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To: LindyBill who wrote (266487)	9/6/2008 6:10:13 PM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794009

Boy, that wasn't a smart thing to say: >> “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ <<

To: LindyBill who wrote (266487)	9/6/2008 7:51:09 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794009

What a quote, I mean what a quote. Obama really spoke to guns and said. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress," Holy tweak.

To: LindyBill who wrote (266487)	9/6/2008 7:56:35 PM
From: D. Long	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

Not much Obama could do about taking guns away from anyone now. Scalia's majority has spoken and the onus is on the government to show a compelling rationale. I don't think "we think guns are icky" is good enough.

To: LindyBill who wrote (266487)	9/7/2008 1:21:56 PM
From: Alan Smithee	2 Recommendations Respond to of 794009

A woman in the crowd [in Duryea, PA] told Obama she had “heard a rumor” that he might be planning some sort of gun ban upon being elected president. Obama trotted out his standard policy stance, that he had a deep respect for the “traditions of gun ownership” but favored measures in big cities to keep guns out of the hands of “gang bangers and drug dealers’’ in big cities “who already have them and are shooting people.” Notice he didn't answer the question, but trotted out his standard obfuscation about having a deep respect for the traditions of gun ownership. “If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room. Ok so he claims he try to confiscate guns, but what about people who want to buy a new one? All this in addition to his history of dissembling and flipflopping on positions. I wouldn't trust the guy further than a 9mm automatic can eject a shell.