Obama Wants Federal Ban on Carrying Concealed Weapons
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As discussed in a previous post, Obama Would Ban Private Ownership of Handguns. If shredding the 2nd Amendment doesn't work (lots of cold, dead, finger prying there), his back-up plan is to eliminate the right to carry concealed weapons.
CNN's web site notes that Obama
Supports extending the assault weapons ban. Supports national law against carrying concealed weapons, with exceptions for retired police and military personnel. Supports limiting gun sales to one per month.
He also was quoted by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, “I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
This guy is all about Constitutional rights and States rights, huh?
It is crystal clear Barack Obama is radically anti-2nd Amendment.
H/T Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms via Lone Ranger 2008
Bill Dupray at The Patriot Room
he'll lose a big chunk of the blue collar hunting crowd that might otherwise vote Democrat. Unless, of course, by November he can find out where he can "git me a huntin' license."
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It is unbelievable. The media with a few exceptions are caught up in Obamamania. I almost feel sorry for Hillary. Senator Obama is decidedly not "post partisan", he's uber partisan if he's anything. And I'm not even sure he realizes it. So will I have my CC permit taken away? Will anyone actually challenge this guy on substance and on his veracity? Not anyone on MSNBC, not anymore.
Carrie
because of something similar to this...
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Honestly, Queen Ann would never have been governor in the first place if Clayton Williams hadn't made some extremely distasteful and offensive comments about rape. Those comments turned the tide of the race. Concealed weapons or no, any competent Republican was bound to beat her.
Well, there go all those red states Obama was supposedly going to compete in.
He has about as much chance of winning West Virginia, Virginia, or North Carolina with a stance like that then Jesse Helms had of being elected Mayor of Boston.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
The McCain camp should use the Heller decision as an opportunity to run contrast ads in the Mountain West (cheap markets).
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I think a presumption has settled in that the Court will rule the right way. If they don't find the individual right, there will be hell to pay.
Failing that disaster, the real question is what guidance, if any, they give for restrictions on the 2nd Amendment right. Presumably pro-gun states will be able to stay as they are. It is in the Communist states, in New England for example, where McCain can score some points with the newly rejuvenated 2nd Amendment rights hitherto trampled by gun control do-gooders in those states.
he didn't get the moniker of "The Most Liberal Senator™" for nothing!
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
He is almost the nominee.
He is so bad he will have negative coat tails. He will save Republican Senate seats.
Has the NRA addressed this? Dang I'm mad this is crap!
The NRA rarely gets involved in primaries. Especially when both candidates are equally bad, or close to equally bad.
However, they'll come out in the general.
Keep in mind, Al Gore is not President because the NRA decided to beat the living tar out of him. The NRA alone probably brought West Virginia into Bush's column, and with that, the White House.
"I ain't never votin' fo another Democrat so long as I can draw breath! I'll vote for a dog first!" - Leola Thomas
....in states like Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
And I know y'all have a good heart here, but Texas PRIDES itself in its concealed carry statutes...Texas should be mentioned on EVERY short list of states that won't take that lying down.
Cold dead fingers?
pfffft...smoking blued barrels is more like it.
just sayin'
Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus
This has to account for a small percentage change in many of the purple states too. Even if it is only 2-3% that could be huge.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.
This is gawdawful. 48 States have some form of concealed carry now after years and years of fighting. So far, without any "blood in the streets" hysteria coming true.
He wants to trump the will of the people in 48 out of 50 States? Well of course he does. He's a nanny-statist "Democrat" who doesn't care about the will of the people, just his agenda.
Nauseating.
(Disclaimer: I'm a Life Member of the NRA and hate gun grabbing goons)
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Funny, I never would have guessed that.
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Gone 2500 years, still not PC.
Not a member myself, but my wife is. Lifetime.
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...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
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Joining the NRA is a fun way to poke the left in the eye (just ask the Dissident Frogman).
...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right...
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I was living in Fort Lauderdale 3 years ago, when the Florida state legislature enacted a law that would - in effect - allow deadly force via gun to be used against those who posed a serious threat to either the carrier's or someone else's life. I seem to remember every gun control zealot within a hundred miles of the state screaming about the "OK Corral" and how the Fort Lauderdale area would become like the streets of Beirut.
Funny how it didn't happen. Nothing on the 6 o'clock news about blood in the streets; the only thing in the Fort Lauderdale papers about it was a shooting, after a few months, that was justified under the then-new law.
Barry would do well to remember that people deserve far more credit than is usually given them.
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Obama and Axelrod don't think this is as important as we do. This is what you get when you nominate an urban, hip and aware liberal as your nominee.
They don't realize that West Virginia and, in all probability, Pennsylvania, are probably gone.
Coming out against the State's right to issue their own Concealed Carry Laws is, like, TOXIC.
McCain will say absolutely nothing about this through the primaries.
I am simply dumfounded that O'Stupid is this dumb.
Dumb. Dumb. Dumb.
This is Alan Keyes Dumb.
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill
While I don't personally own a gun, I believe that I should be able to own one. Just another reason for me to support McCain.
Yeah, it's too bad McCain's a semi-gun control zealot himself! For that matter, the only thing he hates worse than the 2nd Amendment, is the 1st (but then there's also the 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 10th he also doesn't seem to be crazy about.). It's too bad Dr. Ron Paul got booed off the stage every time he espoused truly conservative, limited govt principles and was never given a chance in the media.
