Barack Obama actually said...

The Supreme Court ruling did not say that you can't have common-sense gun laws; it just said that this particular case violated a basic principle that people do have a right to bear arms.

Context

Interview with Peter Cook of Bloomberg's "Money and Politics

06/25/2008

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