More on Obama and guns

Hugh Hewitt weighs in on Obama and his "I don’t have the votes in Congress" comment...

The idea that Second Amendment rights depend on Congressional inaction due to a lack of votes is the give-away here.  First Amendment rights cannot be curtailed by Congressional Action. Fourth Amendment rights are not subject to majority vote.  Gunowners and originalists wonder why Obama is conceding that majorities in House and Senate can take guns away.

We should point out that Obama is supposedly a ConLaw professor. As such, he should know that Congress doesn't get to vote on what is or isn't a Constitutional right.

So what should we gather from this? Namely that Obama is lamenting the fact that he doesn't have those votes! If he had them, he'd surely dust off that old quote from Sen. Dianne Feinstein.

For a guy who doesn't want to take our guns...

...he sure has a funny way with words:

Obama: "Even if I wanted to take (guns) away, I don’t have the votes in Congress."

He was for it before he was against it...

Where have I heard that before?


From Hot Air

You'd think a former ConLaw prof would know better...

The Prof seems to have a bit to learn. From the Barack Obama campaign website...

Respect the Second Amendment: Millions of hunters own and use guns each year. Millions more participate in a variety of shooting sports such as sporting clays, skeet, target, and trap shooting that may not necessarily involve hunting. As a former constitutional law professor, Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms. He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting. He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and commonsense regulation.

Source

As a "former constitutional law professor", Barack Obama should know that the Constitution doesn't "create" new rights; it recognizes pre-existing rights. History teaches us that politicians who fail to recognize this distinction also fail to truly respect the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as an individual liberty. They invariably see the firearms ownership as a privilege granted by, and therefore revocable by, the government; not as a God given right.

On the Second Amendment, Don’t Believe Obama!

Obama, over the course of the primary campaign, has tried to make some vaguely pro-gun noises. (Perhaps he's trying not to frighten those bitter, clingy, religious voters!) But the truth is that the "Candidate of change" is an old school gun grabber. Here's just a partial list of Obama's true positions on gun rights...

FACT: Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.

FACT: Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.

FACT: Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.

FACT: Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.

FACT: Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.

You can read more at the NRA-ILA website.