So now we know (of course, we always did) that Obama doesn’t support the right to bear arms, even the right to personal self-defense. From Pittsburgh Live:
Rather than create a national registry, “I do think we have to do a better job sharing information between local and federal officials,” Obama said yesterday. He differs with McCain and Clinton about whether people should be allowed to carry concealed guns. Clinton and McCain oppose outlawing it.
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama said. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
Personally, I think CCW creates an atmosphere where LESS innocent people fall victim to the predators of our society.
Remember, as a state legislator, he wanted to ban private ownership of handguns.
By the way, would he favor “open carry” of handguns? Would that reduce the “fear factor” of liberals walking down the street?
Any self-respecting person who supports our Constitution and Bill of Rights would be a fool to vote for Obama. Or Clinton, for that matter.
I know that elections are about more than one issue but to me, the most important right I have is the right to protect myself, my home, and my family. All other rights depend upon an intact right to keep and bear arms. Period.
22 Responses to “Obama Against Concealed Carry”
on 04 Apr 2008 at 7:39 am # Bruce
At least McCain’s anti-constitutional transgressions don’t have the potential of getting you killed.
Quickly.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 8:33 am # Ken
Yeah, all those cities (DC) and countries (Britain) that have banned ownership of guns are such safety paradises, with little or no violent crime to speak of. What? You mean they are actually crime ridden hell-holes with no means of policing the criminals or allowances for self-preservation? Maybe if they just raise their taxes beyond the current confiscatory levels a solution will emerge……..
on 04 Apr 2008 at 8:52 am # bill-tb
His reason tells you more about Obama than anything else. He is nothing more than a repackaged elitist statist with a slick shuck and jive act.
Notice no one talks about freedom, liberty and responsibility?
on 04 Apr 2008 at 8:59 am # Roger.45
The leopard can’t change it’s spots. Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing. Blah, blah, blah. Oh yeah, damned liberal.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 9:01 am # Jeffersonian
It’s not like we don’t have 20-plus years of data on this that show exactly the opposite of what Obama is contending. Who’s pullin’ the okey-doke now?
on 04 Apr 2008 at 9:26 am # mike
Never trust a politician that doesn’t trust you.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 9:42 am # Phillep
John Ross described a conversation with a Black lawyer about why CCW failed in the state he lives in (Missouri?). Basically, too many Black voters had at least one relative who stood too good a chance he would end up shot.
JR has changed his site and I don’t see access to his archives.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 10:43 am # Kevin P.
I added this info to the Wikipedia page on this subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Barack_Obama#Gun_control
on 04 Apr 2008 at 11:00 am # James
I never thought that Clinton would be the lesser of two evils. Go figure.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 11:27 am # William Z.
Keep in mind that Obama also supported a complete semi-auto ban in Illinois.
As a Daley Machine state senator, perhaps his main job was to advance the Daley doctrine of total gun bans, plus, of course, keeping the downstaters from getting any of the Boss’ money.
As president, his main job will be to keep his godfather out of prison, shovel him even more money, and yep, ban guns.
That’s what he was manufactured to do.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 12:34 pm # Orbit Rain
In my mind, this is a spot where Barack show himself to be a fool. If you are a criminal and you ponder the fact that if you pull a gun, there might be three other guys that will pull a gun from nowhere and kill you, that you as crimininal will be that more hesitant to pull off some Brown’s Chicken type massacre, that walking into that classroom and pulling a gun might only get you one murder instead of 14 is going to make you think twice…
If someone wants to bring murder upon you, then you should be prepared to do it right back…someone with Obama’s thinking thinks that the government can do away with code what a mother has raised.
It’s not “society” allowing guns that creates killers.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 1:51 pm # mondonico
My impression is that most of the mass-murder events in this country occur in “gun free” zones, such as universities, schools, day-care centers, and churches. Thanks, Obama.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 2:39 pm # Michael Chaney
Sigh. Obama, buddy, we don’t care what you *think* about this. There are plenty of places that have concealed carry, and plenty that don’t. So, just look at the statistics and see what reality is.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 4:46 pm # Lyn
I don’t trust Obama on gun control either.
Obama’s “innocent people” more likely to be shot - what he is referring to are young black men. Obama is worried that if more White Americans carried pistols then more White Americans would use these pistols to defend themselves against black criminals. Obama is not too stupid; he knows about black-on-White crime.
