Common Folk Using Common Sense

From FOXNews:

Barack Obama said Friday that the country must do “whatever it takes” to eradicate gun violence following a campus shooting in his home state, but he believes in an individual’s right to bear arms.

Obama said he spoke to Northern Illinois University’s president Friday morning by phone and offered whatever help his Senate office could provide in the investigation and improving campus security. The Democratic presidential candidate spoke about the Illinois shooting to reporters while campaigning in neighboring Wisconsin.

The senator, a former constitutional law instructor, said some scholars argue the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees gun ownerships only to militias, but he believes it grants individual gun rights.

“I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it’s subject to commonsense regulation” like background checks, he said during a news conference.

He said he would support federal legislation based on a California law that would facilitate immediate tracing of bullets used in a crime. He said even though the California law was passed over the strong objection of the National Rifle Association, he thinks it’s the type of law that gun owners and crime victims can get behind.

Although Obama supports gun control, while campaigning in gun-friendly Idaho earlier this month, he said he does not intend to take away people’s guns.

At his news conference, he voiced support for the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next month.

“The notion that somehow local jurisdictions can’t initiate gun safety laws to deal with gang bangers and random shootings on the street isn’t born out by our Constitution,” Obama said.

OK, so Obama believes in an individual’s right to bear arms. He believes the Second Amendment grants individual gun rights.

But then he comes back with support for the District of Columbia’s ban on handguns, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court next month. The question before the Court is “Whether the following provisions – D.C. Code §§ 7-2502.02(a)(4), 22-4504(a), and 7-2507.02 – violate the Second Amendment right of individuals who are not affiliated with any state-regulated militia, but who wish to keep handguns and other firearms for private use in their homes?”

So does Obama really believe that individual citizens can own firearms, or not unless they’re in a militia?

Then ‘He Who Walks On Water’ further muddies the water with his “tracing of bullets” scam. OK, let’s just assume that you could “mark” every bullet fired from a gun. And after a crime is committed you discover that some of the bullets were sold by Wal-Mart. What have you learned? Most guns used in crimes are stolen, and how you’ve opened that up wider to include stolen rounds. Are you any closer to solving a crime? And what about reloading used shells?

Then he tops it all off with his nebulous the Second Amendment is “subject to commonsense regulation”. Huh? He’s making a wild assumption that there’s common sense in Washington, and we’re seen scant little of that lately. And what about the other Amendments – are they subject to commonsense regulation as well?

This guy is dangerous. He’s a pretty face with no history nor substance. He is trying to spin himself as a combination of Martin Luther King + John Kennedy + Franklin Roosevelt, yet he is the epitome of the phrase “empty suit”.

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