Barack Obama, "Greatest Gun Salesman in America"

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11. He was contributing by the "heck of a job he was doing"!

But he also had a cast of characters to help. Police Supervisor Eddie Compass III was a prime player with his "no one will be armed" statement. Then there were the National Guard soldiers and police who patroled neighborhoods and disarmed citizens protecting their own homes. All the while, the hired guns of Blackwater and other mercs were standing on the street corners of the high end neighborhoods with assault rifles. Funny how nobody messed with them.

There is another point, the use of the National Guard to do house to house searches and weapons confiscation during time of emergency, disarming citizens who are just trying to protect what is theirs. I remember seeing reports of soldiers being interviewed about the tactics, who were not comfortable with the situation, but continued to march anyway.

The entire situation surely didn't add much credibility to the "trust me, I'm from the government" line.