Many gun owners think Obama will try to ban gun sales
A new Gallup poll may explain recent reports of increased gun and ammunition sales in the U.S. Majorities of those who personally own a gun (55%) and of those with a gun in the household (53%), as well as 41% of all Americans, believe that President Obama "will attempt to ban the sale of guns in the United States while he is president."
1. As an Illinois legislator, Obama never met an anti-gun bill he didn't like.
2. Early in the campaign, Obama said that one of his goals when he got into office would be to reinstate the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, permanently this time.
3. Obama was one of a very few Senators who refused to sign the US Senate amicus brief supporting the plaintiff in DC vs Heller.
We gun owners don't go on whatever duckspeak and pablum the Obama machine and its media lapdogs are spouting this week. We go by past performance. Based on Obama's past performance, we have every reason to believe that Obama is the most extremely anti-gun person ever to occupy the Oval Office, ahead even of that scumbag Slick Willy Clinton. We have not forgotten his little speech to the Left Coast liberals in which he characterized folks like us as "bitter clingers," showing his contempt for the United States Constitution and the civil rights of the people, and demonstrating his belief that he is some sort of superior being.
We know what we have seen of Obama, and we don't like it. I would like to hope that he is reading the same statistics on gun and ammunition sales that we are; and that he has reached the conclusion that if attacking entitlement programs is the 'third rail' of American politics, attacking civil rights guaranteed by the Constitution is a Jovian lightning bolt that will burn a politician to fine ash.
If Obama has the good sense of the common dog, he will leave the issues of gun rights and firearms ownership strictly alone. Mind you, I'm still hoping the Republicans take back at least one chamber of Congress in 2010, so there is a much more solid road block to Obama's socialist ambitions in place for the remainder of his term.
