We’ve all seen the news stories about how retail sales of firearms have been at record levels ever since Barack Obama won the election. Two primary reasons have been cited for this spike in ownership, uncertainty about the economy leading to fears of increased crime and the concern that the Obama administration will move to reinstate the "Assault Weapons Ban" which expired in 2004.
Many of those stories have quoted anti-gun pundits as saying gun owners are being paranoid and that the new government isn’t out to ban guns. This claim was repeated when U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said, "as President Obama indicated during the campaign, there are just a few gun-related changes that we would like to make, and among them would be to reinstate the ban on the sale of assault weapons."
About a month later, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed that claim when she opined, "I think these assault weapons, these military style weapons, don’t belong on anyone’s street." She also noted, "We’re going to talk to the Congress, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. It’s a very heavy lift." It’s a heavy lift because the People don’t want more of their rights taken away.
Now, after letting his administration hammer away at the issue, President Obama let his true feelings be known during a press conference yesterday.
"I continue to believe that we can respect and honor the Second Amendment right in our Constitution — the rights of sportsmen and hunters and homeowners that want to keep their families safe — to lawfully bear arms, while dealing with assault weapons that, as we know here in Mexico, are used to fuel violence," Obama said.
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The last president to lie to the American people was impeached. Obama must have been directing this particular lie to Mexican citizens. It is a lie because in the United States, gun that were covered by the expired AWB accounted for a very small percentage of all gun related crimes, hardly qualifying them to "fuel violence." It is also a lie because his administration continues to perpetuate the myth that 90% of all weapons used in the Mexican Drug Wars come from the United States. All people have to do is watch news footage or read articles showing automatic rifles, grenades, explosives, and RPGs being used, none of which are readily available in the U.S.
Traffickers have escalated their arms race, acquiring military-grade weapons, including hand grenades, grenade launchers, armor-piercing munitions and antitank rockets with firepower far beyond the assault rifles and pistols that have dominated their arsenals.
Most of these weapons are being smuggled from Central American countries or by sea, eluding U.S. and Mexican monitors who are focused on the smuggling of semiautomatic and conventional weapons purchased from dealers in the U.S. border states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
So, while official are looking at and blaming the U.S. for the smuggling, the real gun trafficking is happening behind their backs. Of course, the real issue isn’t where the guns are from but finding an excuse to further infringe gun rights in this country. That’s been the goal all along, and President Obama isn’t giving up.
"I have not backed off at all from my belief that the assault weapons ban makes sense," Obama said, adding that he is not "under any illusions that reinstating that ban would be easy."
If only those pesky American citizens would stop insisting that the U.S. Constitution be followed! Our rights and freedoms can’t be taken away without a fight, and right now all that stands between an increasingly socialistic government bringing their personal brand of change to this country and a two hundred year old document is the People willing to defend it. Obama laments that getting his way won’t be easy. Taking rights away isn’t supposed to be.
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