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Its scary that hildabeast looks conservative next to him.

Iustum et tenacem propositi virum non civium ardor prava iubentium, non vultus instantis tyranni mente quatit solida.
-Quintus Horatius Flaccus

The article makes a good point: There's a big difference between Obama and McCain on guns and the 2nd Amendment. With only a few exceptions, McCain has consistently voted for guns rights.

And I can't help but mention that Huckabee is even stronger on the 2nd Amendment than McCain is. Just a thought.

It should also be kept in mind that McCain has been great on supporting conservative judges and has pledged to appoint more like Roberts and Alito. One more conservative on the court would bring about a huge change in the court's direction on many issues that have been decided 5-4.

Mike Griffith
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point. What is significant here is that Obama had nothing to say about what could have stopped or limited the death toll at the school, and neither did the rebuttal.

The issue is the necessity for gun bearers in the classroom to whack these nuts off before they knock many students off.

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Let's face it... the people against Obama's positions on gun control have about ten thousand other reasons why they wouldn't be voting for him either. It's zero sum in the attraction of votes.

It says "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed except by common sense regulation."

It's right there ahead of the clause protecting abortion and after the one promising free speech except for conservatives and at election time.

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Hey Barack! Should local jurisdictions have the capacity to institute their own abortion laws? Or does that idea only apply to items on the left's agenda?

I sincerely hope that picture is right on the front page of the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News this weekend. Flanked by Gov. Ritter and Sen. Salazar, he "may yet be of some use to us," just like Bill is when he campaigns for local politicians.

especially if Heller goes our way. I don't want to see gun control become a big topic again, but with the Dems as they are, its going to happen anyway.

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can't be all bad, especially in the eyes of the AFL-CIO and those who want to make us poorer.

Maybe by change Obama means the violence that will ensue if dafedralguvmint attempts to strip people of gun rights held for over 220 years. That would be the sine qua non of pitting American vs American, every liberals dream.

Barack is now coming out of the closet and it's getting uglier by the day. Good thing he's got Danny Ortega behind him.

"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville

McCain has also clashed with the NRA over a gun show bill he co-sponsored with Joe Lieberman.

Because we always end up in a tussle with McCain over his breaks from the conservative movement, it's easy to forget what a real liberal looks like on an issue like the Second Amendment.

Elections have consequences, people.

(By the way, Ken Salazar looks mighty silly in that picture.)

No one of good character leaves behind a wasted life - John McCain

I'm going to go against the grain here and suggest that what he's saying in his stump speech isn't a facial example of bozosity to the extent people are making out.

I mean, even assuming the best possible outcome in Heller, we'll be living in a world where gun control legislation is subjected to strict judicial scrutiny. That will allow for "commonsense regulation", for sufficiently finessed definitions of "commonsense".

The issue, here, is the delta between:

(1) What Barry Obama considers "commonsense";

(2) What the courts, applying the correct standard of review, will consider "commonsense"; and to a lesser extent,

(3) What actually is "commonsense", in the real world.

Obama is a socialist plain and simple.He has sponsored the Global Poverty Act which if enacted would impose a tax on the US.The House passed this measure last year.It was supposed to come to a vote Thursday.

http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-v...

His positions.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/o000167/key-votes/

how the prohibitionist/hoplophobe vernacular has subtly shifted:

"I think that local jurisdictions have the capacity to institute their own gun laws…The City of Chicago has gun laws, as does Washington, D.C.," he said. "I think the notion that somehow local jurisdictions can't initiate gun safety laws to deal with gang-bangers and random shootings on the street isn't born out by our constitution."

Emphasis mine. They used to call explicitly for "gun control laws"; now, they're "gun safety laws".

More gun laws is the last thing we need. I am a student at the University of Florida and all I have to protect me on campus is my pocket knife. Currently I'm trying to get together a grassroots effort for Students for Concealed Carry on Campus.

This is chilling. This guy may be the next president, & he is so dismissive of individual liberty? This is more than the 2nd amendment; it's all of our individual rights. This is an issue for which McCain should come out, forgive the pun, firing both barrels!

So says Obama about the Second Amendment. But as with so many other issues, what Obama (and pretty much all prominent Democrats) says and what he claims to believe is in direct conflict with the type of decisions that would be handed down by the judges he would appoint.

Its like when Hillary or Obama says that they think marriage policy should be left to the states. Its a complete sham of a position, because they know very well that the type of leftwing activist judge they would appoint would strike down every traditional marriage law in the nation and impose gay marriage/civil unions in their place. Likewise, the Ginsburg-like judges they would appoint would rule that the Second Amendment is a collective right which can be regulated into oblivion.

Despite these obvious and huge contradictions, we can be sure that no one in the media will ever ask Obama or Hillary about them. Whoever moderates the debates will not bring it up. Sadly, we can also be quite sure that McCain won't be creative enough to bring it up either, which is a shame because this whole dynamic -- the moderate talk of the candidates vs the extremism and radicalism of the judges they would appoint -- is a good avenue of attack on the Democrats.

An aide to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick filed a police report Thursday claiming Monica Conyers, the short-tempered City Council president pro tem and wife of U.S. Rep. John Conyers, threatened to get a gun and shoot him at a city pension board meeting.

"She ran at him," Clark told The Detroit News. "She told him she would get a gun if she had to and that she has four brothers and they would whup his a-- if she asked them."

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080215/METRO/8021503...

Must be 'that time' of the month.

That gun control would creep into the picture in this campaign. My guess is that Kennedy will kick Heller back to the lower court on some excuse sometime around June.

Hope everyone has his NRA or GOA sticker on his car by that time.