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"Yes We Can . . . Ban Guns"--Obama Announces Gun Ban Agenda Before The
Final Vote Count Is In

Friday, November 07, 2008


Senator Barack Obama's presidential campaign slogan, "the audacity of
hope," should have instead been "the audacity of deceit." After months
of telling the American people that he supports the Second Amendment,
and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Obama
transition team website announced an agenda taken straight from the
anti-gun lobby--four initiatives designed to ban guns and drive
law-abiding firearm manufacturers and dealers out of business:

"Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent." Perhaps no
other firearm issue has been more dishonestly portrayed by gun
prohibitionists. Notwithstanding their predictions that the ban's
expiration in 2004 would bring about the end of civilization, for the
last four years the nation's murder rate has been lower than anytime
since the mid-1960s. Studies for Congress, the Congressional Research
Service, the National Institute of Justice, the National Academy of
Sciences, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have
found no evidence that gun prohibition or gun control reduces crime.
Guns that were affected by the ban are used in only a tiny fraction of
violent crime-about 35 times as many people are murdered without any
sort of firearm (knives, bare hands, etc.), as with "assault weapons."
Obama says that "assault weapons" are machine guns that "belong on
foreign battlefields," but that is a lie; the guns are only
semi-automatic, and they are not used by a military force anywhere on
the planet.

"Repeal the Tiahrt Amendment." The amendment--endorsed by the
Fraternal Order of Police--prohibits the release of federal firearm
tracing information to anyone other than a law enforcement agency
conducting a bona fide criminal investigation. Anti-gun activists
oppose the restriction, because it prevents them from obtaining
tracing information and using it in frivolous lawsuits against
law-abiding firearm manufacturers. Their lawsuits seek to obtain huge
financial judgments against firearm manufacturers when a criminal uses
a gun to inflict harm, even though the manufacturers have complied
with all applicable laws.

"Closing the gun show loophole." There is no "loophole." Under federal
law, a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to
whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. A
person who is not a dealer may sell a gun from his personal collection
without conducting a check. Gun prohibitionists claim that many
criminals obtain guns from gun shows, though the most recent federal
survey of convicted felons put the figure at only 0.7 percent. They
also claim that non-dealers should be required to conduct checks when
selling guns at shows, but the legislation they support goes far
beyond imposing that lone requirement. In fact, anti-gun members of
Congress voted against that limited measure, holding out for a broader
bill intended to drive shows out of business.
"Making guns in this country childproof." "Childproof" is a codeword
for a variety of schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by
imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements, such as
biometric shooter-identification systems. While no one opposes keeping
children safe, the fact is that accidental firearm-related deaths
among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the
numbers of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today, the
chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than
one in a million.
Political Correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional,
illogical liberal minority, and rabidly promoted by an
unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the
proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.