Posted on 01/28/2013 9:50:59 AM PST by Starman417
In an interview with the New Republic Barack Obama hinted at his gun control plans. Part of the plan is to undermine Republicans from the start.
President Obama is suggesting that House Republicans on the issue of gun control appear neither willing to work with him nor listen to the American public on the issue.“The House Republican majority is made up mostly of members who are in sharply gerrymandered districts that are very safely Republican and may not feel compelled to pay attention to broad-based public opinion, because what they're really concerned about is the opinions of their specific Republican constituencies,” the president said in an interview with The New Republic.
Obama also said he can get 50 percent of public support for many of his upcoming initiatives, but “I can't get enough votes out of the House of Representatives to actually get something passed. … I think there is still shock on the part of some in the party that I won re-election.”
But here is the key portion
The president said he has a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that date back for generations.He said that moving forward on the topic means understanding that the realities of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas.
He said it's understandable that people are protective of their family traditions when it comes to hunting so “gun-control advocates also need to do “a little more listening than they do sometimes” in the debate.
In Obamaworld owning guns is about hunting- and nothing more. If you own a gun not made for hunting it means you want to kill someone. If you own a gun and don't hunt you are a danger. A threat to national security.
Fox News and Rush Limbaugh are to blame.
“If a Republican member of Congress is not punished on Fox News or by Rush Limbaugh for working with a Democrat on a bill of common interest, then you’ll see more of them doing it,” he said. “I think John Boehner genuinely wanted to get a deal done, but it was hard to do in part because his caucus is more conservative probably than most Republican leaders are, and partly because he is vulnerable to attack for compromising Republican principles and working with Obama.”
democrats, naturally, are entirely reasonable:
The president argued that “the more left-leaning media outlets recognize that compromise is not a dirty word” and that party leaders, including Senate Majority Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, are “willing to buck the more absolutist-wing elements in our party to try to get stuff done.”
But will Reid "get stuff done"? Reid suggested he would allow a Senate vote on the assault weapon ban:
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat, signaled Tuesday that despite earlier indications to the contrary, he may allow a vote on a possible ban on assault weapons.Reid, a longtime gun-rights advocate from Nevada, recently indicated he would not permit a vote because the Republican-led House of Representatives likely wouldn't go along with such a prohibition.
Powerful gun-rights groups oppose a ban on assault weapons and could seek to unseat any lawmaker who backs it, as they have tried to do in the past.
But after a weekly meeting Tuesday with fellow Senate Democrats, Reid told reporters he expects "to have a free amendment process" on gun legislation.
That process could result in other Democrats proposing a possible resurrection of a 10-year ban on semi-automatic assault weapons that expired in 2004.
But GOP Sen. John Barrasso doesn't think an assault weapons ban can pass the Senate and Reid won't bring it to the floor:
(excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net...
He’s right! The 2nd Amendment is about hunting tyrants, criminals, and thugs.
sooooo,
Is the fix in?
Are Americas politicians going to cave to the U.N. and Democrat disarmament plans?
YOU BETCHA.
“I think there is still shock on the part of some in the party that I won re-election.”
I think there is confusion on the part if Obama that other people won re-election, too, and that what he won was not the office of King of Congress. Oh, wait, house Pubs don’t really count because of gerrymandering. Which never helps Dems, only Pubs. Also, racism.
By the way, where was his fealty to majority opinion when passing Obamacare?
“I think there is still shock on the part of some in the party that I won re-election.”
I think there is confusion on the part of Obama that other people won re-election, too, and that what he won was not the office of King of Congress. Oh, wait, house Pubs don’t really count because of gerrymandering. Which never helps Dems, only Pubs. Also, racism.
By the way, where was his fealty to majority opinion when passing Obamacare?
Reid will do what he’s told.
Either way, his political career is over.
He’s had a good run and has been able to amass a huge fortune to assure financial independence for many generations of descendants.
I don’t get the point about the difference between rural and city life, except that it’s meth vs. heroin and dixie mafia vs. gangbangers,, respectively. Serioysly, though, living amidst the violence of Holder’s people might be all the more reason to have a gun.
With all that is going on, better government making way for more constitutional freedoms would be far wiser than gun control. More freedom would be better for the economy and all.
the distinction between rural and urban populations is because the libs have the cities but not the rural areas. So it is easier to limit the fight to the cities and have the others think it isn’t their fight. Once that is done, you go after the rural areas which have been marginalized. It is a two step process. First they came after the x, but I wasn’t an x. When they came after me there was no one left to fight.
We said that the last Reid election, if he wants to run again the Unions will bring it in for him
i tend to think the number of animals that dwell in cities far exceeds the numbers roaming rural lands...
