In a stunning display of misinformation and lack of compassion for the families affected by the mass murder committed by a husband and wife team of Islamic terrorists, Obama immediately focused on one of his favorite topics, gun control, rather than on the much larger problem of stopping Islamic terrorists from coming into the country.
One of his demands is that the American people welcome into the U.S. tens of thousands of Islamic refugees, even while his top immigration officials admit that there is no way to vet the immigrants accurately for their political orientation. In addition, the Islamic terror organization ISIS has indicated that they are using the refugee program to insert Islamic terror cells into the county.
Obama chose to focus on what he called “powerful assault weapons like the ones used in San Bernardino.” It has been shown time and again that violent attacks are rarely, if ever, committed using assault rifles, and the designation “assault rifle” is itself a misnomer.
The name was chosen to give gun enthusiasts the perception of handling a military weapon, when in truth, assault weapons use standard caliber ammunition and have simple modifications such as pistol grip triggers and plastic black stocks which have no relationship to the operation of the weapon.
Obama went on to suggest that anyone on the “no-fly” list should be prohibited from buying a gun. The no-fly list is compiled by faceless bureaucrats who are unaccountable in their decisions regarding who is included. In some cases, someone on the role simply has a similar name as an individual who should legitimately be prohibited from flying. In others, it is simply a snafu committed by a clerk. Senator Ted Kennedy was famously included on the list, much to the embarrassment of the keepers of the list.
Those who compile the list do not have to advise those placed on the list that they have been designated, and once on the list it is almost impossible to have your name removed. More importantly, the list is ripe for abuse, and the idea that inclusion on the no-fly list would proscribe someone from buying a gun is especially troubling as it could be used for targeting troublesome individuals who support gun rights.
Obama calls for more gun control, page 2:
Never was
This from a jerk that has a security detail!!
B******t! There presently exist throughout the country anywhere between 18000 and 20000 laws (exact number is uncertain) regulating every aspect of a firearm’s existence – from manufacture, to end use. Firearms are one of the most regulated, one of the most controlled, one of the most restricted commodies in this country. It has long been illegal to assault, rape, rob, extort, threaten, or murder another person, no matter the INANIMATE object used to accomplish any of these acts. Presently there are probably 150-200 million law-abiding, citizen gun owners in this country in possession of some many more millions of firearms, including fully automatic firearms. According to the FBI, the CDC, and the Information bureau of the Department of Justice, gun ownership since 1993 has nearly doubled, while over the same period of time the number of gun crimes has fallen by almost the same percentage. Rifles, including liberal’s favorite boogeyman, the so-called “assault rifle” is used in so few gun crimes that the FBI doesn’t statistically track them. Far more people are killed by blunt objects than by rifles of ANY kind. Law-abiding owners/users of firearms in this country ARE NOT a problem, CRIMINALS are the problem. Arrest, prosecute, convict and PUNISH THEM, not the innocent. If legal gun owners in this country were the source of the “gun violence” being falsely blathered about, the streets would be awash with blood – they are not. My question for you, for the nay-sayers, for the anti-gun champions, for the purveyors of tyranny, for the Constitutional traitors is simply this: just what new/additional law, specifically, would you propose, enact, and/or enforce that would deter, prevent, or eliminate any CRIMINAL use of a firearm (an INANIMATE object) resulting in the “gun violence” you claim occurs as a result of “lax gun laws”? All that is necessary to understand the rabid efforts to disarm law-abiding American citizen gun owners is to realize that liberal gun control efforts have nothing to do with child safety, nothing to do with public safety, nothing to do with safety of anybody, or anything of the kind. Liberal gun control is about one thing, and one thing only. That one thing is the liberal/socialist’s need to disarm those who would resist, thus impede, their ability to implement the socialist, centralized, big government, cradle to grave, control of people (New World Order / One World Government) who, in the liberal elite’s opinion, are not smart enough to make the important decisions necessary to take care of themselves. Recall barack obama’s and hillary clinton’s recent press conference statements alluding to the fact that United Kingdom, and Australian laws dealing with “gun violence” were worthy of consideration in this country (i.e. confiscation). Consider the German Weimar Republic required citizen gun registration in the 1920s and 1930s, but included a provision specifically preventing use of those registrations to seize private citizen’s firearms. This provision was included to address citizen’s fears that the law would be misused to seize firearms from law-abiding citizens. Then in 1933 adolph$#%&!@*came to power. Firearms of the gypsy’s were seized, contrary to law; firearms of the Jews were seized, contrary to law; then firearms of those conveniently designated as “enemies of the state” (terrorist watch list and/or no fly list) were seized, contrary to law. Critics can minimize, ridicule, and insult as they like, be dismissive and sarcastic as well, but history has never failed to repeat itself. Every great society has eventually destroyed itself from within. Shallow, condescending, ignorant, contemptuous, doubting Thomas attitudes are indications of an unguarded, trusting, blind faith in authoritarian human nature that nurses complacency to destruction. In modern times every requirement for registration of firearms, has led to the next logical step – confiscation, followed by the deaths of millions of citizens in those societies at the hands of the very government that disarmed them. I don’t believe those attaining power in this country today are any different, nor do I believe them to be of any better, special, moral character so as to avoid misusing, thus protecting, their power, position and/or ideology. The only thing preventing obama, hitlary rotham clinstone (and ilk), from imposing their vision of the socialist, sunshine, unicorn, butterfly, and rainbow utopia upon America is that they have been unable to disarm 150-200 million Americans of some many more millions of firearms. Additionally, neither have these socialist elites been successful at dissuading those millions of law-abiding, firearm owning citizens from standing/fighting/dying for the principles in which they believe .For these thoughts and these beliefs, I do not apologize, nor will I cede one inch! Molon Labe.
Yes, every moral citizen will control their own gun
It certainly would make it safer for law breakers, wouldn’t it.
Been controling mine for 70 years
Oboma is a terrorist and traitor to the United States he is slime ball brain dead moron needs to be prosecuted for treason
Not , never gonna happen an armed society will not bow down to your type gov’t of a take over of our rights.
as soon as your gone were a lot safer
Bull hockey no bummer.