not the gun that kills people... It is the bad people that kill other people... and if you make it illegal for good and responsible people to carry guns it will do nothing at all to stop the bad people from killing the good people with their illegal concealed guns.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Posted by Wild Thing at April 4, 2008 05:45 PM
Comments
The truth is that Barack Obama is only against law abiding citizens from applying for permits and meeting local and state requirements to carry concealed weapons. He is silent on strengthening and enforcing existing laws to arrest and punish criminals who actually use concealed weapons. I wonder why?
The answer may be in some of the statistics in this book.
The Color of Crime
http://www.amren.com/store/colorcrime.htm
Two examples are:
Crime Rates
• Blacks are seven times more likely than people of other races to commit murder, and eight times more likely to commit robbery.
• When blacks commit crimes of violence, they are nearly three times more likely than non-blacks to use a gun, and more than twice as likely to use a knife.
Someone should ask Barack Obama how many of the weapons used in these crimes were "concealed". He should also be asked how many and what percentage of crimes were committed by people who had permits to carry a concealed weapon and used it in a crime.
Posted by: Les at April 4, 2008 07:29 PM
Has anyone ever read of a law abiding citizen with a CCW permit committing a crime and using his concealed gun?
Obama believed local communities should have the power to enact stricter gun control regulations which go against the constitution. Read it.
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2008/02/barack_obama_comments_on_shoot.html
And, since Obama is so willing to go against the 2nd Amendment, I wonder if he will be so willing to go against the first Amendment concerning religious freedom. After all, other religions aren't allowed in Muslim countries.
Posted by: BobF at April 4, 2008 10:46 PM
Zebra Obama is against guns because Zebras get hunted in Africa? The blue state inner-city gangstas love to pack heat - his base, eh? GOD blesses our 2nd Amendment and Divine Providence WT!
Posted by: darthcrUSAderworldtour07 at April 4, 2008 11:33 PM
Les, thanks for the link and information from the book.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 4, 2008 11:40 PM
Bob, thank you so much for the link. I think not only Obama but a lot of Dems are willing to go against any Amendment. Obama sure is showing he has no respect even for our Amendments.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 4, 2008 11:44 PM
Darth, yes if they did anything about guns it would leave the good guys without them and the bad guys would get them anyway. How very stupid that is.
Posted by: Wild Thing at April 4, 2008 11:47 PM
