Obama’s confused on guns

Associated Press steps out of their usual Obama-loving selves to recount an interview Obama did in February;

 The Democrat’s campaign said a spokesman made an “inartful” statement when he said in November that Obama believed the D.C. law was constitutional. But Obama himself did not correct a debate moderator who repeated the position in February.

“You said in Idaho recently, I’m quoting here, ‘I have no intention of taking away folks’ guns.’ But you support the D.C. handgun ban and you’ve said that it’s constitutional,” said the moderator, Leon Harris of Washington television station WJLA. Obama nodded as Harris spoke, nodding and saying, “Right, right.”

“How can you reconcile those two different positions?” Harris asked.

Obama answered that the United States has conflicting traditions of gun ownership and street violence that results from illegal handgun use. “So, there is nothing wrong, I think, with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets,” Obama said.

The Obama campaign argued that Obama was simply acknowledging the question by saying “right.”

The DC ban MADE handguns illegal – guns that weren’t illegal before the law were the guns that were taken off the streets. Did the gun ban take guns off of the streets of DC? Nope. According to the DC cops statistics, about 2,000 guns are “recovered”  every year – that’s six guns every day.

All the DC ban did was disarm law-abiding citizens.

Of course, AP could be just trying to reassure Obama’s base that he’s still on their side.

Me? I’m waiting for our resident law school grad, TSO, to tell us what the USSC really said in his promised long post on Monday when he’s done knocking his dimpled balls around in New England this weekend.

Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Politics