Presidential Gun Runners
The lamestream media told you:
Sen. Barack H. Obama and Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, both of whom no longer use their middle names for reasons that remain unexplained, support the olden second amendment, and they are working hard to attract the gun vote.
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
The Brady anti-gun-rights campaign has issued its demands for “gun control” in a public “Message to candidates for president.” The Democrat’s candidates, if elected, are expected to work closely with the Brady group to implement “reasonable, common-sense” measures that include (quotes directly from the Brady newsletter):
– Make it harder for undefined “dangerous people” to get undefined “dangerous weapons.”
[FYI, note that anyone with a firearm (such as police officers, teachers or homeowners) are considered "dangerous" by hoplophobes and many politicians, and guns are not only dangerous, they're supposed to be dangerous and wouldn't be any good if they weren't dangerous.]
– “A strong and permanent ban on military-style assault weapons.”
[FYI, note that military-style weapons are precisely what the Second Amendment addresses, and "assault" is a type of behavior, not a type of hardware.]
– “Close the gun show loophole.”
[FYI, note that the private sale of property is not a loophole, that any criminal sale or purchase of a firearm at a gun show or anywhere else has already been severely criminalized and is largely unenforced, and why on earth should a gun-show gun sale be any more in Brady's sights than any other perfectly legal private sale between friends and relatives. Hmmm.]
– “Closing the ‘terror gap’ in our background check system.”
[FYI, I have no idea what this is but suspect it means using the so-called "no fly list" as a gun-ban list. This is a secretly generated list of airline passengers singled out for special treatment by unelected bureaucrats within the TSA or the HSA, without advanced notice or a published means of appeal.]
– “Stand up against the gun pushers’ lobby… and stand with victims… who have made it clear they want sensible gun laws.”
[FYI, note they have not expressed interested in going after the criminal perps who assaulted the victims, but are focusing instead on the ownership, possession and use of liberty's teeth.]
– “Insist the candidates get illegal guns out of our communities by [among other plans] strengthening the ATF.”
[Source: "The Brady Report," Winter 2008]
Sen. John McCain, running as a Republican, has not yet responded to repeated requests to denounce or at least retract his support for the McCain gun-show loophole bill, which would have entirely eliminated gun shows in America. McCain, sometimes called “the least offensive of the Democrat’s candidates,” did once publicly deny that his bill would end gun shows, but unfortunately that was completely incorrect. The town hall event where the Uninvited Ombudsman had asked him about it did not allow followup questions. See the plain-English bill analysis here.
The “news” media, despite extensive opportunities, continues to refuse to ask the candidates, “If you’re elected, what guns would you allow Americans to have?” The question of course is way loaded, but it would be fun to hear the replies, according to informed sources.
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May 18th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
sometimes called “the least offensive of the Democrat’s candidates,â€
Sounds good. Too bad it’s not true.
At least with the other two, we’d only have four years of meltdown. With the Republicans getting the blame for it, there’s no telling how many decades it’ll last.