"And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."--Pop psychologist Barack Obama, analyzing rustbelt Americans he did not grow up with, speaking to wealthy donors in San Francisco, April 2008.
Barack Obama still has a problem with gun owners. And they always will have a problem with him.
They did back in spring of 2008 when the new kid didn't realize he was being taped at that urban fundraiser in another San Francisco mansion. As a result, Pennsylvania primary voters went for Hillary Clinton that year, as did Ohio and Texas Democrats.
No one knows what little Barry Soetoro watched on television in those formative childhood years in Indonesia--or if his family even had a TV.
But chances are he wasn't raised on Gunsmoke, Maverick, Have Gun-Will Travel, The Rifleman, Davy Crockett, The Lone Ranger, The Cisco Kid, Hopalong Cassidy, Wild Bill Hickok, Bat Masterson, Gabby Hayes, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Wyatt Earp, Rin Tin Tin, Bonanza or Wanted: Dead or Alive. Or any of the scores of other good guy-bad guy Western shows and movies, and, later, police dramas that liberal Hollywood lucratively dispatched into theaters and almost every home every week.
Now, White House polls show Americans worried over gun violence again. So, Obama had Joe Biden do some ostentatious legwork and now he's on a mini-kick for background checks and bans on military-style assault rifles and high-capacity ammo clips. Actually, that's not quite accurate.
Yesterday Obama was on the gun violence kick. Today, it's immigration reform. Both of which keep the public's mind off the sagging Obama economy.
But yesterday the president flew Air Force One almost 2,000 miles total for a 16-minute photo op in Minneapolis with police officers to urge a select audience to pressure Congress to pass some new gun limits. "We're not going to save every life," the Democrat said. "But we can make a difference."
Not likely in this generation. There are an estimated 100 million high-capacity clips in the country today and around 300 million firearms. And we can't find 11 million illegal immigrants.
Obama says all the right things to rally urban residents over the reasonable declaration there's no need for military weapons in city streets, as if someone sought that. And he says all the right things to calm gun enthusiasts, how nobody's collecting their guns, nobody's threatening father-son hunting forays. Although universal background checks would provide a handy government list of all gun owners.
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