Posted on 07/15/2007 2:22:41 PM PDT by NRA2BFree
CHICAGO (AP) - Standing before a church congregation that has witnessed inner-city violence firsthand, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that more must be done to end a social ill that is "sickening the soul of this nation." Obama told churchgoers at the Vernon Park Church of God on Chicago's South Side that too many young lives are being claimed by violence and more must be done to combat the problem.
"From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there's an epidemic of violence that's sickening the soul of this nation," the Illinois senator told the crowd. "The violence is unacceptable and it's got to stop."
Nearly three dozen Chicago students have been killed this year, according to Chicago Public Schools. Obama said that figure is higher than the number of Illinois serviceman who've died in Iraq in 2007.
"We need to express our collective anger through collective action," Obama said.
He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.
He also said government should support and fund more after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. But some of the burden must also be shouldered by residents who need to do more to raise and protect at-risk children, he added.
"We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle," Obama said. "There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path."
He later added, "There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."
It might even pass constitutional muster...
What is thie poltician doiong speaking at a church??? How do the dems get away with this?? We all pay taxes that support the agencies (FEC) that is supposed to be doing some damn something to the exempt status of these black, fake churches who wouldn’t preach the word if Jesus himself came and told them to.
I’m sick of the phonies who are okay wioth abortion because they support every sick dem that comes along.
Get off your ass government employees. YOu work for this sside of the aile to.
“”We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle,” Obama said. “There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path.”
He later added, “There’s a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don’t love themselves. And the reason they don’t love themselves is because we are not loving them enough.”
They get plenty of TLC in the school systems, since teachers are systematically prevented from properly disciplining them. They dont respect authority, have no interest in learning, and it begins with the lousy jobs their parents are doing in the neighborhoods which are proliferated by gangs. And the chances are good that those parents will be voting for oba or hitlery.
Where is the ACLU? The IRS?
Sorry for the typos—I’m mad as hell.
If you want to end crime ban criminals. And what’s with the Benito Mussolini chin out pose there?
If you believe the conventional wisdom he’s touched the third rail and he’s toast. He’s at least being an honest Democrat though. Hillary will straddle the issue and if she’s elected push full steam ahead with an anti gun agenda. So would any Democrat for that matter.
It’s not the guns Obamasama, it’s the killers. You politicians in Chicago have coddled them too long.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Spoken like a true communist.
you’ll never hear the words mandatory sentencing, hard labor,
punishment or the death penalty.
Empty words from an empty suit.
you’ll never hear the words mandatory sentencing, hard labor,
punishment or the death penalty.
Empty words from an empty suit.
Yeah, that’s right, Barry! I’m not lovin’ the thugs!
Barry, the reason they’re shooting each other is that they weren’t raised by affluent white grandparents in Hawaii and did not attend elite private schools. Isn’t that right, Barry?
Barack Obama is more radical than Hillary.
Seeing as how I don't live in one of those places like Baltimore or South Central LA or Newark NJ and don't consider to be part of their little 'We're all a bit responsible when a young crack seller dies from gun violence' socialist commune, I'm going to have to stamp this proposal from Barack Obama a bit fat 'NO'.
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