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Obama removes 2nd Amendment from his ISSUES webpage?

Melensdad

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Ok what is going on with this election? We had a MONUMENTAL ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court on the gun issue. The primary elections were rife with talk about guns. But NOWHERE is there any mention of guns in the press. In fact there is so little discussion about guns, except on the internet gun boards, that Barack Obama removed all mention of gun rights from his "Issues" page.
Barack Obama's ISSUES page: http://origin.barackobama.com/issues/

Contrast Obama's ISSUE page with McCain's page where the 2nd Amendment is clearly defended: http://www.johnmccain.com/Informing/issues/
I can only assume that since most of the mainstream media is comfortably in Obama's hip pocket they are playing along with him and being polite enough not remind anyone about his record on guns.

Now despite the fact that the media is not reporting on guns in regard to election politics . . . the media however continues issuing its routine national "news" reports of many minor local gun-related crimes, creating a false impression that gun violence is random (it is highly localized in "bad" neighborhoods), an intrinsic value of firearms (it is largely related to the federalized war on some drugs), and that guns should be outlawed since outlaws use them (the same as outlaws use getaway cars, stolen cash, knives, clubs, liquor, cigarettes, soft drinks, tattoos and everything else).
 
Just to set the record straight, I was apparently wrong about Obama. He didn't remove his gun positions, he removed the heading and then moved, one might suggest buried, his real anti-gun agenda under his urban policy heading . . . seems pretty slimy to me.

From Obama's "Urban Policy" Page:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama also favors commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn't have them. He supports closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. He also supports making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets."

Barack Obama and Joe Biden: The Change We Need | UrbanPolicy
 
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