Tuesday, April 08, 2008

bHo's Gun Dance

Interesting article from Robert Novak on "Obama's Gun Dance:"
Barack Obama, who informs campaign audiences that he taught constitutional law for 10 years, might be expected to weigh in on the historic Second Amendment case before the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are pondering whether the 1976 District of Columbia law effectively prohibiting personal gun ownership in the nation's capital is constitutional. But Sen. Obama has not stated his position.

Obama, disagreeing with the D.C. government and gun control advocates, declares the Second Amendment's "right of the people to keep and bear arms" applies to individuals, not just the "well-regulated militia" cited in the amendment. In the next breath, he asserts this constitutional guarantee does not preclude local "common sense" restrictions on firearms. Does the Draconian prohibition for Washington, D.C., fit that description? My attempts to get an answer have proved unavailing. The front-running Democratic presidential candidate is doing the gun dance.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Dancing" is for ballrooms not bedrooms.
Walt Rauch

Anonymous said...

And to think it wasn't that long ago Fredheads were chanting, in the Church of Fred, that there was no difference between McCain and ole B. Hussein.

Anonymous said...

The funny thing here is that Obama was never technically a professor:

http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/03/obamas-never-be.html#more

Jerry The Geek said...

"In the next breath, he asserts this constitutional guarantee does not preclude local "common sense" restrictions on firearms. Does the Draconian prohibition for Washington, D.C., fit that description?"

That's not Draconian ... that's Procrustean.