Larry Elder says: Gun control opponents are wise to fear Obama
Writing for the Los Angeles daily news last week, columnist Larry Elder noted, “Gun control opponents are wise to fear Obama.” Elder noted:
If voters give Obama four more years, he will likely have two or more Supreme Court vacancies. One or two more left-wing justices, like Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor.
And yet so many in the mainstream media like to suggest that Obama has done nothing to promote gun control. We say it’s probably just biding his time, and waiting for the right opportunity.
CNN Columnist Says Ted Nugent Should Be in Jail
Many vile, hateful and just plain disrespectful things were said about former President George W. Bush. This week liberal news talker Mike Malloy suggested that it was wrong to give former VP Dick Cheney a new heart, and implied the man should’ve been left to die.
Not because he doesn’t like Barack Obama but because he got up in front of a group of people and insinuated he would attempt to assassinate Obama if he’s re-elected. Or let’s put it this way: A man with a truckload of guns has threatened the life of our president while the country’s at war.
And yet the media pretends there isn’t a liberal bias.
Palm Beach Post Aims Editorial at NRA
In an editorial titled, “Was NRA chief right to blame media in Trayvon Martin case?” the editors of the Palm Beach Post pulled no punches, writing:
If National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre’s speech Saturday to the NRA convention in St. Louis could have been choreographed, it would have featured black clouds and lightning, with a few images of the Grim Reaper.
That seems outrageous enough, but consider the next passages:
Mr. LaPierre warned members that these are “the most dangerous times in American history.” Huh? The Civil War, the Depression, World War II, 9/11 weren’t worse?
The problem, apparently, is the Obama administration, which according to Mr. LaPierre has agents out looking to confiscate every gun in the country. Mitt Romney pandered to that sentiment, too.
It’s all bogus, but conventions are about rousing the faithful.
What is so bogus about the NRA’s statements? Here, the media seems to ignore the subtle – but still no less dangerous – gun control agenda that it often supports. As we’ve noted time and time again, President Obama has not exactly been a friend to gun owners. The media continues to suggest he’s done nothing to support gun control, but it was the president who said he was working on going control “but under the radar.”
The editorial added:
Mr. LaPierre missed the point of the Trayvon Martin controversy.
In those other cases, police have arrested suspects or are looking for them. In the Martin case, no charges were filed against the shooter, George Zimmerman, until Mr. Martin’s father raised a public protest because his son had been unarmed and walking home when the armed Mr. Zimmerman stalked the teenager, ignored a police dispatcher’s order to stop and shot Mr. Martin dead.
The problem here is that much of this is speculation. It is true that Zimmerman was not arrested. But the facts still have not been made clear, including whether “Zimmerman stalked the teenager.” Should Mr. zipper at least get his day in court before the media finds him guilty?
LA Times: Obama anti-gun? Says who?
According to the Los Angeles Times this week: “The NRA’s and Mitt Romney’s baseless hype continues to find an audience.” This editorial may suggest that President Obama is not anti-gun, and instead suggests that this is just hype from the NRA and Romney.
The editors note:
Obama hasn’t proposed any anti-gun legislation in his first term, and has rarely mentioned the topic. This makes us wonder how long the NRA and the politicians who do its bidding can continue to pretend there’s a wolf at the door before people look outside and discover that wolves are an endangered species. The answer, based on last week’s annual NRA convention, is apparently forever.
Of course this argument does not address this statement Obama made to Sarah Brady, which was that he was working on gun control, “but under the radar.” It also fails to note that the State Department ban the importation of M1 rifles from South Korea. It also fails to note anything about Fast and Furious, the ATF debacle, which allowed thousands of guns to walk to Mexico. The latter story has also been widely ignored by the media, will Obama’s culpability has never been fully made clear.
Usually a newspaper waits until the general election season to endorse a candidate, but this year it seems the Los Angeles Times is off to an early start.
NRA: Obama’s Gun Boom
Cam Edwards talks to CJ Ciaramella from The Washington Free Beacon
Bill Press: Mexicans pull the trigger; we supply the guns
In an editorial for the Orlando Sentinel Bill Press essentially blamed America for Mexico’s problem and noted that only Mexico President Felipe Calderon would stand up for gun control. Press wrote:
I suddenly heard President Calderon utter two words that are practically banned in the United States today. At least you never hear anyone talk about it. When’s the last time you heard any politician, Republican or Democrat, say the loaded words: “gun control”? Read more
John Lott: There’s no question that the media has pushed the Martin story.
Writing for FoxNews last week, John Lott made one thing clear:
There’s no question that the media has pushed the Martin story.
John Lott is one of the few writers who has noted that President Obama and the Democrats are using this as a rallying cry for gun control.
Lott offered this thought:
BusinessWeek: Mexico Blames Guns for Violence and Republicans
This week Bloomberg BusinessWeek noted the meeting between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon reporting:
The explosion of drug-fueled violence along Mexico’s border with the United States could harm relations between the two nations, President Barack Obama said Monday; Mexico’s leader retorted that much of the problem of drugs and guns begins on the U.S. side of the line.
The article also noted that Calderon continues to point blame at the United States and gun owners:
The flow of guns, especially assault weapons, from the United States to Mexico sabotages the work of his government in fighting the drug gangs, and the U.S. government has not done enough to stop it, Calderon said.
Typical nonsense and again it is interesting that this article failed to note that many of the guns used by the cartel are true military hardware not readily available to U.S. citizens. But of course that is an inconvenient truth after all.
Examiner: Obama kills one teen while mourning another
Last weekend Examiner’s Jack Cole for Tampa Social Issues Examiner, offered an interesting piece titled, “Obama kills one teen while mourning another, critics explain.” It is a thought-provoking piece that shows what an opportunist the POTUS really is, and how he truly never lets a crisis go to waste.
Cole writes:
On February 26, 2012, according to reports, Trayvon Martin was gunned down and killed in Florida. Martin, age 17, was found unarmed. Being a black teenager from Florida, his death made national headlines. This has resulted in a cable news media frenzy. There is much controversy regarding his death but one thing is certain:
The opportunistic President Obama and propaganda-filled media wasted no time using this tragedy to further racially divide this country. Read more
MinnPost Blog Asks: “If mandatory gun ownership, why not mandatory insurance?”
Last week the MinnPost blog noted an interesting law that is being proposed in South Dakota:
When state Rep. Hal Wick introduced a bill last year to require most adult South Dakotans to own guns, he didn’t think the legislation would pass, didn’t think it was constitutional and wasn’t even promoting gun ownership.
His real purpose was to oppose the mandated insurance coverage in President Obama’s health care law.
But here is the really interesting passage in this piece:
A 1792 federal law called for “every free able-bodied white male citizen” ages 18 through 44 to be enrolled in a state militia and to “provide himself with a good musket or firelock,” along with a bayonet and ammunition.
This is something that those anti-gun types who try to suggest that the Second Amendment meant “militia” as in National Guard and that it doesn’t apply to individual gun ownership.
Still an interesting take on two very hot button issues.
