You'd think a former ConLaw prof would know better...

The Prof seems to have a bit to learn. From the Barack Obama campaign website...

Respect the Second Amendment: Millions of hunters own and use guns each year. Millions more participate in a variety of shooting sports such as sporting clays, skeet, target, and trap shooting that may not necessarily involve hunting. As a former constitutional law professor, Barack Obama believes the Second Amendment creates an individual right, and he greatly respects the constitutional rights of Americans to bear arms. He will protect the rights of hunters and other law-abiding Americans to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting. He also believes that the right is subject to reasonable and commonsense regulation.

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As a "former constitutional law professor", Barack Obama should know that the Constitution doesn't "create" new rights; it recognizes pre-existing rights. History teaches us that politicians who fail to recognize this distinction also fail to truly respect the Right to Keep and Bear Arms as an individual liberty. They invariably see the firearms ownership as a privilege granted by, and therefore revocable by, the government; not as a God given right.