Obama For Assault Gun Weapon Ban, Tighter Background Checks
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Obama urges tighter background checks on gun buyers after Aurora massacre
By Olivier Knox, Yahoo! News | T 
President Barack Obama pauses as he talks about the Aurora, Colo., movie theater shooting as he addresses the National β¦In his broadest remarks on gun control yet in the aftermath of the mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater, President Barack Obama called late Wednesday for tougher background checks designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. "A lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not in the hands of criminals -- that they belong on the battlefield of war, not on the streets of our cities," the president, who has called for reimposing the Assault Weapons Ban, said in a speech to the National Urban League."I believe the majority of gun owners would agree that we should do everything possible to prevent criminals and fugitives from purchasing weapons; that we should check someone's criminal record before they can check out a gun seller; that a mentally unbalanced individual should not be able to get his hands on a gun so easily," he said. "These steps shouldn't be controversial. They should be common sense."
But Obama also offered a nod to the difficult politics of gun control, portraying himself as a believer in the individual right to bear arms, and acknowledging that calls to action after an incident like the one in Aurora often fade.
"When there is an extraordinarily heartbreaking tragedy like the one we saw, there's always an outcry immediately after for action. And there's talk of new reforms, and there's talk of new legislation," Obama said in his speech. "And too often, those efforts are defeated by politics and by lobbying and eventually by the pull of our collective attention elsewhere."
"And I, like most Americans, believe that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms. And we recognize the traditions of gun ownership that passed on from generation to generation -β that hunting and shooting are part of a cherished national heritage," he said.
The president also singled out youth violence, and warned that government can only do so much. "It's up to us, as parents and as neighbors and as teachers and as mentors, to make sure our young people don't have that void inside them," he said.
(It's unclear how much political capital Obama will risk in an election-year gun-control fight. On the way to Aurora on Sunday, White House press secretary Jay Carney was asked whether there would be no renewed push for the assault weapons ban. "I wouldn't argue with your assessment about that," Carney replied. And White House officials have repeatedly emphasized that they are focused on enforcing "existing law.")
On a lighter note, Obama warned American school kids that they have to "hit the books" if they want to compete with their peers in rising economic powers -- and avoid temptations like TV's "Real Housewives."
"You're competing against young people in Beijing and Bangalore. They're not hanging out. They're not getting over. They're not playing video games. They're not watching 'Real Housewives.' I'm just saying: It's a two-way street. You've got to earn success," he said.
"That wasn't in my prepared remarks," he said, to laughter from the crowd. "But I'm just saying."
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I can't really disagree with anything Obama said right there
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Obama has been looking for a way to confiscate weapons. So we have one lunatic pothead shoot up a theatre and here we go with the same ole bullshit!
Head or Gut? -
Woody, it's what Obamao DOES that contradicts what he says that is the serious problem.
Obamao has a long history of being against private citizen gun ownership. Right up to wanting all ammo sales made illegal.
But in a second term?
You watch him go all out the other direction from what he just says now.
That is serious corruption bs. Obamao is the worst mistake America has ever had in the WH.
Far worse than Wilson, and that's freakin TERRIBLE.
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"you gun owners didn't buy that gun, you don't own that gun, a lot of other people helped you along the way. So...
it's the peoples' guns, and they want you to give them up."
you watch.
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Lol, you go on and on about what he is gonna do and saying that you know what he is thinking....
Ok cal
like i haven't heard that out if you a million times
either way, I don't disagree with anything he said there. No one needs an AK.
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No one needs to own a car.
No one needs to own a house.
No one needs to own a farm.
No one needs to own a jacuzzi.
No one needs to own a computer.
No one needs to own a bike.
No one needs to go to college.
No one needs to own a knife.
No one needs to own rope.
No one needs to have gasoline.
No one needs a riding lawnmower.
No one needs to own a lawnmower at all. Buy a goat.
It doesn't use gasoline.
No one needs to wear nice clothes.
No one needs to go to church.
No one needs to buy ice cream in the summer.
No one needs to use lotion on poison ivy rations to stop the itching.
No one needs to own a telephone. or cell phone.
No one needs to own a stereo.
No one needs to own a desk.
No one needs to have carpet in their house that they don't need to own.
No one needs to own a sweeper for the carpet that they don't need to own in the house they don't need to own.
No one needs to have kids.
No one needs to get married.
No one needs to have a driver's license.
No one needs to go on vacation.
Want more? Anybody want to chime in ?
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That's cute cal
I repeat
no one needs to own an AK
Ja.brill Peppers - Cleveland Brown OldBrownsFan, on 02 Jun 2017 - 5:09PM said: "No you are not the work of the devil but you are deceived by the devil." Who's got it better than us? Nooooobody! -
No one needs to own a tv.
No one needs to own a radio.
No one needs to own a microwave. (they cause global warming, you know...)
No one needs to cook over a stove in their house. (global warming, and fire risk. Don't you care about people burned? Houses catching on fire?)
No one needs to wear tennis shoes
No one needs to own a refrigerator. (use an ice box like in the olden days, wimp)
No one needs to read books.
No one needs to own fly swatters. (poor little liberal flies that always want to annoy)
No one needs to have running water in the house that they don't need to own.....
No one needs to have indoor plumbing... " " " .
No one needs to have an inhouse. Use an outhouse like in the olden days.
No one needs to drive the car that they don't need to own, on pavement... go back to dirt roads like in the olden days.
