Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Gun rights activists are taking lots of credit for the recent confirmation defeat of Judge Robert Hilder and for the re-election of a half-dozen lawmakers who are staunch 2nd Amendment supporters.

At the same time, they're saying those seen as lukewarm on gun rights -- such as Sen. Carlene Walker and House Speaker Greg Curtis -- may have gone down because gun-rights backers didn't bother getting out to support them.

"We certainly don't want gun owners to claim sole credit for the way these and other races around the state turned out," Gun Owners of Utah says in a statement today. "But we do want to point out a pattern here: At least in the Beehive State, it appears that making a courageous stand to protect RKBA (the right to keep and bear arms) can be a career-enhancing option for politicians, while taking a stand against RKBA, either overtly or behind the scenes, can be a career-limiting or career-ending option."

Then the group declares its next battle-front: the White House.

"President-elect B. Hussein Obama has a long track record of opposing RKBA, as do the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate."

". . . We apologize, but we've forgotten how to spell the President-elect's first name. Is it "Barak" or is it "Barack"? We're too pressed for time to look it up at this point, so we've resorted to using his first initial."

Uh . . . how about just President-elect Obama?


-- Dan Harrie