Michelle Obama Admits That People Might Have a Legitimate Need for Self-Defense Firearms
November 25th, 2007 by Syd
A startling realization from deep in the heart of anti-gun liberalism:
Here was Obama’s discussion of gun ownership and his wife’s thoughts during a campaign stop at a middle school:
“We should be able to combine respect for those traditions with our concern for kids who are being shot down. This is a classic example of us just applying some common sense, just being reasonable, right? And reasonable would say that lawful gun owners – I respect the Second Amendment. I think lawful gun owners should be able to hunt, be sportsmen, protect their families.
“And by the way, Michelle, my wife, she was traveling up, I think, in eastern Iowa, she was driving through this nice, beautiful area, going through all this farmland and hills and rivers and she said ‘Boy, it’s really pretty up here,’ but she said, ‘But you know, I can see why if I was living out here, I’d want a gun. Because, you know, 911 is going to take some time before somebody responds. You know what I mean? You know, it’s like five miles between every house.’
“So the point is, though, we should be able to do that, and we should be able to enforce laws that keep guns off the streets in inner cities because some unscrupulous gun dealer is, you know, letting somebody load up a van with a bunch of cheap handguns or sawed-off shotguns and dumping them and selling them for a profit in the streets.” Source: The Swamp
I guess you’d have to call this progress. Too bad that hubby still doesn’t seem to get it. I really don’t see why our liberal brethren have such difficulty wrapping their minds around the notion that law-abiding people have a right and a need for armed self-defense. I was raised by a bunch of New Deal liberals who thought Franklin Roosevelt hung the moon and stars, and they all had guns and they used them. For that matter, Eleanor Roosevelt had a concealed carry permit and carried. Here’s hoping that some pillow talk in the Obama house will inspire the Senator from Illinois to share in his wife’s revelations.
See also: Barak Obama on Gun Control
A law abiding citizen who is elligible to purchase a handgun, and who completes CCW orientation/training, and successfully completes the required course of fire to qualify, shoulf be issued a CCW permit if he/she chooses to apply. California, among other State, shoud change the CCW Permit issue law to “will issue”. The current “shall issue” law is abused by law enforcement managers who choose to exercise their authority to not issue a permit simply because they feel we, the average law abiding citizen, can not use good judgement in regard to when use of a firearm to protect ones life or loved ones is appropriate.