February 22, 2008

More Obama "Reasonableness" On Gun Ownership

Via Pajamas Media:

Obama Shooting Himself in the Foot with Anti-Gun Stance

Barack Obama will have a big problem attracting the blue-collar white voters he needs to win the presidency, writes Bob Owens: they like guns and he wants to take their guns away.

In the foot?...... Never mind.

But it turns out that when I said, (Obamas view was) "You may own a gun, you just aren't allowed to defend yourself with it." I was spot on.

Tellingly, Obama’s campaign only addresses the gun rights of hunters and specific shotgun-only shooting sports, and only then in vague terms.

At no point does Obama recognize an individual right to own handguns, or explicitly recognize a right for Americans to use a firearm to defend themselves or others. The site explicitly states that Barack Obama recognizes civilian gun ownership for two just purposes, “hunting and target shooting.”

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