Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 9:24:18 PM
I wrote about this in June,
and it’s on the level. Rather than rewrite the same post, just click
the link and get the background on Hale DeMar and Wilmette’s attempt to
charge him with the crime of defending himself. Where does Barack
Obama come into the story? He was on the wrong end of a lopsided 41-16
vote on a bill that didn’t even remove Wilmette’s gun ban, but only
prevented prosecution in case of real self-defense. This would have
been a great example of bipartisanship — except Obama voted with the
minority of the party to keep prosecuting people who had the temerity
to defend themselves.
The vote on SB2165 and Obama’s continuing efforts to keep laws in place to prosecute victims
demonstrate that Obama has tried hard to mislead voters on his
hostility towards gun ownership. He was in the minority of his own
party on this issue. That makes him an ideologue, not a post-partisan
moderate.