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Re: Conservative Hypocrisy in vetting Obama
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Originally Posted by RFK1968
If you have one person with a gun, and that person is firing a gun, the odds are theoretically lower that bystanders will be shot, than if you have two people with guns shooting at each other. I'm not even against concealed-carry laws. I don't care if responsible people carry guns. But I think it's pretty unfair to suggest that measures Obama took to decrease gun violence in Illinois should be used to suggest that Obama's going to revoke everyone's gun rights.
And calling Obama a liar because he doesn't equate the use of assault weapons with hunting and target-shooting is also unfair, in my opinion. As I said before, if hunters decided they wanted to start using bazookas and land mines to attack their game, would Obama be a liar if he was opposed to it? I think there is a gray area here that isn't being recognized. Obama's support of hunters and target shooters is not unconditional. But he's not going to take away people's rights to carry a gun.
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Why doesn't Obama (or any candidate) start having a platform to crack down on illegal ownership and carrying of firearms? That seems like a very good issue to add to a platform. The only votes they would lose are the criminal sect (and the ones that can't vote because of prior incarcerations don't matter anyway). Then any fear mongering about innocent bystanders being shot by lawful carriers would be eliminated.
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