Friday, 4 April 2008
Obama Stands Against Concealed Carry Laws
« Quick Look At Democratic U.S. Senate Primary | Main | How Do You Know It Is A Good Budget? »Obama claims to be a new generation of politician. Unfortunately on all the issues he seems to be an nothing more than an old school liberal. Take his stance on concealed carry permits recently in Pennsylvania.
"I am not in favor of concealed weapons," Obama said. "I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
Those words sound eerily similar to the argument the left made back in....1990. The problem is many states have enacted concealed carry laws since then. In every case there has been no "atmosphere were more innocent people could get shot".
Kentucky is a perfect example. They passed the concealed carry law back in 1996 among claims of a return to the wild wild west. Innocent people would be caught in the cross fire they claimed. It never happened.
It boggles my mind that Obama could cling to such liberal dogma well after those "fears" have been proved to be unfounded. How can he be a new politician when he is blind to the mounting evidence that he is wrong on this simple second amendment issue? Probably because he isn't a new politician. He is a just another liberal Democrat who has wrapped himself in pretty rhetoric.
