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The Second Amendment is apparently an issue that is leading some voters to support Republican John McCain for president, as evidenced by the rally for gun rights and McCain’s campaign in Grand Junction recently.
While I generally vote Democratic and am a firm Obama supporter, I too consider the right to bear arms an essential constitutional right and would also be concerned if Obama opposed the second amendment.
However, he doesn’t.
Barack is a former constitutional law professor, and is on record numerous times affirming that the right to bear arms is “an individual right.” He also acknowledges the importance of hunting to America’s sportsmen and women, and the need to conserve wildlands and the outdoors. The American Hunters and Shooters Association, which supports common-sense gun policy and the right to bear arms, endorsed Obama.
Their president Ray Schoenke said Obama would be “a strong and authentic voice for America’s hunters and shooters.”
McCain and Obama have both voted for certain limits to the Second Amendment: a federal assault weapons ban and a semiautomatic weapons ban in Illinois respectively. Gun rights advocates may want to consider more closely whether there is really a substantial difference between the two on this issue.
While I generally vote Democratic and am a firm Obama supporter, I too consider the right to bear arms an essential constitutional right and would also be concerned if Obama opposed the second amendment.
However, he doesn’t.
Barack is a former constitutional law professor, and is on record numerous times affirming that the right to bear arms is “an individual right.” He also acknowledges the importance of hunting to America’s sportsmen and women, and the need to conserve wildlands and the outdoors. The American Hunters and Shooters Association, which supports common-sense gun policy and the right to bear arms, endorsed Obama.
Their president Ray Schoenke said Obama would be “a strong and authentic voice for America’s hunters and shooters.”
McCain and Obama have both voted for certain limits to the Second Amendment: a federal assault weapons ban and a semiautomatic weapons ban in Illinois respectively. Gun rights advocates may want to consider more closely whether there is really a substantial difference between the two on this issue.
