“The bottom line is this. If you’ve got a rifle, you’ve got a shotgun, you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it away. Alright? So they can keep on talking about it but this is just not true. And by the way, here’s another thing you’ve got to understand. Even if I wanted to take it away, I couldn’t get it done. I don’t have the votes in Congress” (Barack Obama, Duryea, PA [1])
“Even if I wanted to take it away”? What exactly does that mean? If he had the votes, would he?
Then again, at least through Nov. 4, Obama probably wants to be oblique on this issue. That way he can pull the wool over the eyes of those of us rubes who “cling to our religion and guns.”