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Barack Obama For Pres?

Not if my vote or voice here has anything to do with it. Obama is one of the most anti-Second Amendment legislators in the country. In his short time in in the Senate he's managed to vote FOR almost every single gun control measure that has come his way. Gun Law News has a round-up of Obama's votes and you'll notice that only in 2006 did he finally vote yea on a gun right -- that of prohibiting firearm confiscations during an emergency -- and that probably because he was trying to "moderate" his position as his name gets bandied about by the liberal loving media.

More than that, this is a guy who doesn't believe that law abiding people have the right to own most handguns but it goes even further than that. According to On the Issues he would:

# Ban the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.
# Increase state restrictions on the purchase and possession of firearms.

Now this is important because even ignoring four million NRA members, you have millions more who don't support the NRA but do own semi-automatic guns. Tens of millions if you want to know the truth.

Do any of you Democrats really think these multi-millions of semi-automatic owners would vote for a guy who has stated that their guns should be banned or at least should no longer be sold or transferred? Some gun owner dies of old age and the family has to turn those guns in to the authorities? Someone needs money and can't sell his guns to a gun dealer? Your common .22 plinkers now yanked from store shelves?

I guarantee that there is NO WAY someone who wants to ban all semi-automatics is going to get elected because there is NO WAY for him or her to overcome a voting block of 10-30 million semi-automatic firearms owners.

Dream on, liberals...

Update: Lest any new readers think I'm being selective in rejecting Obama over this issue, note that I have also dismissed Rudy Giuliani and last Summer I wrote regarding Hillary and McCain:

John McCain's views on the 2nd Amendment are poison to me. I will not vote for him. Same goes for Rudy Giuliani. Same goes for Hillary Clinton. I hold no allegiance to any political party. I will vote for whomever has worked the hardest -- proven by their history of voting -- to preserve the 2nd Amendment, as well as all the others.

I wish more liberals -- or progressives as they call themselves now -- and Democrats specifically would fight for the Second Amendment as strongly as they do the other ones. They'd collect another four million votes in the process and win more elections more easily. And I wouldn't have to "settle" for Republican candidates.