Obama on gun rights

It was interesting to see both candidates responses to the Supreme Court's ruling on the DC handgun ban. What was even more interesting was the Obama campaigns soft dismissal of the ruling, when in reality, Obama is much more liberal on the 2nd Amendment than he claims.

This section of the AP article on yesterday's ruling is quite revealing:

Obama has voted to leave gun-makers and dealers open to lawsuits. He also took largely liberal positions on gun laws while in the Illinois legislature, including backing a ban on all forms of semiautomatic weapons and tighter state restrictions generally on firearms.

A ban of all semiautomatic weapons? That's probably close to 60 or 70 percent of all guns. That is hardly supportive of the 2nd Amendment.

AIDS Pandemic is Over

A quarter of a century after the outbreak of Aids, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has accepted that the threat of a global heterosexual pandemic has disappeared.

In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.

Interesting article. I wonder two things:

1. What are all of the domestic AIDS programs going to redirect their funds to?
2. Why did the gay community protest the fact that AIDS was most rampant in their lifestyle for so long?