KingNick865
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I didn't know there were any pro gun democrats.
Surely you jest!!!
Official Democrat Party stance on gun control!
Source: Democratic National Platform Aug 15, 2000
The recent Supreme Court decision in District of Columbia et al. v. Heller concluded: the inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right.
Another recent Supreme Court case reaffirmed previous rulings that police have no duty to protect a particular member of society, despite unusual circumstances like restraining orders:
In 1995, women in the United Kingdom were raped at the same rate as women in the United States, and women in Australia were raped nearly twice as often. Since their gun bans in 1997, rates of rape increased in both countries, while the U.S. rate declined. By 2006, women in the UK were raped twice as often, and women in Australia three times as often, as American women. Gun control has not benefited womens civil rights.
In America if you are accused of rape your chances of not being convicted are 90 per cent.
Barack Obamas AG Eric Holder has consistently championed stronger gun-control measures.
As deputy attorney general in the Bill Clinton administration from 1997 to 2001, Holder was a strong supporter of restrictive gun control.
He advocated federal licensing of handgun owners, a three-day waiting period on handgun sales, banning possession of handguns and so-called "assault weapons" by anyone under age 21, a gun show restriction bill that would have given the federal government the power to shut down all gun shows, and national gun registration.
After the 9/11 attacks, Holder wrote an opinion piece for The Washington Post arguing that a new law should give "the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms a record of every firearm sale." He also said prospective gun buyers should be checked against the secret "watch lists" compiled by various government entities.
In 2008 Holder co-signed an amicus brief in support of the District of Columbias ban on all handguns and on the use of any firearm for self-defense in the home.
He is convinced justice in America needs to be established rather than enforced; hes excited about hate crimes and enthusiastic about the constitutionally dubious Violence Against Women Act; hes a supporter of affirmative action and a practitioner of the statistical voodoo that makes it possible to burden police departments with accusations of racial profiling and the states with charges of racially skewed death-penalty enforcement; hes more likely to be animated by a touchy-feely Reno-esque agenda than traditional enforcement against crimes; hes in favor of ending the detentions of enemy combatants at Guantanamo Bay and favors income redistribution to address the supposed root causes of crime.
Equally noxious were the stealthy pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans Weather Underground terrorists associated with Obamas friends Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn. Rosenberg and Evans had been serving decades-long sentences for bombings targeting American government facilities. With Holder again helping to circumvent the pardon process and to evade objections from prosecutors, the terrorists jail terms were commuted just weeks after the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole.
Under Holders stewardship, moreover, the Justice Department chose, in the Dickerson case, to oppose its own prosecutors and seek reversal of the conviction of a bank robber whose voluntary confession had been elicited without Miranda warnings.
Taking the Justice Department's signal, the Supreme Court overruled the lower courts and vacated the conviction, upending 30 years of precedent which had held that Miranda was not part of the core Fifth Amendment guarantee.
Thanks to this ruling, rendered in the comfort of pre-9/11 complacence, terrorists tried in civilian courts which is where Obama and Holder want them to be tried will enjoy a powerful argument against the admission of critical confession evidence.
He was the key man in the pardons of a group of Puerto Rican communist terrorists!!
Holder also played a key role in the snatching of 6-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives home in April 2000. Gonzalez was sent to Cuba where his father lived, even though his mother had courageously lost her life bringing him to freedom here in America and courts had awarded custody to his blood relatives in Miami.
Although a photo clearly showed a federal agent pointing a gun at the man who was holding the terrified child, Holder claimed that the federal agents sent to capture Gonzalez had acted "very sensitively."
If Mr. Holder believes that breaking down a door with a battering ram, pointing guns at children (not just Elian), and yelling Get down, get down, we'll shoot is an example of acting very sensitively, his judgment about the responsible use of firearms is not as acute as would be desirable for a cabinet officer who would be in charge of thousands and thousands of armed federal agents, many of them paramilitary agents with machine guns. David Kopel
Obama publicly supported gun control ordinances designed to close all gun shops and ban and confiscate most guns owned by citizens of the Cook county.
"The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals." Barack Hussein Obama
He has openly stated that he wants to eliminate the Right to Carry laws that now protect more than 80% of the nations citizens. Like Rosie O'Donnell, Obama sees nothing wrong in surrounding himself with a team of armed bodyguards to protect HIS life - but you shouldn't be allowed to carry a gun to protect yours.
Just remember that there is still the matter of Supreme Court Justices. And what kind of justice do you honestly believe a President Obama will nominate?
Personally I think all pro-gun democrats should be furnished a new target pistol.
You act like people don't break from the party's position.
Oh, and by the way, real classy there.
