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Brian Blanco / Reuters
Gun shop customers shop for weapons as they listen to a live stream of a President Barack Obama's gun control proposals at the Bullet Hole gun shop in Sarasota, Fla. on Jan. 16.
President Barack Obama proposed a new assault weapons ban and mandatory background checks for all gun buyers on Wednesday in a bid to channel national outrage over the Newtown, Conn. school massacre into a new push for gun control.
"While there is no law or set of laws that can prevent every senseless act of violence completely, no piece of legislation that will prevent every tragedy, every act of evil," Obama said at a mid-day announcement at the White House, "if there's even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there's even one life that can be saved, then we've got an obligation to try it." -- Read complete article.
The National Rifle Association, the country's most powerful gun lobby, released a statement Wednesday afternoon in response to the president's remarks.
"We look forward to working with Congress on a bi-partisan basis to find real solutions to protecting America's most valuable asset - our children. Attacking firearms and ignoring children is not a solution to the crisis we face as a nation," the NRA wrote. "Only honest, law-abiding gun owners will be affected and our children will remain vulnerable to the inevitability of more tragedy."
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Guy in blue shirt is typical untrained individual with finger on trigger in a crowd rather than extended outside trigger guard. That should constitute a background check failure. And no I'm not an anti gun nut. I own numerous.
The coincidence of mass shootings during the Obama tenure in office has a distinct odor to it. I watched Obama in a tv interview during his first campaign 4 years ago and making statement,"We must disarm". I guess an awful lot of people missed that interview admission but I didn't. Obama has been rabidly anti gun from day one before running for POTUS. In his senate days he never found an anti gun law he didn't like. His "change" campaign was that of establishing a coup to override the constitution,ignore the congress,and introduce the advance of Marxist socialism as "hope and change". To establish The Reich,Hitler said,"We must disarm". To "change" Russia,Stalin said,"We must disarm". Fulgencio Batista made the Cubans register their firearms and when Castro took over he knew where the guns were so he disarmed the Cubans. In every incidence of such civilian disarmament,the people became enslaved,no longer a free people but now subjects of government and corrupt despots for leaders. The second amendment has kept us free of such tyranny for over 200 years but years ago Nikita Khruschev stated,"We will take over this country without firing a shot". How prophetic, because now along comes Obama to fulfill that prophesy. To push his effort to disarm us, Obama needed "incidents" and hence there's been plenty of them so as to incite the people into a frenzy while duping the sheeple into complacency. He bypassed the congress(again)signing executive orders to dismantle firearms ownership in this country. He used children to get his way. He didn't quite get what he wanted from Aurora so then he made Sandy Hook School his finale to drive the nails into the coffin of the second amendment. Even as sleazy as Bill Clinton was,he didn't stoop this low to push his own anti gun agenda. The congress has the power to reject every exec order Obama just signed,if they do not,then it's going to be up to We the people to depose this tyrant and take back our freedom.
I don't agree with the banning of "assault rifles" but do with limits on magazine capacity. Ala migratory bird hunting where 3 rounds are max we do have the legal ability to create such regulations. Nobody's whining about goose hunting and making threats of revolt. To suggest Hitler tried to disarm German citizens is factually incorrect. The Nazi party promoted private gun ownership once they controlled the government. Read a little actual history and you'll find this to be true. A reliable source is "Gun Control in Germany-1928~1945" by William Pierce. When both sides spout untruths & myths it interferes with proper debate.
A frightened person and a wild imagination . Good old Eddie.