Republicans attack Obama on guns
John McCain, wrestling for days with Barack Obama over national security, also went after the Democratic front-runner on guns today.
McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, told the National Rifle Association's conference today that if Obama, or Hillary Clinton, gets to the White House, "the rights of law-abiding gun owners will be at risk."
The Republican National Committee launched a web video that criticizes what it calls Obama's anti-gun record and cites his remark about economically distressed voters who "cling to guns or religion" to argue that he is "out of touch" with American values.
But Obama said lawful gun owners have "nothing to worry about from me."
He said he expects Republicans to try to use the gun issue against him.
"All I can do is describe to the voters what I believe and what I think," Obama told reporters in Watertown, S.D. "And what I believe is that there is a Second Amendment right. I think it is an individual right. I think people have the right to lawfully bear arms.
"I do believe that there is nothing inconsistent with also saying that we can institute some common-sense gun laws so that we don't have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago, that we can institute strong background checks, that we can trace guns back to potential unscrupulous gun dealers who have pedaled them to people that shouldn't be getting them. You know, those are laws that I think the majority of Americans believe in."







The rights of so called law abiding citizens are intruding on the rest of us who just want to avoid the daily target practice that has become as typically American as apple pie. The republicans can go and snort some more gun powder.
The God given right and duty to protect one's self, home, family, community and country preceeds government both in nature and in time. Our creature, the government, did not give us our primary rights, and has no rights of its own to give or remove, or right to remove our exercise of those rights. The second amendment acknowledges (not "gives us") these rights and further, along with the jury system, is the citizen's final defense against a tyrannical government. (See "American Revolution"). It's not about duck hunting. Further, the much noted first amendment is just gossip without the citizens' power to enforce it. Evidence and scholarly studies repeatedly show street crime reduced when the citizens are armed if they want to be. "We hold these truths to be self evident - that all men are created equal, that they are ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS - that to secure these rights GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. I belong to the NRA but am greatly disappointed with their amphasis on "they're going to get your guns" instead of promoting the natural right and the reason for it.
It looks like Barrack Hussein Obama don't want to defend himself come on Senator John Mccain already suited up and his hand is on the clip of his gun.
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