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Obama: America needs "soul searching" on gun violence
reuters ^ | 8/6/12 | Matt Spetalnick

Posted on 08/06/2012 4:30:15 PM PDT by ColdOne

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were occurring with "too much regularity" and should prompt soul searching by all Americans, but he stopped short of calling for new gun-control laws.

"All of us are heart-broken by what happened," Obama told reporters at the White House a day after a gunman opened fire on Sikh worshippers preparing for religious services, killing six before he was shot dead by a police officer.

But when asked whether he would push for further gun-control measures in the wake of the shootings, Obama said only that he wanted to bring together leaders at all levels of American society to examine ways to curb gun violence.

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To: ColdOne

If he really wanted to reduce violent crime, he would stop supporting policies that destroy the black family.


41 posted on 08/06/2012 5:17:06 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.)
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To: ColdOne

As society is shredded by the Liberal Vision these tings will occur more and more. It is part of a disintegration of a society. The government surely can’t/won’t stop these things short of a rigid totalitarian state which is what seems to be coming. Generations if public school children have been deprived of connection to the past and cannot discern when impossible utopias are are presented as political programs. The situation cannot be corrected. It is far too late.


42 posted on 08/06/2012 5:18:48 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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To: ColdOne

I searched my soul and, in the last week, have bought 2 able firearms at private treaty and 3,000 rounds to support them.


43 posted on 08/06/2012 5:23:19 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Lion Den Dan

Soul searching is better left up to someone who actually has a soul.


44 posted on 08/06/2012 5:33:21 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Mitt better grow a pair or this thing will be over soon.)
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To: ColdOne

The words “shall no be infringed” mean anything to you, 0gabe? They sure mean something to the Millions who are literally willing to die fighting over the issue. But go ahead and trigger another Lexington and Concord...I’m sure it will work out well for us all.


45 posted on 08/06/2012 5:35:01 PM PDT by Trod Upon (Obama: Making the Carter malaise look good. Misery Index in 3...2...1)
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To: ColdOne

America needs “soul searching” on letting an orc take over the shire.


46 posted on 08/06/2012 5:37:49 PM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama Kills))
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To: arthurus

That is why it is important to take America back.


47 posted on 08/06/2012 5:43:41 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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To: ColdOne
Maybe all of these shootings are just the beginning of the social breakdown that Obama and his Red friends had planned for us.

This also could be another way of getting around the Fast and Furious scandal and getting to the same conclusion.I don't trust this occupent of the White House at all.He's Just evil.

48 posted on 08/06/2012 5:55:47 PM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: ColdOne; Clint N. Suhks; smokingfrog; mylife

I’m betting that he has a drawer full of EOs banning ammo, mags, firearms for signing on Nov 5th, if he’s losing badly. If he wins on Nov 6th, he’ll unleash them on Nov 7th, bypassing the US Congress. He’s got nothing left to lose, either way. SHTF.


49 posted on 08/06/2012 6:00:13 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (Harry Reid [PERVERT-NV] has Vickie-the-goat in lingerie and stiletto heels, tied-up in his office.)
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To: ColdOne

We need some “soul searching” about getting this Bill of Rights trampling, Kenyan lowlife out of the White House come November. FUBO. They are MY rights! They are not yours to take away.


50 posted on 08/06/2012 6:03:36 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The NRA did not create James "The Joker" Holmes. Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood did.)
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To: carriage_hill
Hey Barry, Search this!


51 posted on 08/06/2012 6:04:34 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: ColdOne
Can we do some soul-searching on why blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of the murders?

Or are we only interested in punishing Whitey if we can find an excuse?

52 posted on 08/06/2012 6:05:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the collectivists.)
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To: Biggirl

It doesn’t really matter if we take it back. We cannot change what the Education System has done. Take i back with Romney? I don’t think so. Romney is a Manager and as such he will Manage the system he is in charge of. He has no thought to restore the system.He is not equipped to have any such thought, only to manage what he has. He will manage it as a CEO and will not spin off new enterprises, will not decentralize anything. He will solidify what Obama has built and make it more efficient. I don’t think we can even nominally “take it back” with Romney.He is not campaigning positively. He is playing Defense and eschewing most of the advantages he might have even in defense. He says Obama has failed but has not philosophical vision to replace him with. Reagan showed how it is done. Mainstream Republicans, and Romney is the mainest of stream, cannot understand Reagan’s way, much less replicate it. Romney, barring some political epiphany of tremendous proportion, will probably lose even the legitimate vote, before the 8 or 9% of fraudulent vote is added in..


53 posted on 08/06/2012 6:09:47 PM PDT by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson)
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To: ColdOne
No, President Obamagabe! America needs you to pack your chit and take you, your fat arse wife, her mother, the barber, your kids and the Kennedy dog and get out of our HOUSE. America needs to rid itself of your divisiveness. These killings are a result of the atmosphere of class warfare and racism that you and the rest of your Communist ilk have purposely brought upon us. GET OUT!
54 posted on 08/06/2012 6:12:58 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (If Barack has a memory like a steel trap, why can't he remember what the Constitution says?)
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To: carriage_hill

That’s exactly why I’m restocking. I can’t find a 40 round mag close in VA. Found a sixty though. Seems too big too heavy though.


55 posted on 08/06/2012 6:38:59 PM PDT by Clint N. Suhks (EAT MOR CHIKIN)
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Okay, searched my soul and concluded that murder is indeed against the law. What to search for next, genius?


56 posted on 08/06/2012 6:42:32 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Doogle

“FUBO”

AMEN! I don’t need that kenyan born, muslim, lying, “gaffe” prone, teleprompter reader, inarticulate *ick preaching to me about my soul. Look to your own, kenyan - if you have one. Maybe you left it in Indonesia or wherever the hell you’re really from.


57 posted on 08/06/2012 7:31:38 PM PDT by Student0165
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58 posted on 08/06/2012 7:55:27 PM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93destr)
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To: ColdOne

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If only America knew...

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59 posted on 08/06/2012 8:00:12 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: ColdOne

who do you think organized those thugs in chicago..The Community Organizer...what else would he organize. only criminals deserve guns.


60 posted on 08/06/2012 8:17:21 PM PDT by dalebert
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