GOP, Some Dems Vow to Fight Obama’s Gun-Control ‘Power Grab’
President Obama may have intended to begin his second term picking a fight with Republicans over the debt ceiling, but with the stroke of a pen and a paternalistic chiding of Congress today he rang the bell on a fight over gun rights.
Backdropped by four kids ages 8 to 11 who had written letters to the president asking him to do something about guns, Obama rounded out his speech on Vice President Joe Biden’s gun-control proposals by putting 23 executives actions into effect ranging from tweaking or clarifying law enforcement procedures (such as one memorandum he issued on firearms tracing) to directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to research gun violence.
He also ditched his longtime preferred nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Andrew Traver, by offering up a less controversial pick in the guy who’s been acting director since August 2011, U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones.
But adding inflection to his script that could have come straight from an Aaron Sorkin production, Obama challenged the GOP to win the war of public opinion and Capitol duels over gun rights.
“In the month since 20 precious children and six brave adults were violently taken from us at Sandy Hook Elementary, more than 900 of our fellow Americans have reportedly died at the end of a gun — 900 in the past month,” Obama said in an auditorium that included Attorney General Eric Holder, as well as victims and families of mass shootings from Sandy Hook to Virginia Tech. “And every day we wait the number will keep growing.”
“This will be difficult. There will be pundits and politicians and special-interest lobbyists publicly warning of a tyrannical all-out assault on liberty, not because that’s true, but because they want to gin up fear or higher ratings or revenue for themselves. And behind the scenes, they’ll do everything they can to block any common-sense reform and make sure nothing changes whatsoever,” he said.
“I will put everything I’ve got into this — and so will Joe — but I tell you, the only way we can change is if the American people demand it. And by the way, that doesn’t just mean from certain parts of the country. We’re going to need voices in those areas and those congressional districts where the tradition of gun ownership is strong to speak up and to say this is important. It can’t just be the usual suspects.”
Yet one of the “usual suspects” who, after Sandy Hook, called for greater dialogue on guns had early criticism for the proposals.
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a National Rifle Association member, said he will “weigh each recommendation carefully,” but called out the administration for excluding gun owners as it pushes forward.
“I am disappointed that the president did not recommend the creation of the national commission on mass violence that I have proposed,” Manchin said. “A national commission can build the consensus we need for real action backed not only by gun-control advocates, mental health experts and entertainment industry executives but also by law-abiding gun owners who fully understand the history and heritage of firearms in America.”
Titled “Now is the Time,” the president’s gun-control plan consists of:
- Requiring background checks for all gun sales, including between private sellers and gun shows. “A national survey of inmates found that only 12 percent of those who used a gun in a crime acquired it from a retail store or pawn shop, where a background check should have been run,” the plan states. The coordinating executive action calls on private sellers to start selling their guns through licensed dealers so a background check can be performed.
- Strengthening background checks and ensuring states are sharing all applicable information. The coordinating executive actions clarify that ObamaCare doesn’t place barriers to sharing mental-health information and direct Holder to review whether more people should be deemed “dangerous” and prevented from acquiring a gun under the current background system.
- Pressure Congress to reinstate the assault weapons ban and limit ammunition magazines to 10 rounds, as well as approve a $4 billion administration request for more cops. Obama also wants Congress to make the possession of armor-piercing bullets by anyone other than the military and law enforcement illegal.
- Implement new training and tracing for law enforcement. Obama also wants departments to run a background check on theft victims before a stolen handgun is returned.
- Conduct research on “how and when firearms are used in violent death” and on the links between violence and violent images in videos games or other media.
- “Protect the rights of health care providers to talk to their patients about gun safety.”
- Launch a national ad campaign about responsible gun safety and encourage the development of new gun-safety technology.
- “Put up to 1,000 new school resource officers and school counselors on the job” and help schools implement emergency plans.
- “Help 8,000 schools create safer and more nurturing school climates” to reduce bullying, etc. “The Administration is proposing a new, $50 million initiative to help 8,000 more schools train their teachers and other school staff to implement these strategies. The Administration will also develop a school climate survey, providing reliable data to help schools implement policies to improve climate,” the plan states.
- “Making access to mental health care as easy as access to a gun,” in the words of Obama, by launching a new initiative, Project AWARE, to target people suspected of mental illness, particularly in ages 16 through 25.
- “Twenty-two percent of 14 to 17 year olds have witnessed a shooting in their lifetime. … To help schools break the cycle of violence, Congress should provide $25 million to offer students mental health services for trauma or anxiety, conflict resolution programs, and other school-based violence prevention strategies.”
