Obama's Ascension to the throne

Soon it will be time for Bush to step down and Obama to step up. This is a critical time because in this transition period terrorists are most likely to strike. On Sunday, Obama said in an interview that choosing his national security team is one of his top priorities due to the nation's vulnerability. Obama is already promising that he will crush the Taliban and fix our economy. One thing that I can agree with him on is that we must stop the recession from becoming a depression. "We shouldn't worry about the deficit next year or even the year after. ... The most important thing is that we avoid a deepening recession."(Yahoo news). Obama is hoping that the markets have found their bottom and will begin improving over time. Hopefully this is the case and within a year we will be able to see some improvement. While it may takes as many as 10 years to completely fix the economy the first step now is to stop the recession from worsening into a depression. If we can accomplish this it will take less time to fix the issues.

No guns for you

Since Barack Obama has been elected , gun stores have reported staggering sales on semi-automatic rifles. With such an anti gun president , people are worried that their right to bear arms will not be honored. Some gun stores are reporting sales in excess of $100,000 a day. While it may be true that in the future restrictions on these guns will be placed, I feel people are acting on impulse when they go in to buy that gun. In my opinion people should wait a few months and see where Barack is going to go in regards to his gun policies. If he makes a move , that would probably be the time to buy the guns. Depending on the law, old guns may be grandfathered in ,thus allowing assault rifles to be owned by the public even though the guns would be illegal to buy or transfer after. As I have stated in the past , banning these guns would have ZERO effect on crime. If someone will not obey laws against murder,theft,rape and battery why would they even think about obey laws related to guns ?

Meeting Mark Kirk

Last week I went to meet Mark Kirk. Before the meeting I proffered Kirk to Seals. During the meeting Kirk talked about ways in which he fought the dumping of oil byproducts into lake Michigan. Various Oil companies such as BP dump their waste products into Michigan which in turn causes problems along our beaches. Kirk fought to prevent this from happening and succeeded. While this was a positive, I found out something that made me change my mind about Kirk completely. It seems he started the initiative to ban Assault rifles. If you refer to my first post you will find out why I strongly disagree with this. I didn't have time to ask him any questions ,but if I had 6th free , I would have asked why he supports banning assault rifles. The truth is people support banning these guns without fully understanding why. The word assault implies these guns are used to rob banks or kill large amounts of people. In actuality "assault" rifles are barely used in crime at all. As mentioned in the first article "Assault Rifle " is merely a fearsome epithet. I thought Kirk would have been a full blown Republican ,but sadly he seems more like a democrat.