As armas e a campanha

Sobre a decisão do Supremo Tribunal dos Estados Unidos sobre o direito fundamental dos indivíduos a possuir e usar armas de fogo --

* e a campanha de John McCain -

"Are guns the keys to the kingdom for McCain? Judging by the rapidity of the RNC's reaction to DC v. Heller, the craftmanship of McCain's statement and the sudden appearance of McCain surrogates on the cable networks, the answer is: he thinks [so].", Marc Ambinder

* e a ambiguidade de Barack Obama -

"Some disappointing legal positioning from the Obama campaign in the past few days, as Obama put out a statement disagreeing with a 5-4 decision on the Supreme Court's decision to bar the execution of child rapists (if Obama's position were adopted, it would be the first time since the 60s that criminals have been put to death for crimes that don't include murder) and his campaign flipped its position on the constitutionality of the DC handgun ban (were they once said Obama believed the ban unconstitutional, now they say he has no position on it).
As it happens, I actually don't have a position on the constitutionality of the DC gun ban, don't much care about Obamas position on it. He's going to get hit for opportunism, but this is more the campaign being inartful than illiberal. At the same time, thought it's not hard to see why Obama would want to take a maximally punitive stance against child rapists, he's placing himself on the right of Breyer, Stevens, Ginsberg, Souter, and Kennedy and fighting their attempts to rollback capital punishment.", Ezra Klein


p.s. - Já agora, aqui fica a Factbox sobre as posições dos dois candidatos relativamente à posse de armas