"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." -Second Amendment.
Whether you own a gun or not, a candidates views on your rights to own one if you so choose should be of some importance still. The history of the Second Amendment was to put in writing an already pre-exhisting right for an individual to possess a firearm. It was placed into the constitution to protect U.S. citizens from a corrupt government in search of absolute power. The fear was that perhaps down the line, a corrupt state might try to disarm it's citizens to impose rule through military force.
The Second Amendment was put in to the Bill of Rights to ensure that freedom could not be stripped away, or prohibited. However, it's no secret that liberals have for a long time been very anti-gun ownership. They don't find the need for an individual to provide some measure of their own security. Only makes sense right? Liberals like for everybody to depend on the State, it's how they get a large majority of their votes. They need people to be dependent, it maintains their power. The liberal will tell you to depend on the rich man for your money, depend on the State for your future, and to depend on the U.N. for your security but what about Independence? Independence to the liberal is "selfishness."
Barack Obama just happens to be one of the most liberal politicians in Washington. He is no centrist as he would have you believe, especially when it comes to your rights under the 2nd Amendment. Here is a list of what Barack Obama think about your liberty under the Second Amendment of the Constitution:
- Barack Obama voted to allow reckless lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.
- Barack Obama wants to re-impose the failed and discredited Clinton Gun Ban.
- Barack Obama voted to ban almost all rifle ammunition commonly used for hunting and sport shooting.
- Barack Obama has endorsed a complete ban on handgun ownership.
- Barack Obama supports local gun bans in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and other cities.
- Barack Obama voted to uphold local gun bans and the criminal prosecution of people who use firearms in self-defense.
- Barack Obama refused to sign a friend-of-the-court Brief in support of individual Second Amendment rights in the Heller case.
- Barack Obama opposes Right to Carry laws.
- Barack Obama was a member of the Board of Directors of the Joyce Foundation, the leading source of funds for anti-gun organizations and "research."
- Barack Obama supported a proposal to ban gun stores within 5 miles of a school or park, which would eliminate almost every gun store in America
- Barack Obama voted not to notify gun owners when the state of Illinois did records searches on them.
- Barack Obama voted against a measure to lower the Firearms Owners Identification card age minimum from 21 to 18, a measure designed to assist young people in the military
- Barack Obama favors a ban on standard capacity magazines.
- Barack Obama supports repeal of the Tiahrt Amendment, which prohibits information on gun traces collected by the BATFE from being used in reckless lawsuits against firearm dealers and manufacturers
- Barack Obama supports one-gun-a-month sales restrictions
- Barack Obama supports a ban on inexpensive handguns.
- Barack Obama supports a ban on the resale of police issued firearms, even if the money is going to police departments for replacement equipment.
Barack Obama doesn't care about the freedom's accorded to you and me under the Second Amendment. He cares about one thing and that's his liberal agenda.