Reaction from Hill Republicans was swift.
“Nothing the president is proposing would have stopped the massacre at Sandy Hook. President Obama is targeting the 2nd Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens instead of seriously addressing the real underlying causes of such violence,” said Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). “…I will oppose the president’s attempts to undermine Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms.”
The president’s proposals are intellectual and moral cowardice. Only one policy has had any impact on mass shootings. “Gun free zones” create unarmed victims. The president’s irrational and infantile attacks on legal gun ownership will have no effect on future mass murders. Only getting rid of “gun free zones” will stop or deter future mass murderers. The president’s refusal to accept the fact that armed, law abiding citizens are the only way to prevent and deter mass murderers will lead to the deaths of more children. The discomfort and fear he and other “progressives” feel in the presence of weapons is a small price to pay for the lives of children saved by armed citizens. If one life can be saved, shouldn’t we do the only thing which has stopped and deterred mass murder in the past. We should abolish “gun free zones” today…for the children.
Well of course they don’t want to stop mass shootings. If there wasn’t another mass shooting, then how would they generate the excuse for their next round of gun control?
Make no mistake, their stated reasons are a diversion. The real goal here is to put a crack in the 2nd amendment, to change the mindset of the last 2 decades that “gun control doesn’t stop violence” to one of “gun control is the appropriate response to a mass shooting”. Once they can set that precedent they know it’s all downhill from there. They’re not trying to bite off the whole 2nd amendment at once, rather they’re like rats or termites who will continuously gnaw at the structure until they can collapse it.
“Of course you know….this means WAR!”
~Bugs Bunny~
Was looking for a list of Democrats who are going to oppose Obamas gun ban… ???
Only 1…
Actually I just realized that the rat analogy may be able to be taken a step further. Rodents in general, including rats, have front teeth that grow constantly throughout their lifetime. In order to prevent the teeth overgrowing and killing them they must gnaw on something regularly. Are liberal politicians cut from the same cloth? That seemingly inborn biological need to gnaw continuously on some cause trying to strip the rights from the citizens? To ameliorate their own hypocrisies and keep their misguided conscience from overgrowing and consuming them perhaps? It’s an interesting question anyway, why they feel the need to control the lives of people who would happily let them live in peace the way they wanted. They are certainly very meticulous about making sure the government grows continuously, and gnaws a little further into our lives every year. Unfortunately, unlike a rats gnawing that trims its teeth, a politician’s gnawing seems only to grow their appetite.
Remember Mrs Kravitz on “Bewitched”? The nosy little busybody always spying on the Stephens family?
We all know the type. They often are lacking in any type of skill other than minding everyone else’s business. They KNOW they have no talent. They don’t engage in any type of hobby, save being a busybody and they annoy everyone.
You can usually watch the type as they go from childhood through young adulthood to a fully mature meddler.
Add to that that the common thread of “success” in government is who passed what legislation and all that, the die is cast for such people to propagate there. Lacking real work to do, the only thing they have to validate their existence is legislation (AKA: Meddling).
Much ado is made about legalese and the latin-based bullsh*t it stems from. Why are tax laws written by lawyers? Why do we need a lawyer to simply defend us from a speeding ticket? I’m not claiming a conspiracy but an evolutionary state of affairs where these meddlers, lacking the ability to build things, operate machinery, or engage in some musical endeavor, ie: “hobbies” are stuck with idle hands and wanting to “be somebody” which is hard to do when you have no discernible talent.
You can’t join the sailing club because you can’t get the hang of how to get the boat to move when the wind blows; You manage to get your fingers stuck together when trying to build a model or you find your attempts at a Mona Lisa look more like a sheepdog than anything else.
The other feature of politicians is their well-known lack of patience. So take that and add it to lack of skills, and you have a bully and a busybody who wants to stay in government because they despise the idea of having to get a JOB.
Our whole revolutionary war and existence as an independent nation started because some folk tried to take people’s guns… food for thought.
I wrote this to my state senator and representative. Everyone of us should beseech our respective state legislators to enact state laws protecting the rights of its citizens.
Dear Senator John H. Eichelberger Jr.,
The gun control narrative is being rammed down our throats with a concerted media onslaught the likes of which would make Benito Mussolini proud. Put aside the vast illogic of any further gun regulations and it becomes apparent that this move is not about guns but about control and the ability to subvert the constitution.
