Obama on Self-Defense


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Barron Barnett - Posted on 15 September 2008

I haven't written much lately because I've been tied up with work and making sure I graduated from college. Not to mention the fact that I've been trying to benefit my blood pressure by avoiding things that just flat out piss me right the hell off. Well I stumbled across something today that pushed my button so hard I can't stand it.

"In 2004, while running for the U.S. Senate, he[Obama] promised to bar citizens nationwide from receiving concealed-carry permits."

WHAT!? Oh so now states aren't good enough to determine how best serve and protect their own people. No one in this fine country except those "you" Mr. Obama deem fit is capable of carrying a firearm. I know for a FACT from talking to my local Sheriffs and Police force that I get considerably more range time than they do. Not only that I have a larger ammunition budget for just myself than the whole department. So you can NOT give me that crap that they are better trained.

Your statements basically say that we must depend upon the police for our protection when it has been stated by the Supreme Court that "The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation."

Obama is nothing more than a bigot who hates gun owners because they believe in doing things themselves and not depending on a socialist government for survival. Every person, and I mean everyone has a god given right to self defense with any weapon that man has created. "The right of self defense is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever … the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction."

Criminals don't follow the laws, only the law abiding. We see what his ban's on concealed carry have done to different places, why must he force us to all be complacent victims.

The media is just as much to blame however for the misconceptions about concealed carry. I just found this link. In it they list the arrest of the Appalachian School of Law shooting was due to students tackling him. I wasn't aware that using a firearm was now called "tackling".

Regarding Obama's opinion that all state concealed carry permits be abolished, does he have the power to make that a reality as president? I'm not so sure. How exactly would that happen? A federal law, preempting all state laws, that declares concealed carry illegal? An executive order? These seem unlikely, not to mention fraught with constitutional problems. I really don't see Obama having the power to do this, but I could be wrong. Of course, even if he doesn't have the power to abolish concealed carry permits, his supposedly wanting to does shed light on how he would treat gun issues he does have power over.

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Barron Barnett's picture

First I want to thank you for the comment.

While it would have to pass through congress as well. It would be a loss of a check and balance. We don't know what the house and senate will look like after this election either.

While at the same time the idea of an executive order to do it is possible, that would be quickly challenged.

The biggest problem though is that any person that feels that people have no business protecting themselves and their families and instead should rely on the state are the most evil and sinister of people.

He has hired bodyguards paid for by the tax payers to protect him, who comes to your rescue when needed.

Watch this:

if you think the police will be able to save you.

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