04-25-2011, 07:03 PM
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warrior bodhisattva
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You mean like this, Will?
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NRA chief says Obama re-election threatens guns rights
Posted By jjefferson On April 19, 2011 @ 5:40 pm In Arkansas News Bureau, News | No Comments
By John Lyon
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — The chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association said in a talk here today he worries about the future of gun rights if President Obama is re-elected and makes more nominations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“I believe that the Second Amendment hangs by one vote, and this 2012 election could break the back of it one way or the other,” said Wayne LaPierre, the association’s CEO and executive vice president, in a packed room at the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service.
LaPierre, who has held his current post since 1991, said Obama already has named two people to the Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, who LaPierre believes “will spend the next 30 years trying to gut the Second Amendment.”
The high court ruled 5-4 in 2008 that the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own a firearm for private use. Last year, the court ruled 5-4 that the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the individual right to bear arms applies to state and local gun laws.
Sotomayor joined the court in time to vote with the minority in the latter decision. Kagan joined the court later.
“Those cases, I believe that the court said what all Americans already knew, that it (the Second Amendment) was their individual right,” LaPierre said.
“That being said, the Supreme Court is not the final authority on anything, the people are in this country, and the people are determined to protect the Second Amendment,” he said. “I believe the people will take advantage of whatever process is available to them to protect that freedom.”
LaPierre told reporters later that the NRA is not ready to endorse any potential challenger to Obama’s re-election bid.
Obama’s re-election campaign did not immediately respond Tuesday to a request for comment.
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NRA chief says Obama re-election threatens guns rights|Arkansas News(Emphases mine)
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