Dreams of Obama

January 21, 7:21 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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We talked yesterday about President Obama's "urban policy" as stated on his website, specifically as it pertains to "gun violence in cities." We noted he wants to repeal the "Tiahrt amendment" and the reality, that such data is already available to criminal investigations, that repeal would allow for further harassment of gun dealers, and that both BATFE and the FOP oppose repeal .

Let's look at the next gun law the President hopes to change:

Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them.

Well, that certainly sounds like following through on his stated conviction--you know, that thing he said to convince gun owners he was on their side and they should vote for him:

"I know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne."

Yet his gun control dreams extend throughout the Republic (we still are one, aren't we?) But it sounds good, doesn't it? "Commonsense"? "For the children"?

Talk about buzz words straight out of the Brady Campaign/Million Mom March playbook. To translate what they really mean, consider who federal gun laws already declare to be "ineligible persons":

The following classes of people are ineligible to possess, receive, ship, or transport firearms or ammunition:

• Those convicted of crimes punishable by imprisonment for over one year, except state misdemeanors punishable by two years or less.

• Fugitives from justice.

• Unlawful users of certain depressant, narcotic, or stimulant drugs.

• Those adjudicated as mental defectives or incompetents or those committed to any mental institution.

• Illegal aliens.

• Citizens who have renounced their citizenship.

• Those persons dishonorably discharged from the Armed Forces.

• Persons less than 18 years of age for the purchase of a shotgun or rifle.

• Persons less than 21 years of age for the purchase of a firearm that is other than a shotgun or rifle.

• Persons subject to a court order that restrains such persons from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner.

• Persons convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.

So what are Obama and Biden going to do that fits any objective definition of "commonsense"? Make things more illegal for the above list? Or come up with more foolishness that won't work, but will infringe on the right of the people from Chicago to Cheyenne to keep and bear arms...? You know, that Second Amendment he respects so much...

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Oh looky here...

That did not take long at all.

Shifting the "urban policy" anti-gun hopes and changes to the official White House website, that is...