This coming election reminds me a the South Park episode that aired right before the last presidential election regarding the choosing of their new school mascot. The choices are really that bad!
McCain is a gun grabber,an elitist, and an internationalist. But he's still better than Obama, but not by much. I'm getting sick of holding my nose when I go to vote. I think I'm just going to write in Ron Paul and let the Neo-Con comandeered Republican Party go down in flames, at least as far as I'm concerned.
McCain ain't perfect... his NRA rating shows that. He's a bit too strong on regulation for my liking but a pretty strong defender of ownership generally.
Obama and Hillary have earned their F's.
I like GOA, but I wish they worked with the rest of us instead of trying to create infighting among 2nd Amendment defenders. Not everybody is as extreme as they'd like. The NRA isn't as extreme as I'd like them to be, but many of the GOA folks are so extreme they come off like Ron Paul supporters... if you don't share their extremism you're no different than the biggest nanny statists... that's just unproductive.
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McCain signed the Cheney amicus brief. So that puts him to the right of Bush and the Solicitor General in supporting strict scrutiny under an individual rights interpretation of the 2nd amendment.
Since Bush is the most pro-gun rights President in my lifetime, that puts McCain pretty far out there. Sure he's not "perfect" but an F is hilarious.
That's like pro-lifers giving Bush an F because there are still abortions in America.
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Unfortunately - seriously - the Democrats seem determined to force them (and us) to grade on a curve. God help us if one of them ever gets the mother-wit to say "the law is about where I think that it should be on gun control; we just need to loosen it up a little in a couple of place, and maybe tighten it up a little in a couple of others."
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2, ...no, actually, there's not enough semantic content there to justify a 2. So we'll stick with Blam.
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GOA believes in a Thompson Submachine Gun in Every Classroom.
They are not exacty in the "Mainstream".
They make the late Jeff Cooper look like he should have taken up interior decorating as a vocation.
Trust me, friends don't let friends use GOA as their yardstick of who and who is not a gungrabber.
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Endowment Member. As I live a couple of miles from their HQ, maybe I should wander over and see if they could use some volunteer help.
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concealed carry permit holders are much less likely to commit crimes.
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DON'T BE A FOOL!
We want them to leave this stuff up.
He'll change his position and the MSM will say he was for gun rights all the time.
Jesus wept. They'll take it off their website if you warn them!
You don't think Obama actually has convictions, do you?
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill
Obama's an incrementalist, who moves incrementally toward the same destination that many of the law professors who supported him so much in Chicago want to move when they speak candidly:
They wish they had a big eraser to take the 2nd Amendment out of the Constitution and confiscate every gun in America that is privately owned. Period.
When you say things that starkly, people accuse you of being an alarmist, but until you've sat across the table from the Dean of a liberal law school in Chicago and discussed it informally with several of the professors there, you don't realize how true it is.
It is. They ultimately want them all, and they don't care if the process of getting them all takes 100 years.
And I've been using variations on it here at RedState for about 6 months now, because I know that it's going to be crucial in 2009 that the NRA is well-represented, and not just for people who currently own guns. Joining the NRA requires neither a firearms license, active participation in shooting sports or hunting, or even an abiding wish to go and buy one. There's no requirement that you've ever owned a gun. In fact, I still don't!
But if you're interested in preserving and protecting your right to do so in the future, and would like to support an organization that uses your money to keep you informed about your rights and to work on your behalf to protect them, I've always thought you should join the NRA. And as a plus you get the magazine of your choice and the member benefits, which are extensive. It's probably the best $35/yr. you can spend on any politically-active organization in America, in my opinion.
Joining the NRA doesn't mean you're a "gun nut." What it means is that you think the Constitution contains the 2nd Amendment for a reason, and that it should continue to exist, despite the rocket-science legislative strategies of people like Charles Schumer to "hammer guns on the anvil of a relentless legislative strategy" and deprive you of your rights and gradually strangle them off.
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Does that mean I have to turn in my SR-25?
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with Obama saying this in the battle ground states during the general election?
In truth, neither of them is really worse on the 2nd Amendment: they're both disastrous. Both of them are playing to the middle and Obama is undoubedly embarrassed that his previous statements about de facto bans are now coming to light, but all of it is called Getting Elected 101. Either of them in the Oval Office will dispense with the campaign rhetoric as though they'd never said it and get back to what they really believe in, at every conceivable opportunity.
Obama is particulary dangerous because he's a Constitutional Law professor who taught at the University of Chicago. If anything, the regulatory environment under an Obama administration will be even more swiftly and effectively draconian than Clinton's. Hillary will screw the next big step toward confiscation up, but Barack won't. He's smarter than she is.
I don't think BO or HRC are going to make 2nd amendment/"gun control" a campaign issue. I think the Dems know that it's a loser anywhere outside pockets of the NE and Cali.
McCain, while a bit spotty on gun issues, is still far better than either. But I don't can't see him bringing the issue up either.
This election will be about the economy and the war.
The socons will have less influence on the outcome accordingly. I don't see any hotbutton issues for them.
Why would they get excited about McCain?
They made the difference the past couple elections.
I think that's over now.
I think we nominated a loser.
I like the man a lot....I respect him immensely....but I think he's going to get crushed unless the economy makes a dramatic turnaround over the next six months.
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