More On Obama's CCW Misfire

Updated: Monday, April 7, 2008, 6:26 am -- I just saw this comment posted on keepandbeararms.com. "Gun Control: Barack Obama says he won't take folks' guns away as long as they're hunters. But when the hunted are his constituents, well, that's different." A chill just ran up my spine.

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The latest is Investor's Business Daily, which notes that Sen. Barack Obama stepped in it in his defense of hunters, but contempt for law abiding citizens who want to carry a gun for their personal safety.

"According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 65.7% of the U.S. population lives in the 39 right-to-carry states, and there's no indication such laws have turned our neighborhoods into the O.K. Corral. To the contrary, all the stats we've seen show a steep decline in murders and violent crimes after a state adopts a right-to-carry law. Virginia is one of those states, but the only one who had the right to carry last April 16 was Seung-Hui Cho. He shot 32 people to death on a Virginia Tech campus that had declared itself gun-free.

"One wonders if Cho would have even walked on campus with a gun if he knew his victims would be able to defend themselves. Or how the story would have been different had professor Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor who lost his life barricading a classroom door so his students could escape, had been able to fire back."

Read the full opinion piece here.