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“If Obama wins, you lose,” says gun
law expert John M. Snyder.
“America’s 80 million law-abiding, gun-owning voters will face serious
threats to their individual Second Amendment civil right to keep and
bear arms should Illinois’ junior Senator be elected President,” Snyder
continued.
“Although Barack Hussein Obama now professes support for Second
Amendment values in an obvious attempt to cynically and hypocritically
garner as many votes as he can, his public record shows he is a die-hard
opponent of law-abiding Americans’ gun rights,” Snyder added. “This
record shows that he opposes the right of law-abiding citizens to use
firearms to defend themselves and their loved ones from predatory,
murderous criminals, that he opposes their right to defend life, the
very right to life itself.”
Snyder said that, “Obama’s record in this regard is at least as bad as
if not worse than the records of other statist-oriented Democrat
Senators, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, his competitor for the
Democrat presidential nomination, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, Edward
Kennedy, Frank Lautenberg and Chuck Schumer. This guy Obama is bad news,
real bad news.
“On the other hand, his march toward the White House can serve as a
potent rallying point around which patriotic, freedom-loving Americans
can coalesce in a battle for the soul of America in a political struggle
to prevent the flag of liberty from being buried beneath the feet of the
gun grabbers.”
Snyder noted that Obama’s anti-gun owner positions run counter to those
of United States Chiefs of Police and Sheriffs, who indicated in a
recent survey of American law enforcement command officers conducted by
the National Association of Chiefs of Police that over 93 percent
support the right of any law-abiding citizen to be able to purchase a
firearm for sport or self-defense.
Snyder pointed out that, within the last 12 years, Obama has supported
legislation to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns, to
ban most of the privately held shotguns, target rifles and black powder
rifles in Illinois, to allow law enforcement officials to forcibly enter
private homes to confiscate banned firearms, and to ban shotguns with a
bore of .50 caliber or more.
Obama has voted four times against legislation to protect homeowners
from prosecution in cases where they used a firearm to halt a home
invasion. He has called for federal legislation to prevent states from
enacting laws enabling qualified, law-abiding citizens within their
jurisdictions to carry concealed firearms, and in fact has spoken out
generally against concealed carry laws. He even helped defeat an
Illinois bill that would have allowed an individual to carry a concealed
firearm when he or she had a valid order of protection against another
person.
Obama voted twice in the U.S. Senate to hold firearm manufacturers,
distributors, dealers and importers liable for the acts of criminals
when he opposed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. He has
called for a ban on the sale or transfer of all forms of semiautomatic
rifles, shotguns and handguns.
Neither Obama nor Clinton signed the congressional amici brief
supporting opposition to the Washington, D.C. statute banning the
possession of a handgun in one’s home in the currently considered
Supreme Court case of District of Columbia v Heller, even though Sen.
John McCain of Arizona, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee,
did.
Snyder indicated that while Obama and many of the more well-known
Democrat politicians are on the anti-gun bandwagon, this is not
necessarily true of all Democrat politicians. “In fact,” he said, “many
of the Democrats are solid on the issue of gun rights. In time, let us
hope they will be able to take command of their party and throw Obama
and Clinton and the others into political oblivion where they belong.” |
