"I believe in the Second Amendment, and if you are a law-abiding gun owner, you have nothing to fear from an Obama administration! I mean this has been this has been peddled again and again…
"I’ll be honest, and I’m sure there’s some NRA members here," Obama continued. "Their general attitude is 'Look, we don’t want anything, and if you even breathe the word "gun control" or "gun safety," then you must want to take away everybody’s guns.' Well, that’s just not true...
"The bottom line is this. If you’ve got a rifle, you’ve got a shotgun, you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it away. Alright? So they can keep on talking about it but this is just not true. And by the way, here’s another thing you’ve got to understand. Even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn’t get it done. I don’t have the votes in Congress."
“This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of sportsmen back there. I’m not going to take away your guns."
Politicians, especially those with law degrees, have an natural inclination to believe voters are stupid.
First, when you hear a Democrat talk about the second amendment, you'll hear words like "sportsmen" and "rifles" and "shotguns". You'll never hear the words "handguns" and "self defense" in the same sentence. You see, it's okay to use "guns" (rifles and shotguns) to shoot your next mooseburger, but it's totally improper to own or use a handgun for self defense.
Second, to say "Even if I wanted to take it away..." exhibits either a complete ignorance of our constitution (unless he's proposing revisiting the second amendment) or stupidity of the highest order. "Even if I wanted to..."??? If Sarah Palin made a similarly idiotic statement at a campaign event you could bet it would be a page one story.
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