Good for President Obama
The White House supports civil rights:
White House Backs Right to Arms Outside Obama Events
Armed men seen mixing with protesters outside recent events held by President Obama acted within the law, the White House said Tuesday, attempting to allay fears of a security threat.
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said people are entitled to carry weapons outside such events if local laws allow it. “There are laws that govern firearms that are done state or locally,” he said. “Those laws don’t change when the president comes to your state or locality.”
I guess this had one of the desired results.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Well, the White House backs civil rights when allowed by law.
So the White House supports everyone’s right to sit at the lunch counter, as long as mixed-race restaurant eating areas are allowed by local law?
August 19th, 2009 at 10:48 am
BTW, I’m not missing the point. One guy open carries an AR-15 at a town hall meeting at the VFW, and he gets a press release from the President’s office.
Good. We won this round.
August 19th, 2009 at 10:51 am
Hearing that comment from the spokesman for a would-be gun grabber is quite a victory. Fabulous.
I think what the man at the rally did was great. Same for the guy in NH. If we are waiting for the perfect time to demonstrate and exercise our rights, the perfect time will never come.
We’ve got the anti-gunners on the ropes – not a peep from Washington about banning guns in the wake of the PA shooting, and now this admission from Gibbs. Let’s take the offensive and push them hard on respecting our rights.
Let’s get the average person comfortable with the notion that a man can be armed and peaceful.
A well dressed, articulate man openly carrying and behaving himself is a good argument for our cause. Better yet that several people like this, acting independently at rallies would perhaps help show that the capability to do evil and the intention to do evil are two entirely separate things.
August 19th, 2009 at 11:04 am
Read between the lines…
The White House didn’t say they were ‘OK’ with open carry, they said it’s _legal_ and they can’t do sh!t about it.
There’s a very important distinction there.
Two things are at work here:
1) Obama knows he’s blowing it with his overtly socialist policies, and he doesn’t want to say anything that will destroy the Dems in the mid-term elections anymore that what is already assured.
2) Obama exists in a sea of sycophants, and consequently, he actually thinks the public shares his anti-gun views… So, by pointing out that open carry is legal when the Anointed One is around, he thinks he can rally the troops and get those pesky freedoms crushed once and for all.
August 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Hmmmm. Gibbs (and by extension, Obama) ‘said people are entitled to carry weapons outside such events if local laws allow it’, though it’s not reported as a quote.
And Sebastian would argue that such action could not result in such a statement.
The quote from Mr Helmke makes it even better -“What Gibbs [and by extension, Obama] said is wrong,”
So you’ve got the White House saying we’re entitled to carry openly if the law allows, and the Brady Campaign saying that the White House is wrong …….
Who could ask for anything more!
August 19th, 2009 at 2:19 pm
Look for some off the wall threat to ANY Open Carry state, a threat to take ALL federal funding away if that law isn’t over turned…
There’s no way that Obama can allow this to just go on like that… It goes against everything he believes in…
August 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
TexasFred: But Obama believes in being politically successful and that being visibly anti-gun works against the success on the national stage.
He didn’t have to sign that credit card/National Park carry bill….