And no, I’m not being sarcastic. I’m talking gun control, and for a change the news is good. Obama is not going to touch it, at least before the election in the fall. That woul dbe beyond political suicide. This is, ironically, exactly what Obama said he would do with the issue, but given his track record keeping promises, it is no surprise that gun and ammunition sales went off the charts. Some calibers of ammunition are still nearly impossible to find. This will eventually calm down, but stands as the ultimate rejection of gun control as the People vote with their wallets against it. Steve Chapman, in Reason Magazine (Libertarian mag, for those who don’t know) has a good write-up on it:

Obama Spurns Gun Control
Why the anti-gun lobby is disappointed with Obama’s first year
Steve Chapman | February 15, 2010

Among the many groups that opposed Barack Obama’s presidential race, few were more certain or vehement than gun rights organizations. “Barack Obama would be the most anti-gun president in American history,” the National Rifle Association announced. “Obama is a committed anti-gunner,” warned Gun Owners of America.

So it’s no stunner that after a year in office, the president is getting hammered by people who have no use for his policy on firearms. The surprise is that the people attacking him are those who favor gun control, not those who oppose it.

Obama’s record on this issue has been largely overlooked—except by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which recently issued a report card flunking him on all seven issues it deems important. Said President Paul Helmke, “If I had been told, in the days before Barack Obama’s inauguration, that his record on gun violence prevention would be this poor, I would not have believed it.”

Read the whole thing.

Believe it. The Democrats won’t touch gun control before the election. After the election worries me. A rejected Democrat Party, during a lame duck session, might do something out of spite, secure in the knowledge that an Obama veto would be proof against the Republican’s repealling it. We, the People, must stand firm against that. With everything we have, if necessary.

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