Comments on: Obama Election Spurs Gun Sales

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:55:43 +0000

“Democrats for the Draft.”

That will help them get re-elected, surely John.

By: Rob in Denver

Rob in Denver — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:25:36 +0000

Assuming that a proposal to repeal the Second Amendment musters two-thirds support from both houses of Congress — or that two-thirds of the state legislatures request a national Constitutional convention to do the same — I doubt 38 of 50 states would ratify it.

By: RPC

RPC — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 03:51:16 +0000

The same thing happened when Clinton was elected.

By: John

John — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:21:30 +0000

Jimmy,

What’s wrong with that? Seriously. Israel has it, Korea, Italy, a host of other nations. It couldn’t kill for American’s to expect everyone, regardless of race, sex, levels of wealth to sacrifice something for this nation. It would be compensated time. You could do it the summer after HS and be in College in the Fall. Or if that doesn’t work you have a period of 7 years to complete it. It would be just like the national guard, where your employer must take you back. I think it should be for 1 yr. I’m not sure 3 mo’s would complete much. You could also do civil corps as well, where you work on city’s and for the community. Expecting people to care enough to give something back to this nation, beyond the taxes that people like you don’t even want to pay, is not un-american. Did you feel the same about the draft to fight Vietnam? Was that un-american? The only un-american about that were the draft defers of Cheney and the puss as national guard service of Bush, and Clinton as well for the most part. Service for your nation should not be optional.

By: Jimmy the Dhimmi

Jimmy the Dhimmi — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:12:03 +0000

People between 18-25 will be forced to enlist in a civilian defense corps, so maybe they need training on how to use guns properly; or perhaps you may need to stock up on guns for when the civilian defense corps comes knocking at your door requiring you to join when you don't want to, so you need something to scare them off. Depends on how you look at it.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:01:38 +0000

The Democrats have come to realize that trying to restrict guns to control crime is a futile attempt and does more harm to law abiding gun owners. Their party platform has reflected this. The Right is flipping out because they still believe the democrats wanna snatch guns. And to think, After every democratic President – we still have guns!

Why do all of these outrageous wedge issues come to a head every four years? It’s almost like we’ve got selective amnesia or something.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:20:46 +0000

Six months into the new administration, gun sales will start to lag. This will also be blamed on Obama when the truth is that everybody is buying all the guns they want/can afford now.

By: Mike A.

Mike A. — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:39:34 +0000

It should be evident that, even if he wanted to, it would be very difficult for Obama to ban guns or gun sales immediately. So why are people doing this? Maybe the campaign smear campaigns have worked. Maybe there’s a non-negligible percentage of Americans who believe he’s a muslim looking to destroy the country. We are more divided than united.

By: Agnostick

Agnostick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:33:05 +0000

â€œYou go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothingâ€™s replaced them. And itâ€™s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who arenâ€™t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.â€

Validation, pure and simple.

–Ag