{"id":5066,"date":"2008-04-06T08:07:37","date_gmt":"2008-04-06T08:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/obama-is-trying-to-woo-the-gun.html"},"modified":"2008-04-06T08:07:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-06T08:07:37","slug":"obama-is-trying-to-woo-the-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/04\/obama-is-trying-to-woo-the-gun.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama is trying to woo the gun vote in PA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow! Talk about trying to deceive the public<\/a>! He’s been consistently for gun control and yet he plans to hide his voting record behind his gun advocate supporters. How post-partisan of him! Let’s all admire his cunning and skill:<\/p>\n

Barack Obama did not hunt or fish as a child. He lives in a big city. And as an Illinois state legislator and a U.S. senator, he consistently backed gun control legislation.
\nBut he is nevertheless making a play for pro-gun voters in rural Pennsylvania.
\nBy highlighting his background in constitutional law and downplaying his voting record, Obama is engaging in a quiet but targeted drive to win over an important constituency that on the surface might seem hostile to his views.
\n[…]
\nThe campaign has asked gun rights advocates like state Rep. Dan Surra, a Democrat from rural Elk County with an \u201cA+\u201d rating from the NRA, to form a coalition of supporters who can vouch for Obama.
\n\u201cIt is clear out there that I am for Obama, and they have reached out to me as a sportsman and a gun owner,\u201d Surra said Thursday. \u201cThere has been an outreach to pro-gun legislators, pro-gun people who are sympathetic to Obama\u2019s message.\u201d
\nThe campaign sent an e-mail this week to the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen\u2019s Clubs, saying it would \u201cappreciate all sportsmen taking time to learn the facts: Our candidate strongly supports the right and traditions of sportsmen throughout Pennsylvania and the United States of America.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice the language, he supports “sportsmen” owning guns, nothing about having guns for protection. His record is pretty clear that he’s supported gun control:<\/p>\n

Obama has long backed gun-control measures, including a ban on semiautomatic weapons and concealed weapons, and a limit on handgun purchases to one a month. He has declined to take a stance on the legality of the handgun prohibition in Washington, D.C., which the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing, although Obama has voiced support for the right of state and local governments to regulate guns.
\nIn the Senate, he and Clinton broke on one vote, in July 2006. Siding with gun-rights advocates, Obama voted to prohibit the confiscation of firearms during an emergency or natural disaster. Clinton was one of 16 senators to oppose the amendment.
\nA two-page white paper on Obama\u2019s website doesn\u2019t mention his voting record.
\nInstead, he introduces himself as a former constitutional law professor who \u201cbelieves the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms.\u201d
\n\u201cHe 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,\u201d the paper states. \u201cHe also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and common sense regulation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He hasn’t declined to take a stand on the DC case, this Politico reporter is pretty lazy, it only took me a minute to find a quote on it and it’s pretty funny where the quote is from — a Politico <\/em>question and answer session with Obama on gun control:<\/p>\n

Q: You said recently, “I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.” But you support the D.C. handgun ban, and you’ve said that it’s constitutional. How do you reconcile those two positions?
\nA: Because I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it’s important for us to recognize that we’ve got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people’s traditions. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He mentions owners protecting their families here but I’m not buying it because his actions and words in the past undermine that inclusion and I think it’s telling that he doesn’t always remember to include it when speaking of gun rights. Here’s what John Lott says<\/a> about this story:<\/p>\n

This is the same guy who told me back in the mid-1990s when we were talking about the Chicago lawsuit against gun makers that he didn’t think that anybody should be able to own a gun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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