Obama is wrong on guns.

Obama is wrong on guns

Reasons to agree Obama supported a ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns (Independent Voters of Illinois Independent Precinct Organization 1996 candidate questionnaire). So Obama thinks that only criminals should have hand guns, because laws are not going to stop them. Obama voted against a 2004 measure allowing a self-defense exception for people charged with violating local weapons bans by using a gun in their home (Obama Record May Be Gold Mine For Critics CBS News). So you should get in trouple if you protect yourself with a gun, in your own house? So I guess we should all buy base-ball bates, if you live in a bad neighborhood and want to protect yourself. People would bring guns to my school all the time. I lived in Idaho. It was no big deal. People left their gun in their gun rack in their pick-up-truck, and went shooting for pheasants after school. An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. Robert A. Heinlein Reasons to disagree: There is little a president could do about guns. We lived through Bill Clinton, we could live through Obama. Having a black president that went to Harvard might inspire enough criminals to go away from a life of crime, it might make up for the loss of safety due to his gun policy. Interest of those who agree: Hunting as recreation Hunting as food Preservation of perceived "manhood". Preservation of a way of life. They went hunting with their fathers. Self defense Interest of those who disagree: Reduction of gun violence.