• Mike Huckabee strongly supports the right to bear arms
and opposes restrictions on access to firearms.

• "My position on the Second Amendment to the Constitution
is as clear for me as the position held by most journalists
toward the 1st Amendment. While I do not consider myself a "gun
nut," I proudly own a variety of firearms and enjoy hunting as
well as sports shooting. But even if I were not a hunter or did
not enjoy shooting, I would still be a firm believer in the 2nd
Amendment right of Americans to own firearms for self-protection
and as a matter of principle."

• Huckabee also explained the rationale behind his stance:
"There are 700,000 physicians in the US and the number of
accidental deaths caused by them per year is 120,000, making the
accidental death rate per physician 17%. Using the same logic,
there are about 80 million gun owners, and the number of
accidental gun deaths per year among all age groups is 1,500. The
same calculation reveals the number of accidental deaths per gun
owner to be 0.00188%. In other words, statistically, doctors are
approximately 9,000 more times more dangerous than gun owners.
Yet, I hear no one suggesting we ban doctors."

• Huckabee has his views on the issue of 'Castle
Doctrine', a legislation which delineates the person's right to
"stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including
deadly force if he or she reasonably believes it is necessary to
do so to prevent death or great bodily harm." Huckabee adds,
"Personally, I think it?s the way it ought to be. We ought to
have the right to protect ourselves." 
		

• Obama addressed the June 2008 Supreme Court decision
striking down the District of Columbia's gun ban by saying, ?I
have always believed that the Second Amendment protects the right
of individuals to bear arms, but I also identify with the need
for crime-ravaged communities to save their children from the
violence that plagues our streets through common-sense, effective
safety measures. The Supreme Court has now endorsed that view,
and while it ruled that the D.C. gun ban went too far, Justice
Scalia himself acknowledged that this right is not absolute and
subject to reasonable regulations enacted by local communities to
keep their streets safe.?

?• Obama's gun control policy was widely expected to be in
the direction of putting a curb on the use of gun.

• Once he took charge as President, Obama declared his
firearm policy by listing out certain priorities.  Thus gun
policy would be administered in two areas - 'ending the dangerous
cycle of youth violence' and 'addressing gun violence in cities'.


• Obama has rather a long history of record of supporting
the anti-gun policy in his public career. Obama used to support
radical anti-gun foundations such as the Joyce Foundation as
early as the 1994. Obama was also seen supporting the ban of
weapons, imposition of taxes on arms and ammunition and
legislations intended to put a check on the use of guns
throughout his career.

• However, Obama respects the gun owners' rights as had
been mentioned in the Constitution. "I have no intention of
taking away folks' guns. It's important for us to recognize that
we?ve got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership
generally." 

• Obama also added that, "I have never favored an all-out
ban on handguns. What I think we can provide is common-sense
approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the
streets."

• Pertaining to the Second Amendment and individual gun
owners' rights, "As a general principle, I believe that the
Constitution confers an individual right to bear arms. But just
because you have an individual right does not mean that the state
or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right."