You Have The Right But Government’s Right Is Bigger

As time ticks away and candidates speak, we learn more about them. I once read where a guy said the easiest way to get information out of somebody is to just shut up and let them talk. Talking is cheap and double talking is the strength of a slimy politician - in other words all politicians.

On Tuesday I told you that Mr. Obama stated publicly that he believed in an individual’s right to keep and bear arms. In that article I shared information I got from David Bernstein about the days when Barack Obama was a state senator in Illinois and the support he gave for gun control.

It now seems that Barack Obama has more double speaking as is pointed out by Ken Blackwell in his article at Town Hall. According to Blackwell’s article, on the same day that Obama announced his support of an individual’s right to own a gun he also stated publicly that he support the current gun ban in Washington, D.C.

Because later in that same story it says that in the same news conference where he spoke of an individual right in the Second Amendment, Mr. Obama also said he supports the DC gun ban. This is the absolute ban on handguns and readily usable firearms in the city of DC that is at issue in the case District of Columbia v. Heller, currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.

I have said for some time now that eventually, or at least hopefully, the candidates were going to have to seriously address the Supreme Court’s decision to hear District of Columbia vs. Heller, the D.C. Gun Ban Case. Heller, et. al., filed suit claiming that the District of Columbia’s ban on owning a gun was unconstitutional. A District Court agreed with that and now the Supreme Court of the United States has agreed to hear the appeal.

How can anyone in good conscience, in the same moment of speaking, say they support an individual right to own a gun and then voice support for the D.C. gun ban? That answer is simple really. It seems Obama believes that government is of and by the people but that government is bigger and badder than the people. He must believe that the power of government is bigger than any silly old document called the Bill of Rights.

Blackwell points out the real thoughts of Obama.

Yet while Mr. Obama says he supports your Second Amendment rights, he also says he supports that gun ban. He went on to say that local governments should be able to enact any gun control laws they consider necessary to end gun violence, and that any such measures are constitutional.

Is this what we would have to look forward to should Obama become the next president of the United States? Is this the kind of president we want? One that will out of one side of his mouth claim that we have the right to free speech while at the same time giving government the power to shut us up whenever he saw fit? As Ken Blackwell states, will we continue to have the right to free worship but yield the power to Obama so that he can shut down the churches should he deem it in the best interest of us ignorant people?

Barack Obama has made it perfectly clear that he is willing to say what he thinks sounds good and right by promising us the right to keep and bear arms. At the same time he has made it perfectly clear that he is not willing for all the people to retain the power over government. He obviously believes that government must retain the power to force the will of the people, that government must have the power to give and take and administer those rights to us as deemed appropriate by government.

This is very scary and extremely disturbing.

Tom Remington