Where Does Barack Obama Stand on the Second Amendment Part 2

 There are already many questions about Barack Obama’s stance on the second amendment. While filling out a questionnaire during his Illinois years he claimed that he supported a total ban on handguns, something that he now denies. But now we have this article that claims Barack Obama was director of an organization that actively tries to ban all rights of the individual to keep and bear arms.

 he remains strangely silent about his eight years (1994-2002) as a director of the Joyce Foundation, a billion dollar tax-exempt organization. He has one obvious reason: during his time as director, Joyce Foundation spent millions creating and supporting anti-gun organizations.

 But there is more to the story including a nefarious plot to ban the individual right to keep and bear arms by influencing the judicial branch of the government.

When judges cannot rely upon past decisions, they sometimes turn to law review articles. Law reviews are impartial, and famed for meticulous cite-checking. They are also produced on a shoestring. Authors of articles receive no compensation; editors are law students who work for a tiny stipend.

In 1999, midway through Obama’s tenure, the Joyce board voted to grant the Chicago-Kent Law Review $84,000, a staggering sum by law review standards. The Review promptly published an issue in which all articles attacked the individual right view of the Second Amendment.

 And the sad part is that the plan worked.

One court, in the course of ruling that there was no individual right to arms, cited the Chicago-Kent articles eight times.

 And.

 Its next move came when Ohio State University announced it was establishing the “Second Amendment Research Center” as a thinktank headed by anti-individual-right historian Saul Cornell. Joyce put up no less than $400,000 to bankroll its creation. The grant was awarded at the board’s December 2002 meeting, Obama’s last function as a Joyce director. In reporting the grant, the OSU magazine Making History made clear that the purpose was to influence a future Supreme Court case:

“The effort is timely: a series of test cases – based on a new wave of scholarship, a recent decision by a federal Court of Appeals in Texas, and a revised Justice Department policy-are working their way through the courts. The litigants challenge the courts’ traditional reading of the Second Amendment as a protection of the states’ right to organize militia, asserting that the Amendment confers a much broader right for individuals to own guns. The United States Supreme Court is likely to resolve the debate within the next three to five years.”

 All of this, and more, happened inside the Joyce Foundation while Barack Obama was director. And the plan almost succeeded to an unbelievable extent. Remember the supreme court’s ruling in the Heller case, which challenged Washington D.C.’s handgun ban. The court ruled in favor of an individuals right to keep and bear arms, but the decision was only 5-4. We almost lost the second amendment. It turns out that all for dissenting judges used writings of the Joyce Foundation in their decision.

The four dissenters were persuaded in part by Joyce-funded writings, down to relying on an article which misled them on critical historical documents.

 The organization that Barack Obama was director of for eight years almost succeeded in influencing the supreme court into the position that the right to bear arms is not a personal right. Let me just ask you one question. What type of judges is Barack Obama likely to nominate for the supreme court?

 If you are bitter and are clinging to you gun out of frustration have no fear, Barack Obama will make sure that you aren’t clinging to it for long.