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Edited on Fri Sep-26-08 08:04 AM by derby378
Back in April of this year, James Oliphant of the Washington bureau of the Chicago Tribune gave me a little space on his blog where I voiced my concern that Democrats on Capitol Hill "cannot afford to let themselves be identified as 'gun-grabbers'" if they want America to change for the better. It remains my fervent affirmation that changing the Democratic Party's view on the Second Amendment is the surest way to enable Democrats to bring change to America.
But when Barack Obama delivered his historic acceptance speech at Invesco Field in Denver at the end of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Paul Helmke of the Brady Center was on-hand to keep watch over Obama, playing up Obama's statement, "don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals." That's not change; that's more of the same.
Ray Schoenke of the American Hunters and Shooters Association, which identifies itself as a "gun rights" organization, has stated that Obama "gets it" on the Second Amendment; but at the same time, Schoenke himself is on the record stating that "no one needs an assault weapon." That's not change; that's more of the same.
When Third Way policy wonks, in their "Taking Back the Second Amendment" policy memo, state that "The problem that Democrats have on the gun issue has far less to do with the typical policies they espouse than the rhetoric they employ," thus implying that they can sell Americans the same failed gun policies by putting them in a shiny new box with a pink bow on top, that's not change; that's more of the same.
After telling various elected Democrats that he wasn't taking anyone's guns, Barack Obama then told Field and Stream magazine that he considered a ban on semi-automatic firearms to be "common-sense gun control." That's not change; that's more of the same.http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9/19/10253/0589/475/603633
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