Obama’s simple response: “Right.” When Mr. Obama: “One other issue that’s of great importance here in the district as well is gun control … but you support the D.C. In February, he did this himself, not something that he could blame on a staffer.ĪBC New’s local Washington, D.C. Obama personally voiced support for the D.C. handgun law is constitutional.” After the Illinois senator’s statement supporting the Supreme Court striking down the ban, the campaign quickly disowned the Chicago Tribune quote as a staffer’s “inartful attempt” to characterize his position. Obama’s campaign told the Chicago Tribune that “Obama believes the D.C. Obama consistently supported individuals’ rights to own guns and opposed the D.C. He told Fox News he had “said consistently that I believe that the Second Amendment is an individual right, and that was the essential decision that the Supreme Court came down on.” So, has Mr. Obama claimed the court’s decision merely ratified his own position. The day the Supreme Court struck down Washington, D.C.’s gun ban, Mr.

Obama “Ain’t ever going to take your gun away.” An Obama adviser, Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig, said recently on Hugh Hewitt’s national radio show that “I think that he has always been an individual rights person on the Second Amendment.” Another advisor, Professor Cass Sunstein at Harvard, told Time Magazine in June: “Obama has always expressed a belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a private right to bear arms.” The list goes on. A couple of weeks ago, Brian Schweitzer, Montana Democratic governor, told national reporters that Mr.

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