Texas is in the process of passing firearm legislation making it illegal to restrict gun ownership and a felony to enforce federal gun bans. The US constitution supports Texas in this measure. Will the Commonwealth protect its citizens with similar legislation? The popular vote is not designed to thwart our rights as defined in the constitution and proclaimed unalienable. So popularly elected officials must still respect and defend my right to own firearms until at such time as that law is changed by constitutional ammendment.
The federal government is engaged in illegal activities and it is incumbent on our states to protect us. Pennsylvania took the lead in rejecting Obamacare another specious law forced onto the public by a central government that does not feel constitutional restraint. I hope that resolve still exists in the state that brought liberty to this nation in 1776. Protect us now from the same tyranny that launched a revolution.
One of the measures outlined by the president this morning asks doctors to enquire as to their patients gun ownership and report to law enforcement. This is a ridiculous ethics violation. What’s next the clergy reporting on malcontents among their congregation? Like a number of priests did in Italy during German occupation in WWII. Do not let these extremes create an atmosphere of compromise whose net effect is further curtailment of our second amendment. No form of any further gun control will be tolerated. This president wants a Soviet style culture where one is encouraged to report to the authorities any “unpatriotic” behavior. Those enemies of the state may then be interred indefinitely without due process. Is that this country our ancestors fought for?
How many old and powdered wigged Pennsylvanians and Virginians are rolling in their graves now?
Robert Louton, M.D.
“One of the measures outlined by the president this morning asks doctors to enquire as to their patients gun ownership and report to law enforcement.”
Yes, and there is the nose under the tent or foot in the door. However you want to put it. The doctor that doesn’t ask about the patient’s firearm status puts himself at risk if of being deemed negligent and thereby at least marginally complicit should the patient commit a firearms related crime. (Oh, what fodder for the trial lawyers.) Also, in order for the government to “gather research information” doctors will be under mandates to report patients’ firearm status. Patients, on the other hand, that refuse to respond to such questions will be flagged and will have their insurance claim jeopardized. Patients that lie about their status put themselves in serious legal risk. But those who answer honestly will be as good as registered. Very clever. And all part of the transformational plan.
And then there is the issue of patriotism that you raise. The old Alinsky trick of turning one citizen against the other. Some of us are just bad people. Maybe just plain evil. The “enemy” as Obama has declared in the past that must have their views swept aside in favor of the common good.
All right out of the clever tyrant’s playbook. I never thought I would see the day that America would come to this sad situation. The mask is coming off and the face of Hugo Chavez is emerging.
Yooper — “I never thought I would see the day that America would come to this sad situation.”
I’m sure the Founding Fathers would have preferred to be peaceful farmers and British citizens. But the times were not conducive to peace. They rose to the challenge. Hopefully we rise to our challenge before our “right to keep and bear arms” comes into play.
“but about control and the ability to subvert the constitution.”
THAT is where the real fight exists … EO’s are not uncommon; neither are they without clear purposes. If anyone in congress really wanted to fight; a simple explanation of the illegality of the “gun control” “measures” and the fact that a POTUS has no authority to write laws; nor does he have the authority to enact laws via EO’s; wouylkd be forthcoming. Congress alone does this. Obama is pure Marx; regurgitating straw men arguments, accusing others of what he does and dissing citizens BIG TIME. Obama is a clear threat to the Republic and should be challenged as such … if he doesn’t walk the line; he should be asked to resign or impeached immediately. Obama and his cronies have gone far enough without accountability of any kind …. … that’s astonishing!!!!
About a dozen years ago, in Osaka, Japan, a man with a butcher knife killed 8 children and seriously wounded 7 others, including teachers. Japan has very strict “gun control”. So the individual bent on mayhem simply used a weapon found in most every kitchen to do his killing. The problem is the individual, not the weapon.
5,000 people were injured and 12 died in the Tokyo Sarin gas attack. Sick people find a way.
Intellectual and moral cowardice = delusional. Perhaps Obama suffers from the same form of delusion that has Manti Te’o thinking he had a girl friend. Te’o thought he talked to her regularly, just like Obama thinks we’re listening to the flapdoodle and ridiculous diatribe he reads from his speech writers – I’m betting he doesn’t even know what he’s going to be saying until he gets in front of delusion prompter (aka teleprompter). Obama parked common sense on the side of the road sometime in his life and didn’t bother to call AAA for service.
The tangled web of lies we got from corrupt and incompetebt law enforcement about Sandy Hook is falling apart more every day. It will take a House investigation to get to the truth. Time for our craven GOP to Cowboy Up.
