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Obama is assembling a ‘gun grabber dream team’
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Attorney General Eric Holder, the man who argued that the Second Amendment does not protect a fundamental individual civil right.
Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who was point man on gun control issues during the Clinton Administration.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, former United States senator and now Secretary of State, who championed gun control as First Lady.
Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, who has been named Barack Obama’s “drug czar,” and has a history of lobbying the Washington State Legislature on behalf of virtually every anti-gun proposal put forth by Washington CeaseFire, the Pacific Northwest’s most vocal anti-gun group.
King County, Wash. County Executive Ron Sims, a liberal Democrat who has never been a friend of gun owners.
Former Washington Gov. Gary Locke, during whose administration the gun prohibition lobby put forth Initiative 676, a measure that was so egregious that a majority of the state’s sheriffs, several daily newspapers and a crushing 71% of voters rejected it. Locke, Sims and other anti-gunners supported the measure.
To a devoted gun rights advocate, this lineup is like the cast of a nightmare. To Barack Obama, it may be the dream team to push his gun control agenda. Disclosed Feb. 25 by Holder, this agenda includes revival of the ban on so-called “assault weapons,” ratcheting down on a mythical “gun show loophole,” and a ban on “cop-killer bullets” (whatever they are).
Odd that Obama has had to reach out to “the other Washington” for so many people to fill his administration. Since leaving office, Locke has flown under the radar as an attorney dealing with trade issues. Sims is an embattled second-term politician whose earlier efforts at higher statewide office were soundly rejected by voters. He endorsed Obama early and often, but is so disliked by his constituents that he did not appear destined for re-election this fall. Kerlikowske’s primary claim to fame is that while he’s been so busy attacking the gun rights of Evergreen State citizens, he carelessly left a loaded pistol in his department-issue car, and the gun was stolen while he and his wife were shopping on the day after Christmas four years ago. That pistol has never been found, and poses more of a threat to public safety than a thousand semi-auto rifles owned by a thousand law-abiding citizens.
Grandpa used to say that you could tell a lot about someone by the company he keeps. In Obama’s case, he is surrounding himself with a lot of people who have a collective disdain for firearm civil rights. Despite his pronouncements on the campaign trail that he supports the Second Amendment, his agenda — as disclosed by Holder — belies the rhetoric.
To her credit, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told The Hill newspaper that she is not interested in new gun control measures, at least not right now. She can remember back to November 1994, when more than 50 of her anti-gun Democrat colleagues, including the last Democrat House Speaker (coincidentally, another Washington Stater, Tom Foley) lost their House and Senate seats because they passed the Brady Law and the Clinton semi-auto ban.
My colleague, David Codrea, sounded the alarm that “assault weapon ban #2” might be on the way. It’s up to all of you to see that doesn’t happen.
