New 2nd Amendment Trap For Obama

New 2nd Amendment Trap For Obama
The Patriot Room ^ | July 16, 2008 | Bill Dupray

Obama has always been in favor of banning handguns.

In his answers to the 1998 Illinois State Legislative National Political Awareness Test, Obama said he favored a ban on “the sale or transfer of all forms of semi-automatic weapons.”

The problem with that position is that Justice Scalia's opinion stated that handguns, not just revolvers, not just semi-automatics, but handguns generally, are protected under the 2nd Amendment:

The handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of “arms” that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose. Under any of the standards of scrutiny that we have applied to enumerated constitutional rights, banning from the home “the most preferred firearm in the nation to 'keep’ and use for protection of one’s home and family,” would fail constitutional muster.

Which brings us to the new trap for the Messiah. Washington D.C. yesterday revised its gun ban to "comply" with the Supreme Court's ruling.

The legislation does not lift restrictions on semiautomatic handguns, a move that will probably land the District back in court, according to the lawyer who successfully challenged the gun ban.

So, Senator Obama, they, like you, believe that semi-automatic handguns should be banned.

The failure to lift the ban on handguns, as required by Heller, shows that the liberals in D.C. are either illiterate or are deliberately defying the Court's ruling, in which case they should be thrown in jail.

Senator Obama, what is your position now? Are semi-automatic handguns banned by Heller, or not?

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