I agree with the President
Shocking? Well, not really. He was at Newtown, Connecticut yesterday, lighting candles and paying lip service to the tragedy there on it’s first anniversary. Anyway, Fox News reports his remarks;
“We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds,” the president said in his weekly radio address, before he and first lady Michelle Obama remembered the shooting victims and their families in a moment of silence. They also lit a candle for each victim during a White House event.
“We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued and cared for,” the president said.
I agree completely, those are things we should try to accomplish. But, you know, that’s not what he wants to do, really. The anti-gun fascists want to keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. That’s what will make them feel safer.
Adam Lanza tried to purchase a firearm, but existing gun laws prevented that from occurring, so he murdered his mother and stole her guns, the guns that she owned legally, so the only way that the Sandy Hook tragedy could have been prevented was if the government had confiscated all of the guns in Connecticut. Or they could have institutionalized Lanza. Jared Loughner bought his handgun legally, despite the fact that local law enforcement had several encounters with him and should have arrested him, giving him a record of anti-social behavior which might have prevented him from buying a gun. James Holmes bought his guns legally, despite the fact that he had sent to his doctor a notebook which contained his plans to carry out an attack like the one he did in Aurora, Colorado. The doctor just never reported it to police.
Like in so many other instances, the president’s words don’t match his intentions. Legislation in Congress only focused on making it harder for people who obey laws to buy guns, not the people who buy their guns in dark parking lots.
Only 2% of convicted criminals admit that they got their firearms arms at gun shows or other private sales, yet that’s the target of gun-grabbers. None of the perpetrators of the so-called “mass shootings” ever acquired their guns that way – they all showed signs of being unable to responsibly own guns – but they still got their hands on them. Not because existing laws failed, but rather because feeling good about ourselves trumps public safety. No one wants to take responsibility for getting potential criminals off of the streets.
Category: Gun Grabbing Fascists
Obama’s history belies his true intentions. I agree with what he said. But the truth as you wrote so well Jonn, is that he intends, if it is in his power to remove every gun from everyone in the nation…willing to give them up…or not. I would put my paycheck on this being his real desire and motive. Point is, he could really care less about gun control. It is just that it looks good to the liberals who put him in office and panders to the crowd he likes. Obama cares about Obama, period. If there were a school shooting every week he will only pay the party line lip service to them and go back to pleasing himself and feathering his bed for after 2016. Lying piece of shit!
“We have to do everything we can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued and cared for.” I didn’t recognize that obligation of the chief executive so I revisited Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution and, well, I am embarrassed and man enough to admit when I am wrong:
“He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, and to do everything he can to protect our children from harm and make them feel loved, and valued and cared for, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate….”
Don’t forget the VA Tech meltdown, Seung-Hui Cho. He was diagnosed FROM CHILDHOOD with a severe anxiety disorder known as selective mutism, as well as a major depressive disorder.
@1, Sparks, Yeah you beat me to it, I also think he’s just giving lip service as well.
@3, AW1, yeah, you’re right on the money. Hell one of the Columbine shooters’ dad found a sawed off shotgun barrel in his boy’s bedroom, and ignored it because “he didn’t want to interfere in his life” AW, F**K, aren’t parents supposed to intervene when they find shit like that?
Sparks has it right: it’s all about the ‘him’, and nothing else.
Bodaprez has only two interests: getting applause, and photo ops. Whatever it takes to get applause, he will do, and it usually leads to a photo op, so the two go hand in hand.
@3—Not to mention that Seung Hui-Choi had been ordered by courts multiple times to seek mental health treatment, and nobody followed up on it. And because government is efficient, the information that the guy had been found to be Bravo-Sierra-Foxtrot-Charlie in a court of law somehow never made it into the background check database. So the guy was able to buy his guns legally and go on a rampage. And that isn’t an isolated incident. Most mental health records and a fair number of criminal ones are currently being kept in state and local archives without being entered into the system. Sheesh, what an easy, straightforward, politically non-controversial problem to fix that absolutely nobody has tried to.
What this Pres says always sounds good. It’s just that his actions are not rationally related to achieving his stated goals.
This is the source of considerable cognitive dissonance.
The mental health aspect of gun control is a slippery slope. I’m surprised that the gun grabbers haven’t exploited it more. After all, if you want to own a gun, you must be crazy.
I hope I don’t need to say “sarcasm off” here.
I’m sick of government doing things “for the children.” Everything government does SCREWS the children. Common Core is horrible. Public schools are horrible. The NEA is horrible. The kids are the LAST thing I want the government having a hand in.