Reply #60: let's look our party's own official words

[one-eyed fat man]

From the Platform of Democratic Party 2008

"Firearms
12 We recognize that the right to bear arms is an important part of the American tradition,
13 and we will preserve Americans’ continued Second Amendment right to own and use
14 firearms. We believe that the right to own firearms is subject to reasonable regulation, but
15 we know that what works in Chicago may not work in Cheyenne. We can work together
16 to enact and enforce common-sense laws and improvements, like closing the gun show
17 loophole, improving our background check system and reinstating the assault weapons
18 ban, so that guns do not fall into the hands of terrorists or criminals. Acting responsibly
19 and with respect for differing views on this issue, we can both protect the constitutional
20 right to bear arms and keep our communities and our children safe."

From Candidate Obama's website last fall

http://obama.3cdn.net/84b2062fc4a5114715_f...

"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." (Note how cleverly he proposes to solve the machinegun problem by banning guns that are not machineguns)

In the past year, both the Secretary of State and the Attorney General have joined Senator Dianne Feinstein in claiming the Assault Weapons Ban needs to be reinstated to keep Mexican drug cartels from getting Rocket Propelled Grenades.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2...

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=69...

Let me see, party platform calls for a ban, President calls for a ban as a candidate, high administration officials call for a ban. They put it in writing, cover the airwaves in deceptive soundbites about "RPGs and machinguns" yammering about the need to reinstate the "expired ban on assault weapons," and that is not "ginning up fear that they want to take guns away from people."

They keep telling me they want to keep 'gang-bangers and Mexican drug lords from getting grenades and machineguns' by outlawing stuff which is neither and you say I am wrong to believe them? Especially after they did exactly that in 1994? Who is the delusional looney-tune?