From the ArcaMax Publishing, Politics Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/politics/s-348971-718916
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.