For Obama the innocents are blacks. As for Whites, Obama and all other blacks are happy for you to be disarmed and to be victims.
Hope this clears things up for you, White voters.
on 04 Apr 2008 at 4:46 pm # Mike P.
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama said. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.”
Ahem:
“I am not in favor of an Obama Presidency,” I say. “I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get hurt/killed) by criminals.”
on 04 Apr 2008 at 7:26 pm # Big John
Phillep,
actually Missouri does have CCW and is alive and well. Now, if we can just get that same law passed on my side of the river in Illinois, I won’t be unarmed (in public, anyway).
on 04 Apr 2008 at 7:33 pm # Matt
Hmmmm…a black person against gun ownership… Shocking. Of course, you can’t play the perpetual “victim” if you take a stance to support ending the victimhood. I don’t have a problem with a black president, just THIS black guy.
It’s funny that Billary does not support outlawing CCW (at least in the article), but she voted against keeping gov’t thugs from disarming the citizenry during times of crisis (Vitter Amendment/Disaster Personal Protection Recovery Act); meanwhile, Obama’s against CCW but voted for the Vitter Amendment. I think we’ve got two schizo’s on our hands!
on 05 Apr 2008 at 12:53 am # OldeForce
Slightly OT: Went in to renew my carry permit and found out so many here in Colorado are renewing or getting new permits that it will probably be 12 weeks before the renewed permit comes in. It looks this way over most of the state.
Now if Illinois [which I travel through at least twice a year] and NJ [where most of our family lives] would offer or recognize carry permits, I’d be okay. [Fat chance, right?]
Jeff, my wife and a friend will be in Vermont in June - where’s your Toyota dealership? Get them to the range!
on 05 Apr 2008 at 1:17 am # Casey Tompkins
…What really floors me is that Obama has actually taught constitutional law during his stint at University of Chicago Law School…
And the dumb SOB still doesn’t understand the 2nd Amendment…
on 06 Apr 2008 at 7:15 am # Harold
Big John:
As I recall (I was not living in Missouri at the time of all this), as part of the long campaign to enact shall issue in Missouri, it was at one point put to the voters of the state … and it failed. To my memory, that and the recent San Francisco vote are the only times a major US polity has directly voted for gun control.
The amazing thing is that after that nasty loss, it was eventually passed, and in the last legislative season we got Castle Doctrine enacted along with zapping the last vestige of Jim Crow, a requirement for a permit from your sheriff for each handgun bought in a store.
Jim Ross had rather a lot to do with getting shall issue passed here and he lived in the St. Louis area, so I’d be inclined to believe him.
on 08 Apr 2008 at 12:11 am # Jim Boyd
The Second Amendment, as passed by the House and Senate, reads:
“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.”
The copies distributed to the states, and then ratified by them, had different capitalization and punctuation:
“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.”
The far left argue that the Second Amendment’s words “right of the people” means “a collective right” or “a right of the state” — apparently overlooking the impact of those same words when used in the First and Fourth Amendments.
The very concept of “the people” meaning a collective right and not an individual right in the second amendment while “the people” meaning an individual right in the rest of the bill of rights is a fairly new concept. Born in 1939 from US vs Miller.
Our founding fathers would not agree to this.
This is the reason I, along with 4 million people, are members of the NRA.
Surrending your individual right to keep and bear arms means surrending your right to free speech and religon because theses rights are tied to “The people”.
Most conservatives are conservative because they want to conserve, the constitution.
Most democrates would be distrubed if they read Thomas Jefferson’s (A democrat) writtings, he was pro second amendment, thought the media was biased (then only in printed form), was against big government and was pro market.
So was Abe Lincoln, but he was a republican.
The point of our founding fathers, is to ensure that the people would be armed, not to protect ourselves from bad people or to go bird hunting, but to protect ourselves from our government.
on 15 May 2008 at 5:10 pm # Don (Big Tex)
Here is some more news about Obama that we need to know.
As a fellow disabled Vet, I wanted to address your attention to something.
Barak Obama will NOT salute the flag or swear on the Bible.
Now this is a God given right for anyone to choose to do this.
It is also a God given right for anyone to vote for or against a person like this.
I do NOT want anyone who doesn’t aknowledge God and/or country to be president of these United States of America.
Do you????