Election Avoids Guns

CORRECTION 10/22/08: See "Obama's Gun Policy."

The lamestream media told you:

The gun issue may have caused both John Kerry and Al Gore their presidential election bids. President Clinton specifically attributed Gore's loss to the fears of gun owners, costing the great award-winning environmental champion the humiliating loss of his own home state and the election.

The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:

Despite a monumental Supreme Court case on the subject, and quiet rumblings about how guns are a factor in presidential races, the news media is maintaining an eerie silence on the topic of guns, gun rights, gun control and even the Olympic winners of the shooting contests (Great Britain, Germany, China and Russia were big winners, American Kim Rhode took her 4th career Olympic Medal, getting Silver in Women's Skeet).

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).

The media's highly favored candidate, African American B.H. Obama, has no published platform position on firearms. Read it for yourself. His opponent, John McCain, has a strong pro-rights position posted.

Posted platforms and performance are not always an exact match, but the difference is startling. Obama did recently publicly deny that he would take away your guns, and denied his anti-rights record of gun-ban laws he's supported, and that if gun confiscation is why you won't vote for him, change your mind, he said.

Tags: Barack Obama, John McCain

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From his "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."

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