Reply #22: Smart?? Maybe clever

[one-eyed fat man]

The President-elect's OWN website gives military automatic weapons given as the reason, yet again, to justify a ban on guns that are not!

http://obama.3cdn.net/84b2062fc4a5114715_ftxamv9ot.pdf

Note especially the part about "As a long-time resident and elected official of Chicago, Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic weapons in the hands of criminals. Thus, Senator Obama supports making permanent the expired federal Assault Weapon Ban."

Read that again, "FULLY AUTOMATIC WEAPONS in the hands of criminals" are a problem he proposes to solve by banning guns that are not fully automatic and not in the hands of criminals.

Again, how much more directly or more plainly can he say he supports reinstating the ban on semiautomatic weapons by alluding they are machine guns?

This is a deception of the first order! Think of how many times in the past week you have read uninformed and technically incompetent posts confusing the AWB and machine guns? The confusion of the public on the issue is integral to the political calculus. They are counting on people to believe the ban is about machine guns. Nobody sits on the board of the Joyce Foundation doling out hundreds of thousands of dollars to the likes of Sarah Brady, Paul Helmke, Josh Sugermann and NOT know the difference. After all, Sugarmann spelled out the strategy in 1988.

"Assault weapons—just like armor-piercing bullets, machine guns, and plastic firearms—are a new topic. The weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons—anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun—can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. In addition, few people can envision a practical use for these weapons." -Josh Sugarmann, Assault Weapons and Accessories in America, 1988

Just because the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment was an individual right, that doesn't mean that those who have built their careers on gun control are going to give up. The very instant that they believe that they can pass an AWB and survive the next election, Reid and Pelosi will have the bill on his desk. Any doubt it won't be signed in a big Rose Garden ceremony, replete with a gaggle of cops, and a speech about how "...'weapons of war' are being taken off our streets..........?"