Weak sauce from all. What should have been said by our so-called conservative congressmembers is that Americans’ God given rights of self protection trump anything coming out of the mouths of an increasingly lawless administration. There should be no movement on any of these actions in Congress. Both House and Senate conservatives D and R must make it known in no uncertain terms that these recommendations belong on the dung heap along with all the gun control plans of tyrannies throughout history.
Very few of them understand how close we are to a brtal totalitarian take over. The words “from my cold dead hands” means more now, to more people, than ever, probably since Lexington. It came to me today that if someone as good as Sarah Palin is not good enough for the GOP, then none of us are. Yet we hang on like battered wives hoping the jerk will change.
Unfortunately, there’s no other party on the horizon at this point. Gotta try to change from within first, then if it implodes on its own, we make a new one….
I’ve been thinking of Concord and Lexington a lot the last few days.
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA– ordinary citizens don’t need guns,as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.” –Heinrich Himmler
Here’s the way to fight his proposed magazine restrictions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q10Jz2qIog8
I own a 3D printer and last night produced one of these. It fits into the mechanism and locks into place just as well as the original. I have yet to test fire it though.
Freely downloadable from the defcad website
Let freedom ring.
In one youtube vid, a congressman is trying to make it illegal to produce weapons and weapon parts and accessories using a 3D printer. Does he think the criminals will heed this law?
Good one, TPM.
By the way, crankt as I am, I’m starting to think Bridget is a first rate journalist. Ever think we’re getting spoiled here at PJM? Considering what’s out there?
She damn well is.
Most of the 18 “non-embargoed” items on the list are definable as “what local law-enforcement agencies have been asking the Feds to do for years”. That is, cleaning up and streamlining the background-check system.
The major item on that list I disagree with is appointing a new director for ATF. Instead, for once George Soros’ group has the right idea; ATF should be folded into the FBI, and in the process be reduced from bureau to section status. The FBI not only does the background checks, they have the largest and most experienced ballistics lab in the country; I know because I’ve worked with them on cases. The same holds true for explosives cases (bombings, etc.); it was the FBI that caught the Unabomber, not ATF.
ATF rarely cooperates with local LEO, and when they do, they usually get it wrong. Getting their lab out of the business and letting the FBI have their data, arms collection, and etc. to add to its own can only be seen as an improvement in my (retired professional) opinion.
As a bonus, if ATF is taken over by the FBI, that means that all ATF agents who were there because they didn’t measure up to the FBI’s requirements (an old story with ATF) would get early retirement. And any replacements would be qualified and trained to full FBI standards, not ATF’s lower standard, which mainly consists of being determined to pursue a jihad against law-abiding Americans who happen to legally own firearms.
Which means local LEO would no longer have to put up with ATF agents who either (a) never show up when called or (b) show up when not wanted to strut around with a gun, a badge, and an attitude, screwing up everybody else’s casework.
Of course, this would mean ATF would have to lose its alcohol and tobacco tax-enforcement functions, which it somehow managed to retain when it was moved from Treasury to Justice in 2003. Which, by the way, violates several parts of the U.S. Code which specifically call for law-enforcement agencies not to be used for tax assessment purposes. I would suggest moving those functions over to either the Food and Drug Administration, or the Interstate Commerce Commission.
As for the “embargoed” part of the list, I notice that that is where we find any efforts to keep a tighter control on mentally-imbalanced individuals. I can only assume that Obama is afraid of the ACLU- or else he doesn’t want to lose voters who would be in a sanitarium instead of at the precinct on Election Day.
Say this for the man- he’s predictable.
clear ether
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Isn’t it endearing how King Obama loves children? In 1955, when I was a pint sized (loyal to the field artillery) Army brat in the land of Krauts, our maid told me on good authority that Hitler wasn’t so bad, “He loved children.” True story.
I think Eric Holder did something similar. When he was trying to get some gun control measure passed through the Illinois legislature he rounded up a classroom full of kids and took them on a “field trip” (without parental permission) to the legislature and paraded them around while people wailed “do it for the children!” I wish at least one of the Newton parents would come forward and tell Obama publicly to stop desecrating the memory of their child with his political agenda. Just say something along the lines of “I wanted my child to grow up to be an adult, with all the rights of an adult, and now you want to strip those rights from all Americans so that my other kids will never grow up to have the same rights I do. Shame on you!”
Wonder how the media would play that?
I know a US citizen who, at age 13 in 1945, was a sergeant in the SS. He hates der fuhrer for destroying his homeland but would get all misty eyed thinking about camping and hiking in the Hitler Youth.
