Obama is coming for your guns.

Last night a couple of friends stopped over and flatly told me that Obama’s goose is cooked.

One short sentence he caught on the radio (he just now started paying attention to the Presidential race,) set him straight on who to vote for, or in this case, against.

“He’s for banning assault rifles, that’s all I need to know! I heard it on the radio.”

Now, my friend doesn’t fully get what I do, and I respect that, there is a very low tolerance to politics and political information for most people. Just because I love politics is no reason to be in people’s face about it.

One sentence in Tuesday’s debate was enough to send my friend voting Republican, but as the NRA points out, it’s worse than that.

Here is what Obama said on Tuesday night:

But I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets. And so what I’m trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally. Part of it is seeing if we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced. But part of it is also looking at other sources of the violence. Because frankly, in my home town of Chicago, there’s an awful lot of violence and they’re not using AK-47s. They’re using cheap hand guns.

Weapons designed for soldiers and military only are already prohibited for sale in this nation. Fully-automatic rifles (machine guns) cannot be purchased or possessed in many states. Obama is conflating fully-automatic rifles with semi-automatic rifles and goes further to include cheap hand guns.

Most hunters understand that when a politician says they want an “assault weapons ban” they want your rifle.

For those of you who do not know the difference between an assault rifle and a fully-automatic rifle, I encourage you to watch this video.

An assault weapons ban is a ban on semi-automatic technology. AK-47s are sold in the United States as semi-automatic.

Those of us who have been watching Obama since before 2008 know full well that he has a prejudice against gun ownership, and the people in Pennsylvania should know better too. After all, Obama believes that Pennsylvanians are racist gun-toting bible-thumpers because there are no manufacturing jobs in your state. He does not understand the American people. He does not even like us.

But the truth is, is that, our challenge is to get people persuaded that we can make progress when there’s not evidence of that in their daily lives. You go into some of 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 nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration, and the Bush administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. So it’s not surprising then that 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. –Barack Obama 2008

This President attacks the Constitution, breaking it down, “relieving” the public of the rights they know they possess. With every passing day from now until November, more and more people are hearing his words, and perhaps, for the first time ever, clearly understanding what they mean.

..the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed..