David Codrea

• Gun Rights Examiner

“We must seek agreement on gun reforms,” a guest editorial in the Arizona Daily Star by President Barack Obama declares.

"Every single day, America is robbed of more futures,” he writes, citing statistics and arguments straight from the Brady Center playbook, all of which completely ignore the other side of the equation, that is, lives saved by armed citizens defending themselves and others, and that the overwhelming number of those doing the robbing do not let “gun control” laws stop them.

“[M]y administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners,” the President declares. “It has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.”

That our rights are not his administration's to expand escapes the man—or at least, he hopes, most readers. What happened there was he was unwilling to derail a credit card bill where that provision was slipped in. Had the national parks bill been a standalone deal, it would have never reached the president’s desk. And while he takes great pains to make the case that he’s gun owner-friendly, his administration was content to help an activist judge deny those rights by refusing to appeal a ruling requiring an environmental impact study, opting instead to relegate the issue to bureaucratic limbo.