Obama Gets Gun-Shy

Let's make a deal, I'll give up my guns when the police stand guard in my home 24/7 like my firearms do, when all the violent criminals are dead or permanently locked up, when women are no longer being raped in their homes, when the courts require police to protect people. For the record, the courts have repeated ruled that we have no right to expect protection from police!!

First of all gun ownership has very little to do with hunting. Gun ownership here is primarily protection from violent criminals. The courts have repeatedly ruled that we have no right to expect protection from the police, we are on our own. Our Mexican fueled drug problem is out of control, with desperate addicts committing any crime to get their fix.

Hunting guns are very poor for self protection. They are very dangerous to neighbors because of penetrating walls, too heavy, too much recoil, way too slow rate of fire, dangerous to unload due to fixed magazine, to large to use indoors, etc. etc

Gun bans have no effect on crime. Forget the excuse that people go to another state to buy firearms banned in their own state. Federal law has a 10 year jail sentence for anyone selling a firearm to someone when that it is illegal in the buyer's state. I've plotted state gun control grades against FBI violent crime statistics,which proves gun control has no effect!

Gun control also has very little effect on mass murders. 60% are obviously mentally ill but are untreated. They plan well ahead and have the time to acquire firearms illegally. Many use bombs as well, in fact most deaths are by other than firearms. The other 40% are members of law enforcement who "go postal" without warning, usually using work related firearms.

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When are you liberal screed-writers at Newsweak (not a typo, pun intended) going to understand that the vast "silent majority" of citizens in this great country believe that legal, private ownership of firearms is our only real protection against the kind of socialist totaliarian government that Newsweak espouses? CNN recently reported that between November 2008 (the disasterous day that Mr. Obama was elected to this nation's highest office) until the end of March 2009 they received 1.2 MILLION more requests from federally licensed firearms dealers for criminal background checks than they received in the same period from November 2007 until March 2008. In today's downturned economy, I believe that this demonstrates that the majority of American citizens are finally waking up to the looning disaster that the Obama administration is producing. Thankfully, as the internet matures, liberal publications such as Newsweak will become extinct fossils of the past and the people will be heard.

Why is PrezBo-Zo "silent"??? Here is why...and...it is just the start....

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Wake up and smell the roses. No politian who is planning to run for election or re-election is going to make any move toward banning guns. the gun control hubbub comes from isolated local politians and some running for the U.S. House. No National or even Statewide Politian would push gun control. There are too many gun users in both parties to do something like that. Would Penn., wisc., etc. etc. vote for a gun controller. Noway jose! The GOP would want you to believe that because it is on of their big 3 phony issues. Abortion, Gun Control and socialism are the issue that push their voters to the polls. All issue the the Republicans shelve immediately after the election cycle is completed. The GOP has no intention of losing these issues.

I'm certainly not surprised to hear this coming from a leftist magazine like Newsweek. Sometimes I wish that it was made by people living in real states, outside of NYC.

Carjackings were an issue in Texas, until they passed the Concealed Hangun License. They've all but gone away now. It's difficult for a robber to consider a carjacking knowing that there's a good chance that the person in the car has a (lawful) weapon and can defend themselves. Guns have provided a great deterrent against crime, and I would not want it any other way. If people want to live in a country with extremely high taxes, limited freedoms and the ability of the government to imprison without cause (yes, exists even in many Western European countries), go and do it. Leave the US and quit trying to put a foreign model into play here.

I believe that I have every right to own an assult rifle if i am eligble to buy any other type of weapon. These drug cartels probably don't even own these weapons leagly and probably wont ever own any weapon leagly. So if we ban assult rifles, then they will adapt just like any other enemy and start using any other weapon designed to kill. If you ban Assult rifles then whats next? ALL weapons? You cant just say "Well assult rifles were designed to kill humans.", ALL weapons are designed to kill. If a high power rifle can take out a buck, imagine what it can do to a human.

I think you should consider two other stratagies, tougher gun CONTROL and stricker importing and border control.

If a Congressman was to propose to prevent street racing by instituting a ???Race Car Ban??? which prohibits the sale of red manual transmission automobiles with any two of the following items, alloy wheels, only two doors, pin striping or a tachometer while exempting red cars made by Ford he would be laughed out of Washington. The ???Assault Weapons Ban??? with its restrictions of weapons because they look more dangerous then other mechanically identical weapons is an equally laughable piece of legislation. It clearly was drafted by someone with no knowledge of fire arms or military weapons.

The original Clinton ???Assault Weapons Ban??? only limited the import of a single military rifle; a weapon that had been last used by the Union Army during the American Civil War. The law was later modified to permit the importation of these Italian made replicas of the lever action Henry rifle. The rest of the banned weapons are not and never were military rifles nor were they specifically designed to kill people. These weapons were guns specifically designed to look like fully automatic Military weapons. Military weapons that cannot be imported into the United States for sale to private citizens, even those citizens who have met the requirements to own a fully automatic weapon. There are guns on the list of specifically band weapons that are the mechanical equivalent of guns on the specifically exempted list.

The ???Assault Weapons Ban??? is just an ineffective approach to reducing gun deaths as the mythical ???Race Car Ban would be to stop street racing by restricting cars that look fast.

