I’m actually happy about this endorsement. I will make sure to print it out and display it at the gun show this weekend so the bitter clingers up North will believe us when we tell them Obama will be a disaster for gun rights. Obama is running like hell from his gun record when he or his surrogates are speaking in Pennsylvania. This will actually help me:
The Obama-Biden ticket understands that the rights of law-abiding gun owners can co-exist with the reasonable restrictions which the U.S. Supreme Court recognized as “presumptively lawful” in its recent Second Amendment decision finding a general gun ban unconstitutional. As Justice Scalia stated, there is “not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever for whatever purposes.” Senator McCain once understood this concept but that “straight talk” is now silent.
Yes Pennsylvanians, Obama gets an endorsement because he believes the Second Amendment allows for the federal government to ban whole classes of commonly owned firearms. Thanks Paul, you just made my job a lot easier!
This endorsement is as dumbly against the anti-gunners own self-interest as the Washington D.C. city government pushing the D.C. v Heller case up to the Supreme Court.
Good for us!