Since he’s telling his supporters to get in your face on issues like gun control, it’s prudent to post this editorial from the Washington Times on B. Hussein’s record and positions related to the 2nd Amendment.
LAMBRO: Gun control target practice
Donald Lambro (Contact)
Thursday, September 18, 2008COMMENTARY:
Gun control has suddenly emerged as the toxic issue of the 2008 presidential campaign, endangering Barack Obama’s appeal among Democratic blue-collar and labor union households.
The freshman Illinois senator has a long record of favoring gun bans in Chicago and Washington, D.C., and a raft of other gun control bills that are anathema to gun owners, hunters and sportsmen alike.
He insists now he supports Second Amendment gun rights to keep and bear arms that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld when it struck down the D.C. gun ban in June. But he refused to join 77 of his colleagues who signed a friend of the court brief to end the weapons ban and remains sympathetic to a broad range of gun ban statutes.
Yet the Obama campaign has been running ads in key states with large populations of gun owners and hunters, insisting he supports the right to own a gun. He cannot run away from his record.
The McCain campaign, the Republican National Committee and the nearly 4 million-member National Rifle Association are blanketing the country with ads, Web site videos and other broadsides detailing his record – especially in battleground states where gun controls are political poison.
NRA officials told me this week they are mounting the biggest anti-gun control offensive in their history to make sure every gun owner in the country knows that deep down Mr. Obama does not believe people should own guns. (Read the rest here
Obama can flap his gums all he wants about being pro-gun rights, but he’s no better than McCain on the issue (both received a failing grade from Gun Owners of America). Do some research, and you’ll see Obama is at best misrepresenting himself when he claims to stand for the 2nd Amendment.
