Montana & Obama

An interesting wrinkle in the gun-rights controversy: Various Montana politicians have signed a resolution arguing that anything other than an individual-right interpretation of the Second Amendment (at issue in the forthcoming Supreme Court case Heller v. D.C.) would violate the compact between Montana and the U.S.

This is amazing, and it does me proud. Montana has provided us with John Tester, an awesome Blue Dog Democrat and much else that is good.

Here is the full text of the resolution.

While I applaud the ballsy nature of this resolution, and the validity of it, I must take a moment to think: so what if the Supreme Court screws us over and decides that it's not an individual right? The implications could be staggeringly violent in this country.

The words "the beauty of Second Amendment is that it will only be needed when they try to take it away" come to mind.

On the other hand, should the court come down on the side of an individual right, it will be interesting to see how Democrats deal with this. Especially this year, given how vulnerable Obama (and Clinton) is on the issue.

I'll be honest. I like Obama. As a self described Blue Dog Democrat, I'm for many of the same social, environmental, and political issues as Obama. But he really turns me off when it comes to gun control, and in the general election, that's going to hurt him.

And Obama is very weak on this issue.

How weak? Very weak.

OMG THEY MAKE PINK GUNS!

So in my previous post, I talked about how some in the media are taking notice that more women are getting into gun ownership, and accordingly, demanding pink guns.

Well, CNN took notice of this, and they want you to be afraid. BE VERY AFRAID OF PINK GUNS!

Hilarious. This is the worst kind of scare tactic ratings grabbing "journalism" that unfortunately, has become all too common these days in the media.

It's not even worth calling it journalism. It's one side of the argument, using scare tactics and emotional hyperbole to scare the common public about a non-existent problem.

women and guns

"You want it pink, I'll make it pink," he said. "The sky is the limit. It's like nail polish."

So the media takes notice that more women are getting into arming themselves. Politically, I can only see this as a good thing. The less the freedom to protect yourself is seen as the domain of paranoid white males, the better.

I heard Obama recently say that he doesn't want to take anybody's guns away, but that he wants to get the guns out of the inner cities. While I generally like the man for other reasons, this is one where 1) I strongly dissagree with him, and 2) I think he's a liar. What does it mean to want to "get the guns out of the inner cities"? Isn't that just code for, "blacks can't have guns but whites can"? And isn't that extremely racist?