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Obama is gun owners' most dangerous enemy

| February 9, 2012 6:00 AM

Obama has spent his entire career seeking to eliminate our right to keep and bear arms. His record proves it.

• 1996 — Obama endorsed a total ban on the manufacture, sale, and possession of handguns.

• 1998 — Obama endorsed a ban on the sale, transfer of all semi-automatic firearms.

• 1999 — Obama supported a 500-percent increase in federal taxes on ammunition.

• 2003 — Obama voted to ban single-shot, over-under, side-by-side shotguns.

• 2004 — Obama stated the right to carry should be banned nationwide. He even said you shouldn’t be allowed to have a gun in your home for self-defense.

• Before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Washington, D.C.’s ban on in-home firearms for self-defense, Obama called it constitutional.

• Obama, as an Illinois legislator voted against a bill exempting residents using a gun for self-defense in their home from prosecution for violating local handgun bans.

• Obama has filled his cabinet with anti-gun extremists.

• Obama has appointed two anti-gun justices to the Supreme Court.

• Obama has called on the Senate to ratify a OAS treaty, forcing registration of all firearms and ammunition in an international database.

• Obama supports the U.N. arms trade treaty, reversing the official U.S. position against it.

Scary, you bet. If you value your Second Amendment rights, vote Obama out in November. Worse than Jimmy Carter? Yes, much worse and much more dangerous.

PHIL POUTRÉ

Cocolalla