If you take away the guns only criminals will have guns. We are law abiding citizens who know how to properly handle a firearm and do what is needed to protect ourselves and our loved ones. If a criminal or a nut case came into a building and started shooting everybody. And a law abiding citizen with a conceal carry permit had a gun on them they would shoot the armed man (or woman) before they killed 5,10 or 15 people. And possibly save many more lives. If you take away guns the killers will use knives. Take away knives they will use baseball bats to kill. Take away bats and they will use a car and drive over people. Take away cars and they will use something else. Where does it stop? "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" I have guns in my house, not once have I ever injured or killed anybody. Why hasn't anybody talked about putting the gangbangers away that killed people before. Why do they keep getting back on the street to kill again. Why hasn't the law been able to keep repeat offenders off the street? Why aren't we doing more to keep firearms away from mentaly unstable people and illigal alians that don't belong in this country anyway. Why aren't we locking down the border better to keep guns from entering Mexico and the illigals in their own country? We need to get our country back., and protect ourselves from the nut cases out there. If armed law abiding citizens with conceal carry permits were on the airplanes, we would not have had thousands of people dead on Sept 11th 2001. Just remember, Guns don't kill people, people kill people. The hijackers used utillity knives (not guns) to kill on the airplanes and then used the plane to kill thousands. Obama even said in the story above that he wil go ahead with the asault rifle ban later, not now. Why would anybody that owns a firearm vote for Obama?

The US is not a pure democracy - it is nearly impossible to change the US Constitution, especially to alter one of the Bills of Rights. The 2nd Amendment's stated purpose is to keep the State free. This means that weapons of war are granted to the citizens of this country as a right. Some would like to restrict citizens on only owning hunting weapons, but clearly our rights allow all non-criminals to own guns which can be used in armed conflict.

This being the case, it makes little sense today to be a gun-control advocate. The most sensible course of action for people who value their own life, and that of their loved ones, is to buy a gun or two, and procure a concealed weapons permit. All the stats show that larger numbers of CCW holders are better for reducing crime, anyway, so you can feel good about carrying a pocket revolver.

So sorry, progressives and liberals, but the war that has been fought since the 60s is over. The 2nd Ammendment won, as Thomas Jefferson intended.

If you take away the guns from the law abiding citizens, the criminals will still have theirs. I have had guns my whole life and still do today. Not once did I ever injure or kill anybody with my firearms. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" . Take away guns and they use a knife. Take away the knife they use a baseball bat. Take away the bat and they use a metal pipe to hit somebody over the head. Take away the metal pipe and now they use a car and drive over people. Take away the car and they use something else. Where does it end? Why isn't anybody talking about taking away the gang bangers that shoot eachother and putting them away? Why are we still letting people that have mental disorders be able to get away with buying guns? Why isn't the law doing a better job of keeping criminals in jail and not letting them go on the street again to kill another day.? If you think the other countries did the right thing by banning guns. Look up the facts, their crime rate went up because the criminals still have their guns. The Law abiding citizens don't have anything to protect them selves with now and the criminals know that.

I voted for Obama in part because he stated he would NOT inflict additional gun bans on the law abiding gun owners. Between this and his promises about the war in Iraq, he seems unable to keep any of his promises

The last time I checked the US is supposed to be a democracy. President Obama is able to do the math and realizes that the majority of Americans are in favor of having the right to own a gun. We are also realize that the assault weapon ban was a first step in the direction of taking away that right. Bush's stand on gun ownership helped him win (if you want to call it that) two elections. If President Obama is as intelegent as I think he is he will keep that in mind if he wants to be re-elected.
Incidently, I hunt with an SKS every deer season. I may very well buy an AK for next season.

The last time I checked the US is supposed to be a democracy. President Obama is able to do the math and realizes that the majority of Americans are in favor of having the right to own a gun. We are also realize that the assault weapon ban was a first step in the direction of taking away that right. Bush's stand on gun ownership helped him win (if you want to call it that) two elections. If President Obama is as intelegent as I think he is he will keep that in mind if he wants to be re-elected.
Incidently, I hunt with an SKS every deer season. I may very well buy an AK for next season.

those who beat their weapons into plows ,will plow the fields for those who Don't. It's the criminals ,not the means they use ,that is the problem. baning guns will only prevent the lawabiding Citizen from protecting themselves and others., it will not affect the criminals from killing others. Learn about firearms from proffessionals before saying "this gun is bad or that one is ok, ect. none of my guns have ever comitted a crime,but they have prevented afew from happening.

Please check your facts on the number of guns manufactured in the US that are smuggled into Mexico. In the first place it is extremely difficult to buy a fully automatic weapon in the US or to buy the hardware to convert a semi-automatic into fully automatic.. Cartels are a business with a profit motive. Ask yourself this question, "Why would a for profit business risk bringing in weapons from the US, when it is much easier and cheaper to obtain them by other means?" It is much easier is it for the cartels to buy fully automatic weapons manufactured in Eastern European Countries, China and Southeast Asia and bring them in overland from other Central American countries or from South America, or by sea from any number of countries, either by smuggling them in by boat or by cargo ship in shipping containers. Mexico's regulation and inspection of shipping containers is very lax, particularly with the rampant corruption of government officials. Just ask yourself another question, "if it's easy to bribe (or threaten) a Mexican port authority official, why risk trying to bring in weapons from the US? Many liberals like myself are responsible gun owners and do not appreciate the hysteria generated by the anti-gun fringe.