Obama Second Reich File.
Here is a short message good for signs and great for palmcards ;
Democrats and RINOS
GOD DENIERS AND CONGENITAL LIARS
ARE REDISTRIBUTE WEALTH INCITERS
FOR FIRST YOUR MONEY THEN YOUR GUNS
AND BE DEFENSELESS WHEN CROOKS COME
Conservatives and supporters of the 2nd amendment the Obama regime is using the 2nd amendment argument to blame gun owners for its inability to deal with the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings commited in areas under their solid control using illegally obtained firearms.
Obama’s solution to those inner city problems is to remove those rights provided by the constitution to have and bear arms from all US citizens before any search an seizure begins in those troublesome areas which by the way will never happen.
But none of those 23 so called “reforms” and unconstitutional efforts being edicted by who some call an emperor do not deal with the following issues briefly outlined below let alone insane shooters using stolen weapons. .
They won’t because instead of creating a uniformly democratic society where every citizen has an equal voice no matter what their race or ethnicity.
Obama’s policies have divided races and ethnic groups gerrymandering congressional districts where much of this criminal activity occurs.
GOPES {G-overment O-f (the) P-eople (republican party) E-lite-S} see this issue as a 3rd rail because most of it is black on black or illegal vs illegal (Mexican) activity .
GOPES are also afraid to say that policy also increased racial tension which has resited in deaths. But again GOPES accept this because of the influence of mainline socialist media which would be accusing them of “racism” if they dare to question it.
The purpose of all this hype on guns is to keep the right and conservatives focused on what the Demo-Coms describe as issues through their propaganda arm known as the MSM (mainline socialist media) not on the problems created by the “Libs” on their road of good intentions or the socialist/fascists/communists successors to comtrol over todays Democrat party;
Which is the cost ,waste, and corruption of this administration which had led to a 16 trillion dollar deficit.
Not one word addresses or offers a solution about the hundreds of gangland murders and shootings using illegaly obtained mostly handguns and revolvers .
Perpetuating the general populations ignorance and using code words like “assault rifles” they’re demonizing single shot per trigger pull semi automatic rifles, used for small game hunting or target practice. That are legal in every state but made to look like their military counterpart..
Military AR’s since Viet Nam and a DOD decision ARs are really medium caliber (22.3) machine guns designed to wound not necessarilly kill which is why they are automatic and fire as many rounds that are in its magazine once the trigger is kept in the pulled position.
They replace quick kill 30 caliber semi automatic (single shot) M-1, Springfield rifles and carbines used during WWII and Korea and approved in most states for use in big game hunting.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2977901/posts NY Post pix of shooter using handgun
Obama certainly can’t critique a system created by his ilk .Ignored in his 23 edicts is that when once caught, perps get set free with lenient sentencing from “liberal” judges or sob sister plea bargain prosecution (which Obama supports for when a Illinois state senator while introducing legislation to sentence any 15 year old as an adult,(opps they could be fatherless) Obama voted “absent” with others on that roll call vote. But that leniency is promoted by the MSM,The New York Times CNN, NBC and,ABC. There’s certainly no criticism of “no snitch” mentality partcularly in areas where these shootings are rampant.
It would be nice at these rallys if conservatives would point these facts out to Obamas adoring public.
Sen. John F. Kennedy’s statement, Know Your Lawmakers, Guns, April 1960, p. 4 (1960): “By calling attention to ‘a well regulated militia,’ the ‘security’ of the nation, and the right of each citizen ‘to keep and bear arms,’ our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy. Although it is extremely unlikely that the fears of governmental tyranny which gave rise to the Second Amendment will ever be a major danger to our nation, the Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships, in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.”
Sen. Hubert Humphrey’s statement, Know Your Lawmakers, Guns, Feb. 1960, p. 4 (1960): “Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.”
http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/2amteach/sources.htm
Libs think in terms of biting blocks, which obviously are directly tied to power, and taxes, money being indirect power. Their power is in the centers of population. Everywhere else, they think of being stupid, first, for not voting Dem, but that’s a generalized sentiment which Pubs share, only in the other direction. More importantly, perhaps, they think of everywhere outside the cities as evaders of city taxes. They pay taxes, yes, but the cities are where there’s need. Cities are all that really count. How dare outlying areas keep their own money!
Nationally it’s a different story. They’ve won the centralization fight. Washington reaches in and picks individual or corporate money, and only then maybe gives it to the states, who may or may not let non-nih cities in on a sliver of the action. They’d like that sort of system within states, too. So that each center of population, or several of them together, could be their own Washington.
This is why they hate suburbs and the sticks, along with them not voting 100% Dem. They are all potential South Carolina’s in ‘61.
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