Constant Conservative

I was over at the new WhiteHouse.gov site yesterday and read about a number of things (including the subject of this post). It would seem as though much of the campaign information from change.gov was simply copied and pasted into a new template.

Confederate Yankee has a few thoughts on how President Obama’s statements regarding the Second Amendment do not match up with reality:

Despite numerous public claims in the past that he would leave gun owners alone, reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban and enacting other restrictions are very much on Barack Obama’s “Urban Policy” agenda.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/urban_policy/

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.

There is much more information, addressing the above policy statement point by point, at the link. The truth seems to be that President Obama has not moderated in the least the positions which he supported while on the board of the Joyce Foundation from 1994 to 2002 (Wikipedia).