Hey Travis! Happy New Year! Good to see ya!
Keith On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/12/the-obama-administration-is-planning-a-second-term-attack-on-gun-rights/#ixzz1hwZOrx3q > > **** > > *Obama administration is planning a second-term-attack-on-gun-rights***** > > **** > > Obama administration officials are deliberately keeping gun owners in the > dark about the president’s gun-control agenda as we head into next year’s > national election, because administration officials know that when NRA > members and gun owners show up at the polls en masse, anti-gun candidates > lose.**** > > The Obama campaign’s strategy goes like this:**** > > 1. Neutralize gun owners and NRA members as a political force in the > upcoming national election by pretending to be pro-gun or at least not > focused on pushing a gun-control agenda;**** > > > 1. With gun owners neutralized, Obama will be able to win the > election. After the president is re-elected, he won’t have to answer to > voters because he won’t have to face another re-election battle;**** > > > 1. Launch a full-scale, all-out assault to rip the Second Amendment > out of the Bill of Rights through legislation, litigation, regulation, > executive orders and international treaties — in short, every lever of > power at the administration’s disposal.**** > > Barack Obama spent his entire political career proudly and publicly > pushing for the most radical anti-gun positions you can imagine. He > endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale and possession of handguns. > He opposed right-to-carry laws. He voted to ban nearly all commonly used > hunting-rifle ammunition.**** > > During the presidential primary debates, Obama even vowed to re-impose the > discredited Clinton gun ban, which banned many commonly owned firearms used > for hunting and self-defense.**** > > Obama hasn’t had a sudden change of heart; rather, he’s making a purely > political calculation by staying quiet on the gun issue until the time is > right. In the meantime, he’s gearing up for his second-term assault on the > Second Amendment in a number of ways.**** > > Just consider …**** > > - Obama loaded his administration with anti-gun zealots bent on > destroying our Second Amendment freedoms.**** > > > - With the help of his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, Obama made > the U.S. an active partner to the U.N. gun-ban treaty. The U.N. will unveil > this unmitigated attack on our sovereignty this summer and the Obama > administration has vowed to implement it.**** > > > - Obama appointed two anti-Second Amendment Supreme Court justices and > continues to flood our lower courts with dozens of anti-gun, activist > judges.**** > > > - With the help of his attorney general, Eric Holder, Obama led a > campaign to demonize law-abiding gun owners, claiming our Second Amendment > rights were to blame for drug violence in Mexico. And in fact, emails > recently released by the Justice Department prove that operation “Fast and > Furious” was a deliberate attempt to build the case for a gun-control > agenda.**** > > > - Obama unilaterally imposed gun registration in four border states — > requiring gun dealers to register the sales of any law-abiding citizen who > purchases more than one semi-automatic rifle within one week.**** > > It isn’t hard to see the writing on the wall. The actions that President > Obama has taken so far in his presidency clearly show his disdain for the > Second Amendment and hint at his plan to gut our firearm freedoms in his > second term.**** > > But the key to President Obama’s strategy is keeping gun owners complacent > for now.**** > > After all, Obama knows what happened in 1994, when the politicians who > voted for Clinton’s gun ban were swept out of Congress. Even Clinton > admitted the NRA was the reason Democrats lost their 40-year lock on > control of the U.S. House of Representatives.**** > > Obama saw what happened in 2000, when Al Gore built his campaign on a > platform of gun control and then watched as the NRA and gun owners derailed > Gore in the battleground states of Arkansas, West Virginia and even his > home state of Tennessee — costing him the White House.**** > > Obama administration officials know that it’s good politics to avoid > making gun control a public issue. They hope that they can lull gun owners > into a false sense of security and then play us for fools in the 2012 > election. NRA members, gun owners and liberty-minded Americans should not > be fooled. Next year’s presidential election will be a referendum on our > freedom.**** > > *Wayne LaPierre is the executive vice president and chief executive > officer of the National Rifle Association of > America<http://home.nra.org/#/home> > .***** > > > > **** > > > > > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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