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Egan begins: 'When it became clear in the early fall of 2008
that Barack Obama, son of a Kansan and a Kenyan, would be the
44th President of the United States, many citizens rushed to
their gun shops, stocked up on ammo and camo, and tried to
fortify their nests with all manner of lethal weapons. Though he
had said nothing about gun control in the campaign, Obama, to a
certain kind of person, appeared to be a grave threat to the
Second Amendment.'  Handguns seized by the Los Angeles police.
(photo: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)  Gun Nuts in a Rut  By
Timothy Egan, The New York Times  02 Decemeber 11    Though he
had said nothing about gun control in the campaign, Obama, to a
certain kind of person, appeared to be a grave threat to the
Second Amendment. He was urban - Chicago, not the kind of place
where a man could shoot a coyote with a laser-sighted Ruger
while on his daily jog, as Gov. Rick Perry claims to have done.
He was professorial, with sc