Conservative Politics Today

At a campaign stop in PA, Barack Obama had the following exchange about guns and gun control.

A woman in the crowd told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.”

“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.

So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns.’’

I bed to differ. This can most certainly be “the” reason not to vote for him.  Of course, it’s not the “only” reason to not vote for him.

 See what Allah and Ed at Hotair have to say about this. What do you think?

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/09/06/obama-i-couldnt-take-your-guns-even-if-i-wanted-to/trackback/

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