Obama Gets Gun-Shy

To be fair, in the final days of his campaign Obama _did_ promise not to take people's guns away. And he _will_ have to rely on those gun owners who gave him the benefit of the doubt when he runs for re-election in 2012. On the bright side, if he keeps keeping his campaign promises, the gun lobby will eventually lose the ability to frighten people into stocking up on these guns.

Violence Policy Center is the old Handgun Control Inc. which changed it's name to distance it's self from HCI's history of lies and made up facts.
Now in trying to re-invent themselves, the switched...back to the same old lies.

do journalists do any research on the quotes they repprt as news?
"In recent years the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has also lifted virtually all restrictions on imports of foreign-made assault weapons, permitting a flood of cheap Romanian, Bulgarian and other Eastern European AK-47s to enter the country, according to gun-control groups. "There's been an absolute deluge of these weapons," says Kristen Rand of the Violence Policy Center."

Blantant LIE, here are the most recent "rulings" of the ATF. Every President in the past 20 years have also made it HARDER to import firearms that "look" scary.

Perhaps Obama has seen this. It's from a recent CNN gallop poll that was taken after the shootings last week. http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/04/08/gun.control.poll/index.html

Only 39% of Americans favor a gun ban today. Looks like the "new" majority in the minority in this issue.

Hillary said, "90% of the Machine guns and Rocket propelled Grenades going into Mexico comes from the U.S". Where can I get some?

Don't anyone ever get tired of the lies 90% of the guns comeing from this country they most likely have several thousand full automatic weapons. Does anyone think mabe there coming from south of mexicos border where there are no laws to break.Now I'm no idiot ar silly enough to think some are not going there but now hold on to your pants so they won't fall off....What kills me is they are illegal to be in this country laws says they have to have a drivers license and they can a buy guns legally stop the ignorance change the law to be legal to be here or no guns Boom there a half ass fix.. Build the damd fence and run these Illegal Mexicans back to Mexico.... P.S can't break a law if your not here..... Arnold Berry

the thinking (and certaintay) behind the thinking that all other guns will be taken , too, is in the language of the assault weapon ban (while it was US LAW), and it is there that defining guns was done. for the purposes of the law.
at the time, people with hunting guns found that THIER GUNS had magicly become "ASSAULT WEAPONS."
SEE?
Further,the other language on firearms nomenclature was twisted! to Confuse.
It became clear this was a wedge, to go after more guns to ban later and yet was NOT directted at criminals, and was a farce as a crime control measure.
It's only porpos was to be a gimmick to use to continue a discrimination campaign against firearms owners. It had NO OTHER POSSIBLE USE! And it was for these reasons it is no longer US law.
Real military assault weapons are controled by existing law. The news media never makes mention of this FACT.
Obama is not going to see a time on his watch when firearms owners will sit back and let lies propel firearms law debate. It's interesting that the mainstream news media which carried the lies (and little truth) the first go around are now having business problems. lost credibility.
Gun owners want CRIMINALS controled, and they can be, with will power from the congress and White House. It has been doe before .There is NO EXCUSS.

More people carring guns equal less crime. Notice the bad guys don''t walk into a police station and start shooting and if they did it wouldn't go on for long.

This is about picking the time and the place for your battles. Right now jobs and the economy have to take precedence. This is not the moment to take on the hot button issue of assault weapons. I don't understand why some people think that if the assault weapons are taken, that all other guns will be taken too. I don't think they will. But every time the words assault rifle are mentioned, half the people in the country go crazy in one direction or the other. Pick your battles and pick your timing. That's what Obama is doing.

Bad information in paragraphs 5 and 6. What these people call "Assault Weapons" are semi-automatic versions (and therefore not Assault Rifles) that fire intermediate powered cartridges. A standard deer rifle (found in many, many homes across the country) has much more power, and therefore, the cartridges fired in these "Assault Weapons" is not "high powered" at all. The information in the importation is also clearly wrong. The import ban is still in effect, and it prohibits the importation of certain firearms and styles of firearms, as well as the "sporting purpose" clause. The Romanian and Bulgarian AKs mentioned in the article did not suddenly start appearing. These rifles have been imported for a long time, just without the features that would classify them as "Assault Weapons."