No one needs to use toilet paper. Use leaves off trees. Liberal marxists should use the handy and prevalent
leaves that come in bunches of threes or fives....@@
No one needs cameras.
No one needs ATV's.
No one needs to own a boat.
No one needs to ride a train. Or a subway.
No one really needs to work. Everybody can just go on welfare....@@
No one needs to own a tent, or go camping.
No one needs to go anything, because Obamao says you didn't do it, anyways. Just collect your welfare.
No one needs to drink beer.
No one needs to own a pencil or paper.
No one needs to have grass in their yard that they don't need to own in front of the house that they don't need to own, so they
wouldn't need to mow the grass with any kind of lawnmower that they don't need to buy.
But wait...... there's more !
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... I hate it when I get off topic like this...
remember, then you yell at me...
but you never do that
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Obama has been looking for a way to confiscate weapons. So we have one lunatic pothead shoot up a theatre and here we go with the same ole bullshit!
Obama has been looking for a way to confiscate weapons. So we have one lunatic pothead shoot up a theatre and here we go with the same ole bullshit!
Not too many pot heads I've known have shot up a movie theatre.
Furthermore, I'd worry more about the potential actions of heroin addicts, meth-heads, the new bath salt craze, the growing epidemic of pain pill abusers, and even alcoholics before I worry about someone who smokes weed. -
no one needs to own an AK
You do not know what you are talking about.
If you feel lucky, try to come and take mine away.
The AR is a much more superior rifle when it comes to accuracy. Just ask the Taliban.
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Then tell me T, why do you need it?
Or you can just ignore me, like on the free speech thread. I wouldn't want to dig out of that hole either...
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Here's why I would WANT one:
1. Police break into my home by having the wrong address - it happens.
My wife, friends and kids and big pup and cats don't get shot out of hand,
because I have an AR and can hold my own until they realize why I'm yelling
"you dumb somebeeches, back off, you have the wrong house" @@
2. When a bunch of occupiers on bath salts assault my neighborhood, and break into our home, every one of them is a goner.
3. If I'm out hiking our property and woods, and a troop of wolves or coyotes or enraged pit bulls go after our neighbor's kids,
the attackers are toast.
4. Just knowing that Americans have Ar's etc, means that the gov can't just throw out our Constitution and establish
a marxist junta, Chavez style. After all, when Obamao's friends (Bill Ayers and Benadine Dorn and co.) talked about taking over
our gov, they referred to the number of Americans who will need to be "terminated" because they won't go along with the new order of gov...
It was in the MILLIONS that they said would have to end up dead.
Watch the Canada youtube video on registration... and forcible home entry, and destruction searching and taking of guns... (UN mandated I guess?)
I didn't care so much about "assault weapons".... until the dems and brady idiots and Obamao tried to say a .22 with a clip was an assualt weapon.
And all pistols. And any semi auto shotgun. IOW's.... all guns - right back to the real ulterior motive - disarming everybody, because they aren't liberals.
It's a war on any American institution and status quo, and our Constitution and Bill of Rights especially.
Besides, it would be very cool. @@
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Obama has been looking for a way to confiscate weapons. So we have one lunatic pothead shoot up a theatre and here we go with the same ole bullshit!
Obama has been looking for a way to confiscate weapons. So we have one lunatic pothead shoot up a theatre and here we go with the same ole bullshit!
You're a fucking fool. I'm sorry, I know you're the moderator but this is so ridiculously wrong its funny. One massacre? Just one? They happen all the fucking time. All the time. This is not an isolated incident.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
Sorry, but you are being the fool. All this outrage is INDEED over one incident, politically expedient crap.
I know that this stupid kid was being treated by a psychiatrist for szitzo whatever how you spell it ...@@
That should have flagged his purchases. There's your weak link. It isn't going after law abiding citizens who
would never be any kind of irresponsible crimiinal sort.
Buying on the internet with no background check? Well, I don't know how you can do that check at all.
But banning guns and gun ownership doesn't solve anything. Which leads directly to ulterior motives.
There are all sorts of crimes with no guns involved. But libs don't care a whit. about those.
They only care to make guns a political gambit of the left. Interesting, and quite telling, don't you think?
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Woody:
If you, T and I were hiking down a national park trail, ....
and a grizzly comes after you. ... would you rather T and I have
single shot .22 ? Or AK's?
Same thing, we're at a Brownsboard picnic in Arkansas, and a few 500 lb
wild boars charge out of the trees and go after a group of young kids playing.
You want us to have single shot .22's? Or semi auto 12 shot.45 pistols? Or assualt rifles?
The kind of gun isn't the problem. It's the criminals. The Colorado killer may have killed
more innocents, with a single shot 12 gauge. Or, gallons of gasoline and molotov cocktails.
It's the crazy people that need to be stopped from acting out. So much for, btw, high iq in a prestigious school
in science, meaning you are superior, eh?.
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No I still think someone with a high IQ in a science major at a prestigious school is awesome
psychotic breaks and the onset of a mental illness can kinda fuck people up
how often are you attacked by boars?
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We were almost attacked by boars in Arkansas. We were driving back from Texas to Ohio.
We didn't stop, but I had a feeling they were out there in the woods heading our way.....
But seriously, boars are becoming a huge, huge problem in a lot of states, all the way up to
southwestern Ohio.
Look it up sometime. The suckers are huge.
Face it. You'd want me and T to have assualt weapons. You know it. @@
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