NRA Smears Obama's Stance on Gun Ownership.

Barack Obama is trying to walk a fine line between protecting the right to bear arms guaranteed under the Second Amendment and clamping down on more than 30,000 deaths from firearms that happen every year in the United States.

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The laws Barack Obama supports that the NRA are vehemently against include sensible acts like:

* Mandatory waiting periods to purchase a gun

* Requiring citizens to actually register their firearms

* Mandatory micro stamping of guns to aid tracing weapons

* Banning inexpensive handguns that make it easier for criminals to acquire

* Limit gun purchases to one gun a month

* Require training for gun owners

* Restrict gun ownership to citizens 21 and older

* Eliminate right to carry concealed weapons

I am sure many of you have seen this on a number of other sites:NRA's slippery slope full of holes

Again we get to the "reasonable controls" and "intelligent compromises" without actually statement of what these phrases mean. The short answer is a new red-tape hassle that doesn't solve the underlying problem, and stands to create new criminals rather than punishing the ones we already have.

Consider a person who has some prohibited weapon, a magazine that is too big, a serial number that is too high, a caliber that is too scary, a grip that is too pistol-like, or some other qualifying feature. Depending on where this person lives this is either a serious crime or a big fat nothing.

Not just gun grabbers, these gun grabbers are lawyers. If you want a look at the future of gun control advocacy this is it. These guys want to nibble around the edges, attacking hunting regs, local ordinances, and the like.

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I don't know too much about the parole system, but I don't understand why a criminal would get time off for good behaviour. Criminals are sentanced for the crimes they have commited, being well behaved in prision doesn't erase those crimes.

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The author makes the best argument for keeping guns out of the workplace: the rights of business owners to run their businesses as they wish. By extension souldn't that same right extend to choices in hiring and firing employees?

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After bantering back and forth in the comments the short answer is that the Corporate Employment Lawyer wants to protect businesses. He will pay lip-service to protecting employees but that is about as far as that goes. It is clear that he doesn't know anything about private citizens successfully defending themselves with firearms, and has no statistics to back up his gun control agenda.

Oddly I entered this discussion in favor of businesses being able to make these sorts of decisions, but I have come full circle with the realization that you are simply surrendering a fundamental right to reduce the liability of the company in exchange for nothing.

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I don't how this does anything other than potentially criminalize crime victims. Would we also consider mandatory reporting of rapes or stolen cars? If someone is straw purchasing guns then build a case and go after them.

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I don't understand how it can be a 'majority' of Americans favor gun control yet all of the activists are on the pro-gun side of the argument. The article pretends that the NRA is funding gun bloggers too. Where is my check?

Update: Chicagoboyz has a more detail on this article. From the comments:

Gun control fails as a political issue because it is grounded in the elitist beliefs that ordinary, law abiding people are to stupid and incompetent to own and use guns. Leftist can’t understand why calling people stupid is a failure at the polls so they invent elaborate effects and conspiracies to explain it.

That about sums it up for me.

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I don't know how well this works. The Antis are getting PR credit for every gun they "take off of the streets" and even if you used the money to buy more guns it is still a 12 for 1 trade. I suppose if you are simply taking out the trash it doesn't hurt.

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