A communique from my old buddy Al, which came with an attached magazine cover (American Rifleman, November 2008), which extolled the horrors of a President Obama where gun rights are concerned:
Paul... I do not know how else to say this, except to say I have great misgivings regarding Obama's intentions. He is, simply put, not good for this country and its people. I am ashamed of the Democrats and what they have become, and what they are doing to America, and how it all is viewed by other 'stinking' countries...
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Al, I recall the same hysteria about Bill Clinton... And we all suffered so mightily in the '90s, didn't we?
Clinton didn't take our guns away. Jimmy Carter didn't take our guns away. Lyndon Johnson didn't. JFK didn't, either. Neither did Harry S Truman or Franklin Roosevelt. Simply put, no Democrat has ever taken our guns away. It's propaganda to say that Obama will, and actually, it's about the most scurrilous, un-American thing that can be said about any president.
If anyone has damaged our fundamental rights - wiretapping, torture, overturning posse comitatus - it's the Bush administration. Here's a more interesting question: Name the last Republican who did NOT leave the Oval Office and the United States in a complete shambles at the end of his term...
You can't. One doesn't exist, not even the first Republican, Abraham Lincoln. But I still think Honest Abe would be proud of us today, on the brink of putting a Black man in office. That reflects the words of the Constitution - that all men are created equal.
As for the Second Amendment, there's nothing that Obama or anybody could do that would make it past the Supreme Court. The only Justices who might retire at this point are liberal ones, which a president Obama would replace (obviously) with younger appointees - apples for apples.
Basically, there's no chance of the Second Amendment being overturned in my lifetime. Don't buy into the right-wing hype, Al. It's not worth the price of admission anymore.
pH 1o.19.o8
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