Obama, Liar

Obama, Liar

I mentioned back in February that Obama had come to Boise and gave a speech in which he said, "I'm not going to try and take away your guns."

And so the first day of his Presidency, he shows that he is a liar. From the White House's Urban Policy page:

Address Gun Violence in Cities: Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.

I suppose that you could argue about whether closing the "gun show loophole" (which is really the private sale loophole) violates the Second Amendment; there are ways to do this that aren't necessarily a violation. You can argue about whether it is possible to make guns "childproof" without making them adultproof; so far, I have seen no technology that works well enough to do one without doing the other. That's why most "childproof" gun technology laws exempt guns sold to police departments. But the assault weapons ban is clearly an attempt to take away guns.

Obama lied to the hard left about national security and foreign policy. He lied to gun owners. And I suspect that he lied to a lot of other groups that are going to start wondering what happened over the next few months.