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Huckabee jokes about Obama gunman

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) -- Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee joked Friday to gun rights supporters that a noise offstage was Barack Obama trying to avoid a gunman.

Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, was speaking at the National Rifle Organization convention in Louisville, Ky., when he made the joke about the Democratic presidential hopeful. As Huckabee was delivering his remarks, there was a thumping sound offstage.

"That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak," Huckabee joked. "Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor."

Obama, the junior senator from Illinois, has called for extending the national assault weapons ban, limits on gun sales, and a national law against carrying concealed weapons, with few exceptions.

Speaking with reporters Friday in South Dakota, Obama said he sees gun ownership as an individual constitutional right but said there should be "common sense" laws on background checks and other processes meant to promote gun safety.

Copyright 2008 by United Press International

This news arrived on: 05/16/2008

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