Obama’s record shows hostility to gun rights
Barack Obama has claimed that he does not take donations from special-interest groups or lobbyists. True, but he has accepted donations from their spouses, relatives and friends (source: Fox News).
Obama has no respect for the Second Amendment. He has voiced support or voted to ban all handguns, ban the right to carry in every state, and to ban firearms in the home, even for self-protection.
Obama’s attitude toward armed, violent criminals has been one of benign neglect at best. When the Illinois Senate wanted to try gang-bangers as adults when they fired a gun on or near a school ground (1999) or when they committed murder to help their gang, and when the Senate wanted to make them eligible for the death penalty (2001), Obama voted no in both cases.
Obama said he believed federal mandatory-sentencing laws used to put armed and violent predators behind bars should be abolished (source: Chicago Tribune).
When Illinois lawmakers introduced a bill that would exonerate citizens for violating local gun bans if they used a gun to defend themselves in their homes, Obama voted no. Obama would disarm the public and allow the criminals to run free.
Anthony Belli
Greensboro
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"When the Illinois Senate wanted to try gang-bangers as adults when they fired a gun on or near a school ground (1999) or when they committed murder to help their gang, and when the Senate wanted to make them eligible for the death penalty (2001), Obama voted no in both cases."
I'm not sure we should execute minors regardless of whether they're gang-bangers or not.
Posted on July 3, 2008 3:40 AM
And I think the Supreme Court made the second amendment pretty clear, so I doubt Obama will be disarming anybody.
Posted on July 3, 2008 3:44 AM
I was holding my breath over that Supreme Court decision--never know what that Kennedy is going to do. About time somebody showed a little common sense.
I never understood how people could say that the 2nd Amendment meant only that militia could have guns. Of course a militia has guns! Nobody is so stupid that they need a constitutional amendment to state that the militia are allowed to carry guns. That being the case, obviously the amendment is meant to prevent the federal government from disarming the vast majority of law-abiding American people.
Posted on July 3, 2008 6:35 AM
No, No, Anthony. Haven't you heard? The Deliverer came out and said AFTER the SC's ruling that hey, he's all for the 'right to bear arms' after all...has been all along!!!
Who'd a thunk it? So NOW if you can count on the Deliverer to protect your 2nd Amendment rights.
Posted on July 3, 2008 7:18 AM
Anthony Belli, plagiarist:
http://roch101.blogspot.com/2008/07/another-plagiarized-letter-to-editor.html
Posted on July 4, 2008 10:38 AM