Obama and Bush
Via Insty, comes a round up of stuff at TalkLeft on the messiah err Obama on guns. The spin is consistently some variation of he supports the right to arms but also supports reasonable restrictions. No, I’m as gun-nutty as gun nuts get and that’s my position. Only difference is that I’m believable. Obama’s position is not, given his support for the DC gun ban, the fact he’s never seen a gun control law he didn’t like, and that he was a board member for the Joyce Foundation (who funds all of the anti-gun astroturf).
But this bit is particularly amusing:
Obama is actually straddling the issue somewhat like the Bush Administration did when it filed a brief in the [D.C. gun] case last month. He does support individual rights, but says—and this is the qualifier–the government can impose reasonable restrictions on gun ownership. And he then suggests that pretty much any existing laws are reasonable.
Heh.
February 18th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
If I’m not mistaken Obama’s position and that of the post Civil War Ku Klux Klan are the same. Oh, and I’m not mistaken.
There is a reason for wanting your prey disarmed. The only thing that has changed is the prey.