TPM,
They would very carefully and politically correctly imply that her grief and emotions were clouding her judgement. The less mainstream stations would be more direct, and people on fark.com would outright call them crazy, manipulative whatevers.
We did see the father of that little girl in Tucson talk about how a free society sometimes means people do that sort of thing. Surprisingly brave and principled for someone who just lost a kid. Too bad we can’t have more people made of a little sterner stuff out there.
I believe it’s time for us to start planning and organizing a 2,000,000-citizen march on Washington, D.C. to let our attempted lords and masters know we’re not about to be disarmed and we’re mad as [fill in the blank] about the feral government’s wanton taxing, squandering, borrowing, and money printing.
I’m having a little trouble imagining more than 50 citizens in addition to me would favor a 2,000,000-armed citizen march on Washington, D.C., but armed, unarmed, or somewhere in between, I believe if a truly LARGE number of real Americans showed up, we could at least remind the Republicans they’ve got responsibilities they’re going to be held accountable for.
I would absolutely participate in either march. I would love for it to be an armed march though. Just 2 million people openly carrying pistols or slung rifles.
Just 1 million unarmed would show that we mean business. 2+ would be enough to scare the living whatever out of them.
I’m in.
Ever hear about The Bonus Army? The Battle of Blair Mountain? Kent State? Things like that?
Careful what you wish for. Not that I’m against the idea of an armed incursion against D.C.. I’m for it, in the end.
I just want you to be fully prepared to leave the kids and the eighty y/o grandmas at home.
The next mass conservative protests won’t end like the earlier TEA Party protests.
Billy clubs and broken teeth aren’t just for hippies. I’d go.
Obama’s method isn’t to engage the opposition, it’s to eliminate it.
His reason for being, contrary to what anyone might think, is conflict. He can’t deal with anything on any other level. So, heretofore, he’s either promoted conflict or eliminated the source of it.
Any guesses on how this last go-round will play out?
That’s why he must be relentlessly mocked at every opportunity. Guerrilla warfare with posters put up in the dead of night in public places that insult and degrade him – which basically means use his own words against him. Belittle his plans, make his ideas absurd, show him with big ears, whatever it takes to make him a laughingstock. We did it to Hitler and Tojo, why not him?
OBAMA HIDES BEHIND CHILDREN TO PASS ANTI-GUN AGENDA
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When I heard him using children to back radical legislation, I thought it both hysterically funny and very, very wrong. You can get children to say any fool thing.
Barack Obama’s Gun Running Merchant Of Death Program, Operation Fast and Furious, which should rightfully be called Obama’s Operation Murder and Mendacity, his Rolling 9/11 against Mexican civilians, has, so far, resulted in the murders of hundreds of people, including scores of murdered children, and that is again just so far and only counts Obama’s victims where the ObamaGuns were recovered. Serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer combined didn’t kill nearly as many people as serial killer Barack “Bloody Hands” Obama. Of course, Obama’s Sheeple and MSM Sycophants aren’t keeping track.
An Eqyptian Court (no doubt acting in accordance with Morsi’s wishes) sentenced a woman and her seven children to 15 years in prison for converting to Christianity
Morsi and Obama and all their supporters can burn in hell.
Can..
…and will.
“Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA– ordinary citizens don’t need guns, as their having guns doesn’t serve the State.” –Heinrich Himmler
It’s about time the Lyin’ King was called out on the Sandy Hook Hoax. The
phoniest, most lowdown stunt ever perpetrated on the American people. We need
someone with a big soapbox to force the story out so the media will be forced to cover it. Easy to prove it was all faked and it would give a huge boost to the
pro-gun forces. The regime should never hear the end of it.
The biggest moment for me is this one: A reporter tells us that she “met a woman in tears who was the school nurse, who said that she saw the shooter’s face and knew him as the son of one of the kindergarten teachers at the school.” Now we know that the school nurse said that she saw the shooter’s FEET, and we know that his mother had nothing to do with the school.
This was not “misreporting in the confusion.” This was a flat-out lie.
Either the reporter lied or the woman she talked to lied.
And we’re just supposed to forget it and move on.
The Sandy Hook hoax is falling apart. Since there is no live suspect there is no lawyer to demand evidence be produced to support the official story. Yet police scanners and the footage mage it clear that lies dominate the narrative. It will take a House investigation to dig out the facts. The GOP may be too craven to go near it.
