Sunday, April 27, 2008

BARACK OBAMA

Obama on D.C. Gun Ban: 'I don't like taking a stand on pending cases.'

Courtesy my buddy Cam at NRANews.com, Obama talks crime in Chicago and gun control with the Sun-Times.

S-T: As a state legislator, you voted against a bill which would let people with orders of protection [against others] carry guns and another that would have barred municipalities from punishing people who kept guns in their homes. Why?

B.O.: I felt that [the first one] was a precedent for conceal-and-carry laws. There has not been any evidence that allowing people to carry a concealed weapon is going to make anybody safer. [The second one] is relevant to the D.C. handgun issue. I wanted to preserve the right of local communities to enforce local ordinances and this would have overturned municipalities being able to enforce their own ordinances. We can argue about whether the ordinances work or not. But I wanted to make sure that local communities were recognized as having a right to regulate firearms.

S-T: But you don't want to take a stand on the D.C. gun-ban law?

B.O.: I don't like taking a stand on pending cases.

If Barack Obama supports the right of local communities to limit, restrict or to essentially nullify a citizen's Second Amendment rights, does he support the right of local communities to limit, restrict or to essentially nullify a citizen's First Amendment rights? Which other parts of the Bill of Rights does he deem optional?

And if he doesn't like taking a stand on pending cases... aren't all kinds of political issues the subject of one case or another making its way through the federal court system?

04/27 05:13 PMShare