Blaming an inanimate piece of machinery is stupid. If you can't see that then I assume you are not a gun owner. If you are not a gun owner, I assume you have had nothing but good luck and saints in your life. The rest of us have been mugged, robbed, or invaded. Car crashes kill many more people each year in America, but we don't ban cars, or speeds in excess of 20mph. Nonetheless, Soccer Moms take their kids to school in high-powered Assault SUVs (aka HUMMERs)!

Let's be perfectly clear. The problem isn't that the Second Amendment isn't working. It's just that it doesn't work well enough in states that infringe on the right. The nutcase in Binghamton, NY somehow had a pistol permit, but in NY that's rare and arbitrary.

If Binghamton, NY were located an hour South in "shall issue" Pennsylvania, the chance that an ordinary law abiding citizen could have shut down this miscreant's rampage would have been exponentially greater.

No gun restriction is ever going to prevent a person, who is bent on evil, from accomplishing his ill will. Anyone capable of brutal murder is so far beyond having any concern for a weapons law as to make the point mute. We are wasting valuable time and energy proposing laws which a criminal is in the business of ignoring. These futile efforts amount to re-arranging the deck chairs on the titanic. We ought to be looking at the real causes of violence, hate, anger, disenfranchisement, poverty, ignorance and the empathy and compassion that too many in this generation seem to lack.

The Second Amendment is, first and foremost, an insurance policy for Americans to prevent the possibility of future tyranny. There is the argument that no handguns, rifles or shotguns are going to keep a government from becoming tyrannical. The Supreme Court weighed in on this in June 2008.

As Justice Scalia put it recently in the Heller vs. D.C. decision: "It may well be true today that a militia, to be as effective as militias in the 18th century, would require sophisticated arms that are highly unusual in society at large. Indeed, it may be true that no amount of small arms could be useful against modern-day bombers and tanks. But the fact that modern developments have limited the degree of fit between the prefatory clause and the protected right cannot change our interpretation of the right. "

The government has clearly shown that over time, it develops a greater willingness to infringe on 1st (Speech), 2nd (Bearing Arms) and 4th (Search and Seizure), but it's doubtful that our government may have the stomach to infringe on these rights, when doing so requires them to turn their arms against a law abiding, armed populace.

In short, so-called assault weapons in the hands of law abiding folks (and yes, there are millions of them) act as the final gatekeeper which secures and protects the rest of the guarantees enumerated in the Bill of Right for our great-grandchildren.

There is reassuring irony in the fact that the exercise of the right virtually guarantees that it will never be needed for it's most important purposes, to prevent the future tyranny of government.

Hey !! How about all the folks with assault weapons go overseas and fight the bad guys and let our soldiers come home? It will save a ton of money we were gonna spend on the troops.

The Weimar government imposed gun control after violence by the Communist and Nazi street gangs in the 1920s. The neighboring governments in Europe followed their lead to register their citizens' arms. While that may or may not have had any effect on crime, we do know that after the Nazi invasions, the first thing the Gestapo did was to check the local registers for Jews, Gypsis, etc., etc., and gun owners. If the registered owner couldn't hand over all of the listed weapons, they killed him.

Kofi Annan brought arms control to Rwanda. Somehow, that didn't prevent the slaughter the Tutsis but it did make their self defense virtually impossibel. On a smaller scale, after "reports of violence", the police confiscated the arms of the citizens of Rosewood, Florida. A mob then razed the town the following night. See Gun Control is Racist by Grandpa Jack, an illustrated pamphlet courtesy of Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, JPFO.org for more on this topic.

In 1994, Senator Feinstein admitted the "Assault Weapon" Ban was only a first step; as she put it: "Mr. and Mrs. Amercia, turn them in, turn them ALL in." When a country is being prepared for tyranny, a valid early indicator is Gun Control. President Obama and Co. will probably try to do this one by the "back door" incrementally now that he has seen the polls.