How’d that house investigation of Fast and Furious go? If the house really did start digging all the relevant documents and witnesses would magically change or disappear. Anybody willing and able to perpetuate a hoax as big as this would of course be willing to go to any lengths to preserve the subterfuge. Then there’s the fact that Obama can act like a king and the media will applaud him for it. Couldn’t you see him signing an executive order to seal or destroy all relevant documents “in the interests of preserving the privacy of the families from this partisan witch hunt”? I could. The media would hail him as a hero for doing it too. We’re living in interesting times.
You’re right. Anybody goes near it and media heads explode. Looks like Glen Beck got scared off, our brave new Texan. Something will have tu crack it open. There’s several tenacious investigators on it. See what happens.
“A national survey of inmates found that only 12 percent of those who used a gun in a crime acquired it from a retail store or pawn shop, where a background check should have been run,” the plan states.
Exactly! And Obama’s directives would do little or nothing to curb gun acquisition by the remaining 88%. That’s where the problem is.
It’s not a problem for them. Without more mass shootings and gun violence, how would they generate the excuse for their next gun control push? They have no interest in preventing violence, only attacking our rights.
We need to do what the Progressives do all the time. Swamp the tool and his communists cronies with law suite after law suite. Make everything they do pass rigorous Constitutional muster.
Sorry folks, that’s “lawsuit” not “law suite”.
OBAMA’S EPIC FAILURE
A recent Gallup poll on national problems lists “gun control” and “school shootings” as virtually insignificant when compared to the miserable state of Obama’s trickle growth economy, his ballooning and bankrupting deficits and debt and dissatisfaction with the federal government. The Gallup poll shows that post-Newtown anti-gun hysteria (driven by the White House and anti-gun media) is not catching on with the public. It shows that public opinion on gun control has shifted very little since Newtown and is not the vital, pressing, burning issue that the White House and MSM falsely make it to be. With 24 million people either unemployed or underemployed-and gun violence affecting the lives of very few Americans-with good reason Obama is epically failing to turn Newtown into a national tragedy; with good reason he’s failing to distract the public from issues that are vitally important to them. The Newtown massacre was a tragedy, but not a national tragedy like Obama’s terrible economy and bankrupting spending policies.
Google “Gallup: Most Important Problem” and see this revealing poll for yourself.
Ah yes, and in the same polls the media’s pushing right now showing that people “support gun control” the idea of armed guards in schools is more popular than gun control, but they never mention that little fact. Obama couldn’t include that in his proposal because that would be giving the NRA a win, and he can’t have that. Fortunately it opens him up to all sorts of attacks, the new NRA ads calling him out as an “elitist hypocrite” are amazing.
So Obama wants to “[Make] access to mental health care as easy as access to a gun,” in the words of Obama, by launching a new initiative, Project AWARE, to target people suspected of mental illness, particularly in ages 16 through 25.”
That means having a background check, waiting period, and restricting the amount of access.
With Cash and Commandos, U.S. Escalates Its Battle Against the Mexican Cartels BY ROBERT BECKHUSEN 01.17.13
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/01/commandos/
We need to stay focused on the 2d Amendment, its purpose which was to combat tyrannical government, and the fundamental, God given right of every person to self defense.
The liberals will not stop with these measures and the inevitable next mass shooting will further fan the flames. They will not stop until we go all the way down the path followed in the UK.
Molon Labe
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January 17, 2013 In Rush To Pass Bill, NY Forgets To Exempt Police From Gun Laws
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/local/new_york&id=8958116
“Like most responsible gun owners, I support the 2nd Amendment, and I also support common sense measures to make our nation safer,” said Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.). “For many years, I have supported a renewal of the assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity magazine clips, universal background checks for all gun purchases and ending online sales of firearms and ammunition.”
“I support our police agencies, who have implored us to make these changes,” said Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.).
And if either of these states were rated as nations, they would be the two most dangerous on earth. If either state had an police force that wasn’t corrupt and ineffective, both St. Louis and Detroit would be quiet backwaters.
Here’s a word to the wise for all you gun owners out there: if you’re shooting bad and thinking about taking your firearm to the pawnshop, DON’T DO IT! Once it’s in their hands, they are required by Federal Law to make you submit to another background check just to get it back. Even though it’s your own property. I kid you not. If you don’t believe me, google it up.
Gun bans are definitely a tricky subject because people also have the right to bear arms. However, I must agree that probably one of the reasons as to why the Sandy Hook massacre happened was that the suspect was deeply troubled and this issue must be faced in the President’s efforts in making sure that cases like that won’t happen again.