Make no mistake about it Obama is opposed to gun control. This is one of the places where he is able to bring everybody together and give them hope. The only problem is that the togetherness occurs at a funeral.

I know longer can tell what Obama is for or against.
Vote for me OBama, I am for gun control, I am against gun control, I am for more regulations, If I am campaigning in Wyoming and Montana, I am against any regulation. Man, this guy sure know how to cover his bases huh? Typical political

What did he say? Can this guy give anyone a straight answer on anything?
Frankly, I am getting sick of him.

I like how this article completely distorts Obama. It completely leaves out the fact that he doesnt want to politicize the tragedy. It's inappropriate to bring up this issue when you are offering your condolences. For christ's sake, he went to IDAHO to talk about regulation of gun control. You can't call him a double-talker.

Few (if any) politicians have the guts to take on the gun lobby head on. Keep the money flowing and ignore what the second amendment really says, so what if people get shot!

…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

This is not a dependant clause. Everywhere else the phrase‘the people’ is used in the U.S. Constitution it refers to the individual. This sacred document is not open to interpretation its authors were more gifted then any politician on the planet today.

p.s.

And concealed carry permits are bad why?

As usual we all focus on the symptom rather than the problem.

Gun control is not the issue. People control is the issue.

We have more training and licensing requirements for drivers license ownership in this country than we have for gun ownership.

I’m a former U.S. Marine and a gun owner. I am also a moderate Republican. But I have issues with gun ownership without responsibility or accountability.

I believe as Obama does that we need no additional laws, we need only enforce the ones we have – like the concealed handgun licensing (CHL) process in Texas, where extensive gun training is required to buy or carry a concealed weapon. I think this type of law should be extended to all gun ownership – whether or not the weapon is to be concealed. IMHO.

A nice-sounding bill called the "GLOBAL Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a GLOBAL TAX on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending will then become subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. The UN, by the way, is a big part of a "World Tax" scheme they'd rather you not know about.

Obama's proposed legislation also purportedly contains a hidden gun control provision.

IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT? ANOTHER CFR NEW WORLD ORDER GLOBALIST STOOGE? GAHHHH!

WORSE, Barack Obama's foreign adviser is the ARCHITECT of the smash-and-grab genocide in the Middle East: Zbigniew Brzezinski. Obama = MORE WAR = DRAFT.

Never mind what the man says or how he says it. He'll betray us all. His voting record closely matches Hillary Clinton's. Here is the new boss, same as the old boss, DON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN.

Aren't hardcore Democrats FURIOUS at the hijacking of their party by closet Neocons??? It's time for a third party candidate. The Constitution Party. The Peace Coalition. I don't care; I just refuse to accept my nonchoices.

Now that answer is something you can dance with. I believe that's a dodge, a hedge, a non-answer, a nonsensical answer, an old style political answer and a status quo answer. Where do you think he really stands on gun control? Or is that just one of those bothersome little issues that the states take up on their on and the president who might at the very least "inspire" people in the nation to look a particular way at a significant issue ... dances away into the loving arms of the press and their inability to produce a significant "follow-up" question. Get in line for yet another Obama Press Pass on gun control.

Obama is really pathetic. He could not bother taking a break from his Wisconsin trip to take a 30 minute plane ride to visit the school when he claims that students are his biggest support base.

How people can support this megalomaniac in good conscious is beyond comprehension. He shows time and time again that he is a hypocrite.

I guess Obama's usual technique of distracting voters with another issue when things heat up against him, isn't going to work anymore.

To: WestCoastMessenger

Barack opposes gun control? Is that why he voted to ban all semi-automatics in 1998? Sounds like more gun control to me - not enforcing the existing laws.

By the way, most hunting and recreational firearms are semi-automatic.

The only problem with Obama's position is that he never mentioned what is a common sense regulation to gun control. We must learn to separate substance from his rhetoric. Again, here he is talking about things that are good to hear, things that may make you feel better but if you analyze the argument he has said nothing at all.

Well, the people and the press who are so in love with him just let this pass. they cannot make any objective analysis of obama's position because they are so much overwhelmed by his speaking abilities.

Obama has a strong record supporting gun control. He's just too classy to turn a funeral into a stump speech. He should be praised, not criticized, for avoiding the issue in this particular venue. Finally a politician with a sense of decency.

Another flip-flopper. I am from Illinois. He is totally against gun control. He knows the situation we have out here with gangs and violence. Now he is changing his stance. I am sick of this man. How much more can we take of him. AMerica wake up! This man is a phoney!!!!!!

I am sorry, I am Mary from Illinois. I meant to say he is FOR GUN CONTROL!!!!!

People need to review Obama's voting record when ever he feels like showing up. What is it that obama doesn't get about violence to our youth. Every time i watch the news theirs a drive by shooting, rampages, and aggravated assaults.
He voted against a bill that would give gang members immunity to the death penalty if involved in multiple killings. One killing is enough and the victims don't have a third chance in life. when i read it on his record it made me sick to my stomace. My cousin got murdered by a recently released on parole last december. Thank God Texas has the death penalty.
What's the use of implementing laws already in the books on background checks if this young killers usually have a good record.

From MSNBC: "Michelle Obama got a little tongue-tied -- as have others -- in Columbus, Ohio. She started off with what was going to be a bold statement. "We are going to win Iowa...Ohio,"

This is like the airline commercial:

WANNA GET AWAY?

The comment is not about asking for Obama to make a stump speech NIU. It is about him taking the time from serving himself and pay some respect to the state that elected him as their senator. I am assuming that he promised the people of Illinois change too. Any politician with his wits about him has the decency to visit his home state when it has suffered a tragedy. This is a place that has had two violent shootings during February. I also agree that since college students are the victims and mostly likely led him to victory in Illinois, he could bother to make an appearance.

he is for states and cities handling gun ownership issues in their jurisdictions. He does not believe that the federal government should make those determinations and I think that that is the exact way it should go.