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Originally Posted by aceventura3
This is a long thread and I have not read it all, but I was wondering if someone can translate Obama's position for me. Does Obama support the right of normal adult citizens, without criminal records, to own handguns specifically and firearms in general?
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This is a pretty good interpretation of Obama's views, albeit from a liberal perspective:
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[Obama] declined, just as the Bush Administration did, to take a position on whether the DC gun ban violates the 2nd Amendment. He said instead that states and cities should have broad latitude to regulate guns—even if the Constitution guarantees an individual right to own them.
“The city of Chicago has gun laws, so does Washington, DC,” Obama said. “The notion that somehow local jurisdictions can't initiate gun safety laws to deal with gang bangers and random shootings on the street isn't borne out by our Constitution.”
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