McCain Fires Shots At Obama On Supreme Court Ruling

With the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling on the District of Columbia v. Heller the McCain campaign and the Obama campaign are in a race to sell voters on being the most pro-Second Amendment candidate

The McCain campaign has come out swinging, bringing back the controversial elitist comment that put Senator Obama in hot water since making it: “Unlike the elitist view that believes Americans cling to guns out of bitterness, today's ruling recognizes that gun ownership is a fundamental right -- sacred, just as the right to free speech and assembly.”

By Citizen Correspondent Wyatt McIntyre

Date Posted: 06/27/08

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Ready, aim, campaign… With the Supreme Court’s 5-4 split court ruling in the case of the District of Columbia v. Heller, a challenge of the city’s Firearms Control Regulations Act, passed in 1975 under the administration of Walter Washington, the first mayor of the District of Columbia, the political ramifications are beginning to be felt amidst the Presidential campaign.

Taking focus at the campaign of his principle rival, Illinois Senator and Presumptive Democratic Nominee, Barack Obama, the Republican Contender, John McCain, is focusing on the recent statements made by Senator Obama in favor of the Supreme Court ruling, this after statements made earlier this year by the Illinois Senator seemed to indicate that he was in favor of the District of Columbia’s case.

“An incredible flip flop” is the choice of words used by Kansas Senator and McCain surrogate Sam Brownback, as he takes up the trail for his party’s nominee. At question, a series of statements given within the last year in the lead up to the Supreme Court ruling both by Senator Obama and his campaign that seem to contradict his current position on the issue given yesterday.

This includes stories like the one written the Nedra Pickler at the Associated Press on February 15, 2008, “Obama supports individual gun rights”, where it is drawn from his press conference that he supported the DC Gun Ban and one written by the Chicago Tribune’s James Oliphant and Michael J. Higgins on November 20th of 2007 entitled “Court to hear gun case”. In the said article the authors state, “But the campaign of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said that he '...believes that we can recognize and respect the rights of law-abiding gun owners and the right of local communities to enact common sense laws to combat violence and save lives. Obama believes the D.C.