Here’s the Associated Press headline that appeared just 2 hours ago:
Obama Supports Individual Gun Rights
And then here’s what followed:
The senator, a former constitutional law instructor, said some scholars argue the Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees gun ownerships only to militias, but he believes it grants individual gun rights.
“I think there is an individual right to bear arms, but it’s subject to commonsense regulation” like background checks, he said during a news conference.
He said he would support federal legislation based on a California law that would facilitate immediate tracing of bullets used in a crime. He said even though the California law was passed over the strong objection of the National Rifle Association, he thinks it’s the type of law that gun owners and crime victims can get behind.
In case you missed that translation, that means we have an individual right – said because it will win votes – BUT he isn’t going to let us have them – of which we will find out after he becomes president.
Tom Remington
