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June 26, 2008

Obama: Second Amendment Means Something, But Rights Can Be Bound

@ 5:41 pm by Chris Good

Barack Obama said he is glad the Supreme Court has bolstered the second amendment's legal power but stressed that its ruling does not mean the end of gun control. Obama was reacting to the court's recent gun decision on Bloomberg TV (see the video here.)

"What I've consistently said is that I believe that the second amendment means something, that it is an individual right, and that's what the Supreme Court held, so I agree with that aspect of the decision," Obama said.

"What I've also said is that every individual right can be bound by the interests of the community at large, and the Supreme Court agreed with that as well," Obama said. "It doesn't mean that local communities can't, you know, pass background checks,  that they can't, you know, make sure that they're tracing guns that are used in crimes to find out where they got them from."

"There's still room for us to have some common-sense gun laws that are also compatible with the second amendment," Obama said.
Obama said he agreed that D.C.'s gun ban, which the Supreme Court today struck down, was unconstitutional.

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  1. CRIME & GUN CONTROL

    Voted against letting people argue self-defense in court if charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home. (2004)
    Voted to let retired police and military police carry concealed weapons. (2004)
    Successfully sponsored requirement that law enforcement videotape interrogations of suspects in some serious crimes. (2003)
    Successfully sponsored law enforcement study of the race of people pulled over for traffic tickets. (2003)
    Helped pass an overhaul of the state's troubled death penalty system. (2003)
    Unsuccessfully sponsored measure to expunge some criminal records and create an employment grant program for ex-criminals. (2002)
    Unsuccessfully sponsored limit of one handgun purchase per month. (2000)
    Voted against making gang members eligible for the death penalty if they kill someone to help their gang. (2001)

    Comment by Babs — June 26, 2008 @ 7:12 pm

  2. BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA STICKS HIS FINGER TO WIND EVERY MORNING

    Comment by Babs — June 26, 2008 @ 7:13 pm

  3. He's coming after your guns, the Constitution and particularly the Second Amendment, folks. If you can't see that, you're blind. Emperor Hussein Obama will be crowned and pack the SCOTUS with elitist, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, anti-American lawyers like himself.

    Comment by LiberalsCaused911 — June 27, 2008 @ 12:07 am

  4. It is easy for elitists that have that have armed gaurds payed for by my tax dollars 24/7 to say I don't have an individual right to arm myself for protection of me and my family. I guess I am an angry christian clinging to my guns and religion. God bless America.

    Comment by David Churchman — June 27, 2008 @ 6:43 am

  5. George Washington: "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the
    people's liberty teeth (and) keystone… the rifle and the pistol are equally indispensable… more than
    99% of them [guns] by their silence indicate that they are in safe and sane hands. The very
    atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference [crime]. When firearms go, all goes,
    we need them every hour." (Address to 1st session of Congress)

    George Mason: "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." (3 Elliot,
    Debates at 380)

    Noah Webster: "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in
    almost every country in Europe." (1787, Pamphlets on the Constitution of the US)

    George Washington: "A free people ought to be armed." (Jan 14 1790, Boston Independent
    Chronicle.)

    Thomas Jefferson: "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (T. Jefferson papers,
    334, C.J. Boyd, Ed. 1950)

    Comment by Mike — June 27, 2008 @ 8:50 am

  6. Anyone have any more questions about why Comrade Obama should not be elected?

    Comment by Mark — June 27, 2008 @ 8:57 am

  7. Well if America jeeps going down this road.It Will lose Texas.We are Texans first Americans Second.Just remember Texas used to be its own country,and has the right to do so again.Per the Texas American Annexation treaty.Texas can make it without the United States, but the United States can't make it without Texas."

    - Sam Houston, first President of the Republic of Texas

    Comment by cliff — December 10, 2008 @ 12:06 am

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