The Trojan Gun

Barack was against guns, before he was for them:

…before he became a national political figure, he sat on the board of a Chicago-based foundation that doled out at least nine grants totaling nearly $2.7 million to groups that advocated the opposite positions.

The foundation funded legal scholarship advancing the theory that the Second Amendment does not protect individual gun owners’ rights, as well as two groups that advocated handgun bans. And it paid to support a book called “Every Handgun Is Aimed at You: The Case for Banning Handguns.”

Obama’s campaign’s response? “Freedom is slavery, Winston!”

Obama’s eight years on the board of the Joyce Foundation, which paid him more than $70,000 in directors fees, do not in any way conflict with his campaign-trail support for the rights of gun owners, Ben LaBolt, a spokesman for Obama’s presidential campaign, asserted in a statement issued to Politico this week.

Well, yes they do.

The Obama campaign spins the involvement as “supporting a dialogue” about guns. But among the Joyce Foundation’s beneficiaries are Citizens for a Supine “Safer” Minnesota, a pro-victim-disarmament group whose idea of “dialog” is lying through its teeth to the media, and never, ever responding to questions.

That’s Barack Obama at work for your Second Amendment rights.