Obama's Pro-Gun Presidency
The Supreme Court’s Second Amendment ruling is yet another reminder: Obama is not, in fact, coming for your guns. John P. Avlon busts the right’s latest fear-mongering myth.
The "Barack Obama is Gonna Take Your Guns" bogeyman took another hit Monday, as the Supreme Court overturned Chicago’s 28-year ban on handguns, reaffirming the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.
Combined with the Court’s 2008 decision to overturn Washington DC’s handgun ban, the fact that 48 states now have some form of concealed carry permitting, and the current Democratic Congress’ vote to allow guns in federal parks—which was signed into law by President Obama last year—Americans are living through a gun rights renaissance.
Americans right now live in a country that is taxed less and has fewer restrictions on gun ownership than it did under George W. Bush.
But don’t tell that to the fear-mongering-for-fun-and-profit crowd. Facts would screw up their ability to scare people into anti-Obama activism.
The specter of forced seizure of guns has been a constant drumbeat among the Wingnuts since Obama’s election. Glenn Beck told his listeners that Obama “will slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun.” Skip Coryell, founder of this year’s Second Amendment Marches, wrote an article for Human Events titled "Rattling the Second Amendment Saber" in which he asked, "When do you say "Yes, I am willing to rise up and overthrow an oppressive, totalitarian government?…Is it when the government imposes martial law? Is it when the government takes away your firearms?” And Alex Jones went at the issue with his slickly produced one-world-government fright-wing approach, showcased in his “Obama Deception” DVD. The undertow of anxiety is a constant theme.
Not surprisingly, there are signs that all this fear-mongering translated into the real world: gun and ammunition sales are way up, causing shortages in markets across the country.
The deep disconnect between fear and the facts are a sign of the times; with the rise of hyper-partisan media, we have been segregating ourselves into separate political realities. And of course guns aren’t the only subject over which hysteria eclipses truth. Taxes are another good example. The Tea Party might stand for Taxed Enough Already, but the facts show that the federal tax burden this year is the lowest since Harry Truman was in office. As counterintuitive as it might seem, Americans right now live in a country that is taxed less and has fewer restrictions on gun ownership than it did under George W. Bush.
Of course, there was special irony in the fact that the Supreme Court’s decision came down on the first day of Elena Kagan’s Senate confirmation hearings. Conservatives have been running against an allegedly liberal Supreme Court for decades, despite the fact that before Obama took office seven of the nine Justices were GOP appointees—hardly making it a red menace. Acknowledging that reality, however, would require rewriting fundraising letters and replacing talking points—and so the narrative endures. Kagan’s replacement of Justice Stevens is not likely to tip the balance of the court, and some liberals argue that she is more conservative on issues like executive privilege than the man whose seat she hopes to take. Nonetheless, the out-of-the-mainstream, dangerously liberal meme is resuscitated, with one religious group even accusing Kagan of wanting to “homosexualize every segment of society.” Classy.
All of this is indicative of a national debate that pits conservative activists who believe that President Obama is at least a socialist against liberal activists who increasingly call him a corporate sellout. Here’s one thing we should be able to agree on: he can’t be both.
Source: TheDailyBeast
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