| Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"--Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The Final Vote Count Is In |
| Friday, November 07, 2008 |
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Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business: "Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime. Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons." Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on the planet. "Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge financial judgments against firearm manufacturers when a criminal uses a gun to inflict harm, even though the manufacturers have complied with all applicable laws. "Closing the gun show loophole." There is no "loophole." Under federal law, a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. A person who is not a dealer may sell a gun from his personal collection without conducting a check. Gun prohibitionists claim that many criminals obtain guns from gun shows, though the most recent federal survey of convicted felons put the figure at only 0.7 percent. They also claim that non-dealers should be required to conduct checks when selling guns at shows, but the legislation they support goes far beyond imposing that lone requirement. In fact, anti-gun members of Congress voted against that limited measure, holding out for a broader bill intended to drive shows out of business. "Making guns in this country childproof." "Childproof" is a codeword for a variety of schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements, such as biometric shooter-identification systems. While no one opposes keeping children safe, the fact is that accidental firearm-related deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the numbers of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today, the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million. |
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So you're saying the newly elected messiah lied? imagine that a democrat that wants to ban guns.......everybody with half a brain knew he was gonna pull that crap. We all knew it would happen. We will just have to put up with him until the next election, when we get a republican back in office. |
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G'mornin Gt and M Dave! If you don't mind our asking? The Mr. would like to know what source this Obama flip-flop of the second Amendment originated from? It's not that he or I dispute any of it, it's that we, well more so he, does have a bigger concern regarding any potential future bans or restrictions. He wants to look deeper into it. Like I have all the time in the day to....................................Oops, I guess I do actually. Anyway gents, if you could pass that info, we'd like to see if we (law abiding gunners) might have a battle there. It's kinda comical really,(while the Mr. isn't looking) I know that this guy(president elect) probably doesn't like to see us arm ourselve's to any greater degree than we already have. And that every time I make it to the grocer, I never see any fresh rabbit, duck, goose, elk, moose, emu, badger, opossum,(not bad really), white-tail deer, quail. pheasant, beaver and so on. (stay with me here) So, I ask the anti gunners: "How the heck we gonna get any of those delicious critters if you take our right to have the tools to shoot em with? Because I sure as RED WOODS ARE TALL, cannot afford to buy anything reasonable to eat any more! Then of course, there is that self preservation issue to consider. With crime as it is these days and all the poor thieves looking for more free stuff, who might stab(please don't shoot) you over a dollar! Well BY GOSH AND GOLLY, I want to be able to point something at em even if it's not loaded or real. But I have to have faith in at least one element of constitutional protection? The Biggies on high, said so this past summer. Best go pick up a couple extras just to be safe though. (Mr. says) and I must say, I kinda agree. It's time for some fresh air and a few ticks-tocks outta this chair. God Bless. |
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Oh thank you! I tossed some thoughts about once in a while, netting a few now and then to share with others. All through school and college we wrote short stories for a creative writing class that twireled into becoming a local columnist for a few years in Arkansas. But really just love to express how I feel about "things." I have always loved life and took to heart those lessons taught by my family and local elders, while growing up in the upper lower states. I guess you know your thoughts mean something to folks when you are asked to write eulogies for family and friends. Sadly I have written about a dozen over the past few decades, though happy to be the one asked to write them. Well off to get some air and rub out my flattened bottom a bit. God Bless
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