Barack Obama, outspokenly anti-gun for his entire political career, fooled an amazing number of gun owners by keeping a "hands off" attitude toward Second Amendment issues until his first term was over and his second secured. Then, when a madman slaughtered 20 helpless children and half a dozen teachers in an unprotected elementary school, he and his political cohorts pulled the trigger on an anti-gun campaign that had long stood cocked and ready.