The president of the Brady Campaign, a leading gun control advocacy group, today gave President Obama an 'F' for his lack of gun control efforts since taking office (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/01/brady_campaign_gives_obama_an.html):
QuoteRather than showing leadership by calling for the stronger laws Candidate Obama had professed to support, the White House muzzled cabinet members who called for sensible gun laws. Administration officials parroted NRA slogans to just "enforce the law on the books," even though there are few such laws and those are riddled with loopholes. It is no wonder that one pro-gun writer remarked that the NRA "should erect a statue of Barack Obama in front of its D.C. headquarters."
So what's up with that? I though Obama was coming to take our guns away. Does this mean the price of ammunition will drop soon? Or is it all just part of his evil plan to mislead us right up to the jackbooted midnight raids?
Even his friends hate him [rofl2]
Are they right?
The Obama administration has decided to spend their linited political capital on the Health Care issue first, then Cap & Trade, then (supposedly) Immigration Reform. With is now-weakened majority in the Congress made up of so-called "centrist" Democrats, he cannot afford to push gun control at this time. Nevertheless, he is on the record as saying he does not believe the 2nd Amendment protects an individual's right to bear arms and has come down on the anti-gun side of every case that he has commented on since entering public life.