That was quick.
Senator McCain wasted no time in going after the anti-gun Obama:
Unlike Senator Obama, who refused to join me in signing a bipartisan amicus brief, I was pleased to express my support and call for the ruling issued today. Today’s ruling in District of Columbia v. Heller makes clear that other municipalities like Chicago that have banned handguns have infringed on the constitutional rights of Americans. Unlike the elitist view that believes Americans cling to guns out of bitterness, today’s ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right — sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly.
Outstanding.
Just one more reason for Obama to continue ducking one-on-one debates with McCain — so he doesn’t have to answer to his long and detailed anti-second amendment stances and opinions (like wanting to ban all semi-automatic weapons, which would mean nearly all handguns. Which the SCOTUS just ruled against.)
McCain should beat Obama about the head with this at every opportunity. Especially in rust-belt and southern states. Where, you know, we cling bitterly to our guns and our religion. And the rest of the Constitution, too.
(h/t Hot Air)
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Touche’
That’s going to leave a mark on Barry’s butt!
Robbie…Quickly off subject…I was back in the Capital City yesterday for a visit. My buddy and I put in his jet skis at the 360 bridge and did the cruise up Lake Austin to the Low Water Bridge below Mansfield Dam. The lake was pretty smooth so we were able to book! Looked down at one point and I was cruising along at 60! We turned around and ran the entire way down to the Hula Hutt for dinner. All in all, it was one of those days that reminded me why I enjoyed living in Austin.
Then there is the reason I left Austin: the traffic still sucks! I was back in town for less than 5 minutes, when I started flipping off stupid people in their sub-compacts, talking on the cell phone and driving 55 in the left-hand lane of 183.
It’s the vision I have of the things we could lose under Obama that makes me realize I have no choice but to vote for McCain. Damn.
Henh.
B-HO, such an empty suit, and he is also the one who voted against stiffer sentencing guidelines for gang related violent crime in his carpetbagged town of Chicago.
If you haven’t seen it, Dennis Miller pwned B-HO.
anti-gun Obama
Look, I know you want to win this election but why not stick to praising the merits of your candidate and not making up crap about his opponent.
Obama immediately released a statement in support of the decision and before that his website stated his support of the right of gun ownership.
[Editor --- Because his words are empty compared to his actual record on gun control. He's the man who said that he wants to prohibit ALL semi-automatic weapons. Which means all hand guns. Besides his past words belie his new found respect for gun ownership.]
Henh…yeah, B-HO was wearing shower sandals in that statement released yesterday, it is the campaign season, after all.
GOA.
NRA-ILA
I forgot – what am I supposed to be afraid of today again?
Now that more law-abiding citizens are allowed the right to own and use handguns to protect themselves (and possibly even you Pat, though I wouldn’t bet on it) — you have even less to be afraid of than you did yesterday.
Robbie, I can’t wait to see those handgun deaths plummet in the wake of this ruling! In fact, I don’t believe there was any significant impact from banning gun sales in small islands of the country so I doubt we’ll see any changes in the rate of handgun violence whatsoever.
In any case I, for one, am thrilled that conservatives are speaking so energetically in favor of judicial activism and expansive interpretations of the Bill of Rights. Fair enough. Liberals have argued for expansive interpretations of the other amendments too- welcome to the party.
N2: Scalia in his ruling notes that limitations on gun ownership are constitutional. Obama’s support of limitations is not inconsistent with that interpretation.
Confusing strict interpretation with activism is childish.
Scalia’s ruling cites specifics of not allowing felons, mentally impaired, etc. B-HO’s positions are well established, irrespective of the election cycle spin he wishes to fool the voters with today.
Obama had greater role on liberal survey.
So how does this survey by B-HO reflect in anyway, the same as Scalia’s position?
A “strict construction” would take seriously the clause “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” and would prioritize the Constitutional protection of rocket launchers and tanks- not shotguns.
Seems very faithful to the original intent, and the letter of the constitution. Only a liberal could see anything activist in the courts ruling, which of course their was activism, but the four liberal ideologue justices weren’t enough. In a sane court, the ruling would have been 9-0.