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President Obama: We must seek agreement on gun reforms
The Arizona Daily Star ^ | March 13, 2011 | President Barack Obama Special To The Arizona Daily Star

Posted on 03/13/2011 7:26:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Mobilemitter
Over 6 million registered gun owners DID NOT commit a crime today.

If those folks have registered themselves as a gun owners, they are pretty much playing obama's game already.

41 posted on 03/13/2011 7:55:28 PM PDT by farmguy
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To: Sacajaweau
yes, cops were giving the pervert a free pass cause they knew his mom.
42 posted on 03/13/2011 8:00:20 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: Sacajaweau
yes, cops were giving the pervert a free pass cause they knew his mom.
43 posted on 03/13/2011 8:00:32 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What we need more than gun reforms is sentencing reforms. Currently, something like 1% of all homicides are punished with a death sentence. I’d like to see that number rise to 50%. It would also be nice to expedite the trial, sentencing and appeals procedures for capital crimes. Singapore completes the whole process in 2 years. Its homicide rate per 100,000 people is 1% of ours.


44 posted on 03/13/2011 8:00:48 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After seeing the total destruction in Japan, does anyone not realize this orderly and comfortable life can be turned into a primitive jungle in an instant?


45 posted on 03/13/2011 8:02:06 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Lazamataz
Should that not be applied. Does Obama think we are so overwhelmed with his bullshit we can't take anymore...... tt

Bring it Kenya child, you have the reigns but you sure as hell don't have the horse.

46 posted on 03/13/2011 8:03:28 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hey nobama, you worthless POS, what kills more Americans each day, guns or abortion?

Huh?


47 posted on 03/13/2011 8:04:20 PM PDT by upchuck (When excerpting please use the entire 300 words we are allowed. No more one or two sentence posts!)
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To: Mobilemitter
Over 6 million registered gun owners DID NOT commit a crime today. GET OVER IT.

Neither did the 94 million law-abiding gun owners who aren't registered.

48 posted on 03/13/2011 8:04:43 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

The 2nd Amendment is my agreement nothing less.


49 posted on 03/13/2011 8:06:04 PM PDT by Americanexpat (Everytime I see that guy's face ot)
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50 posted on 03/13/2011 8:06:21 PM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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51 posted on 03/13/2011 8:06:29 PM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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52 posted on 03/13/2011 8:07:27 PM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: Americanexpat

53 posted on 03/13/2011 8:09:53 PM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Every time the self-defense denialists raise this issue, our legislators should respond with a non-stop barrage of bills and amendments that eliminate restrictions on the right to self-defense, and strengthen the legal safeguards for the unfettered exercise of that right.

Make them afraid to even mention the subject.


54 posted on 03/13/2011 8:12:36 PM PDT by sourcery (If true=false, then there would be no constraints on what is possible. Hence, the world exists.)
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55 posted on 03/13/2011 8:15:33 PM PDT by TheCause ("that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When progressives talk about gun “reform” it means that the law-abiding American is going to get screwed.
56 posted on 03/13/2011 8:17:08 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: TigersEye
I'm not so sure, in this particular case, that new mental health laws would have made any difference.

Not long after the shooting happened, I remember reading that it is easier to get someone involuntarily committed in Arizona than in most states. If that is true, then the young man involved should have been evaluated before the shooting and before he bought his gun.

Not only had he had previous legal difficulties, which were glossed over and not used to mandate a mental health evaluation; he was expelled from the local community college with the explicit instructions that he not return until he could present evidence that he was not a danger to himself nor others.

That certainly should have triggered an involuntary commitment action.

The failure here was not a failure in the gun purchasing system; there was nothing in the system to set off an alarm. The failure was not in the mental health system, which can't help people it does not know. It was not a failure of the educational system; the college can't seek a commitment.

If the legal system- the local sheriff's office- had pressed for an evaluation when it first became obvious that there was a problem, then perhaps the young man could have been helped and the whole episode averted.

57 posted on 03/13/2011 8:17:08 PM PDT by susannah59
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My point was simply that it is already against the law for a mentally incompetent person to buy a gun and that no other “gun law” could do more than that.


58 posted on 03/13/2011 8:22:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The man-boy can’t hand the JOB of President, now he wants to be the Governor of Arizona. GO F yourself you fag Muslim basturd.


59 posted on 03/13/2011 8:27:20 PM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here's a counter-proposal, one that is constitutionally valid unlike the Kenyan Clown's standard left-wing gun-grabbing garbage.

Get the federal government, which is forbidden by the Second Amendment to infringe on any American's right to keep and bear firearms, out of an area where they are constitutionally forbidden.

We can easily implement this by passing my version of a Federal Firearms Freedom Act, which repeals all federal gun control and firearms taxes:

Federal Firearms Freedom Act

1) United States Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 44 is hereby repealed in its entirety.
2) United States Code Title 26, Subtitle E, Chapter 53 is hereby repealed in its entirety.

The first part takes care of all of 922 and 923. The second part takes care of the Internal Revenue Code related to 922 and 923.

60 posted on 03/13/2011 8:33:08 PM PDT by snowsislander
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