Sportsmen for Obama? - Finding Info - Constitutional Right to Sporting Goods

Finding Info - Constitutional Right to Sporting Goods

Friday, 04 April 2008

The quote?

Protecting Gun Rights

Respect the Second Amendment: Millions of hunters own and use guns each year. Millions more participate in a variety of shooting sports such as sporting clays, skeet, target and trap shooting that may not necessarily involve hunting. As a former constitutional law professor, Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms. He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting. He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and commonsense regulation.

Where to start?

The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting. Yet, there it is in sentence number one. But I guess Obama does not believe in self defense or protecting his family. You can do that when the Secret Service has your back.
Sentence two: suck up to the hunters by recognizing them.
Sentence three: Obama was a Lecturer then Senior Lecturer; aka a professor, not to be confused with a tenure track Professor. He was an part-time lecturer. If you examine his opinions on gun control, you will find that his great respect for the Second Amendment amounts to a small hill of beans. That individual right he speaks of can be overridden by local law, like the D.C. gun law which he believes to be constitutional .
Sentence four: It appears that Barack will only protect our Second Amendment rights within his narrow definition of what it is all about: sporting goods. Do you think he will support my right to own a bowling ball?
Sentence five: Guess who gets to define "reasonable and commonsense"?

Barack said it. You don't have to take my word for it.

Correction: According to the University of Chicago , Obama was a Senior Lecturer, which in their parlance is a non tenure track professor. Thanks to the reader.

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