Obama has a long history of anti gun support.
~Babs
Obama has a long history of trying to pass some common sense laws as regards guns along with some miscues on the issue.
Gun registration is a good idea and so is the ban of assault weapons and so are child proof locks on guns and so are gun safes and so are background checks to prevent madmen like Cho from buying a gun legally and then using it to go on a bloody rampage.
Obnama's support of concealed carry was a good move.
That all sed, Obama was wrong to support the DC handgun ban and to even consider it remotely "Constitutional" was a real fuck up by Spud's lights.
It's not "tighty righty" paranoia, it's documented fact.
No, it's pretty much RT paranoia gone wild.
Nice try at race baiting spud.
Pointing out the racism inherent in the GOP is not "race baiting".
It's a well documented fact.
See also: homophobia, sexism and anti-scientific tendencies.
If we're not vigilant, we could be neutered like the Canadians.
Canadians own as many if not more guns per capita than the US we just don't kill each other with them at the same rate.
America should take a page out of Canada's book on gun legislation. You kids would end up with far few tragic gun deaths like all these stories we read here at the Retort about kids grabbing a gun the family keeps unlocked and loaded and then wasting one of their family or friends with it.
Americans who support strict gun control laws often point to Japan and Great Britain as models. Gun control laws in those countries, however, border on prohibition, and it is not likely the heavily-armed United States will agree to adopt controls even closely resembling the British or Japanese models. Canada, on the other hand, has a uniform federal firearms control system that, while more strict than the controls in United States overall, is more lenient than some American jurisdictions. Indeed, Canada has one of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world. There are almost as many rifles per capita in Canada as in the United States.[1] Although there are important cultural differences, Canada and the United States "probably resemble each other more than any two nations on earth," observes sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset.[2] It is therefore somewhat surprising that American gun control advocates have not placed more emphasis on the Canadian model.
www.guncite.com
That all sed Spud is the proud owner of an FAC or Firearms Aquisition Certificate and finds shooting stuff to be more fun than a barrel fulla monkeys.
Guns are also, in this day and age, a neccessary component of home safety but when the thing that was supposed to keep you safe is the thing that end up causing unneccessary deaths to occur you really have to rethink and take another try at walking the fine line between the rights of gun ownership and the responsibilities of gun ownership.
Also, Spud has always held to the tenet that "a government should be more afraid of it's people's wrath than a people should be afraid of it's own government" and the "great equaliser" (as guns are sometimes called) works well in that regard.
Spud also thinks the Founding Fathers in their verbiage "a well regulated militia" understood that the right to bear arms is not a willy nilly process. Common sense restrictions on their use and sale are neccessary in order to avoid preventable tragedies.
"Happiness IS a warm gun. Bang Bang, Shoot Shoot"
~John Lennon
/Shout out to Snark fer that Kinks tunage.
Spud seriously luffs that one.
Be Well.
