Posted by
The Hermit Crab on Saturday, September 01, 2012 3:08:59 PM
Barack Obama is fanatically opposed to the 2nd Amendment. No-one who knows his history can doubt it for a moment. Of course, he's like Charles Schumer in that regard: if they're going to push their entire socialist dictatorial agenda, they know they had better disarm the people first. So how could he make a statement like this after the Aurora theater shooting:
“I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees
an individual the right to bear arms. I think we recognize the
traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to
generation, that hunting and shooting are part of a national heritage,”
Obama said in a speech to National Urban League, six days after the
mass movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colo.
“But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s
belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals; that
they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our
cities.”
He continued, “I believe the majority of gun owners would agree we
should do everything possible to prevent criminals and fugitives from
purchasing weapons, and we should check someone’s criminal record before
they can check out a gun seller, that a mentally unbalanced individual
should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily.” (From TheBlaze.com, which by the way is a very good news site.)
Jim Quinn of America's Morning Show thought he had covered this statement thoroughly, but he got hung up on the AK-47 reference in the statement and failed to notice the "presence of an absence". Here's the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution; see if you notice what I noticed instantly:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
infringed."
Do you see it? Our Constitution guarantees us the right to keep as well as bear arms, but BO does not believe that we have the right to keep them. What he really said is that we have the right to bear arms -- in his army, under his orders, and at his discretion. Meanwhile, he wants to keep those pesky arms under his control, in case we get any crazy ideas about liberty and the people controlling the government.