Posted on 12/15/2012 1:48:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The White House said President Barack Obama supports reinstatement of a federal ban on assault weapons -- a position he took in the 2008 campaign but failed to press during his first term.
"It does remain a commitment of his," presidential spokesman Jay Carney told reporters as the nation reeled from a mass shooting in Connecticut that mainly killed school children.
An emotional Obama did not address that issue directly in a televised statement from the White House on the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown that killed 26 people but said something had to be done...
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All this crap is so phony. The Kenyan should be ashamed of himself for the way he has acted since this tragedy. Crying my arse. That was some phony BS. Crocodile tears.
Anything semi-automatic regardless of caliber.
Define assault weapons.
Assault weapons: any instrument a human being can use to harm another human being. "He assaulted me." Canons and tanks are darn good "assault weapons." So are axes and arrows. Not as good as muskets (unless properly deployed and employed).
Heck, a semiautomatic .50 cal can ruin your day.
But the best "assault weapon," is a K-bar up close and personal.
Did I mention aircraft? There's a great definition of "assault weapons."
5.56mm
Well, there goes my Brown Bess Musket with the bayonet. It was an assault weapon of choice for almost two hundred years.
But the best “assault weapon,” is a K-bar up close and personal
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You mention ‘up close and personal’, a bunch of ragheads did a pretty decent job of ‘assaulting’ a whole bunch of people with inexpensive, box cutters....
Will Oblamo include abortion instruments in his ban of *assault weapons*? Nah...didn’t think so. (Because it’s not really about protecting innocents.)
I listened to Obama’s statement as I was driving home from work, and I was surprised at how upset he sounded. Then I watched it later. This guy is the LOUSIEST actor I ever saw! I’m willing to bet his statement had WIPE EYE NOW and PAUSE AND LOOK DOWN NOW inserted into the text.
“Anything semi-automatic regardless of caliber.”
Exactly right
Don’t let Libs like Obama define the language! I have a feeling if Obama and the Commie party get their way anything more powerfull than a BB gun will be an assault weapon.
Any weapon our Marxist overlords deem a threat to their absolute power.
A system of licensing and registration is the perfect device to deny gun ownership to the bourgeoisie.
Lenin (1870-1924) “The Beginning of the Revolution in Russia”
To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave
them.
George Mason (1725-1792)
Elliot, Debates at 380
When the Cambrian measures were forming,
They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave Them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us, and delivered us, bound, to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: “Stick to the Devil you know.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
The Gods of the Copy Book Headings, 5th Stanza, 1919
Obama doesn’t have to run again - let’s see what we hear from the Dem leaders (hint: crickets).
The response to this incident is very predictable. In all western countries where private gun ownership has been effectively banned, there has always been some sort of tragedy like this which anti-gun politicians have used to manipulate public opinion. As terrible as this crime was, the left will do all it can to push gun-control. Supporters of the 2nd Amendment will have to get prepared for an intense and protracted effort to deprives us of our Constitutional rights.
We need to ban assault rocks too.
All this crap is so phony. The Kenyan should be ashamed of himself for the way he has acted since this tragedy. Crying my arse. That was some phony BS. Crocodile tears.
where are the tears for F&F and Bengazhi.
life is precious regardless of age or circumstance
What assault weapon was used in CT?
For the media’s and the gun grabbers purpose, every gun is an assault weapon.
I guess if he doesn’t watch killings real time then he gets very emotional. Almost to the point of tears.
Lib logic... ban a class of weapons that wasn’t involved.
It’s the old “round up the usual suspects” routine again.
TelePrompTer: wipe eye now!
Honestly, we can't flee to countries like Australia, Canada, Great Britain, all with significant gun control.
Assault weapon - any gun that scares a politician.
Now the story’s changed, and the ME is saying the kids he examined has .223 wounds. One question I’ll be pondering is how a single mom - substitute teacher could afford over two grand of miscellaneous weapons.
The liberals won’t be happy until they outlaw all guns. Except for government law enforcement goons, of course. A monopoly on power is as it is with all totalitarian governments.
“Assault rifles”?
Under their definition, a Ruger 10-22 would be an assault rifle. And a Browning Buckmark .22 pistol would be an assault weapon.
I have a good prima facie, categorical definition from `Guns’ magazine that I’ve posted before, if you want to see it.
Off the top of my head, an “assault rifle” uses: an intermediate power round, larger than a submachine gun, but smaller than a rifle round, so the Ruger and Browning are off the list; a detachable magazine—there go most semi-auto hunting rifles; and, most importantly, it must be capable of fully automatic fire.
The gun grabbers don’t like that definition because “assault rifles” are already regulated.
(OK, get ready—here comes the rhetoric)
`Gun control’ is the third rail for politicians. Like the king of England and his house of lords, the Beltway crowd and their boy king can do whatever they want, and the People will follow or they won’t.
When the latter occurs, on at least one occasion—specifically about 400 years ago—it cost one king his head. Notice that even Dingy Harry is keeping his powder fairly dry here?
But if they are going to throw around terms like “assault rifles,” and banning them, we are going to have to demand that they define their terms.
And that before Boner the Weepy and the GOP-e start accepting promises and statements like, “We have to pass it so we can see what’s in it!” and assurances that the bill will be thoroughly debated on CNN and that the golfer-in-chief will veto certain portions, and so forth and so on, since this president and his cronies lie in their sleep.
Otherwise they should be told to pound sand unless they actually stop killing babies. Then we agree to put some kind of gun legislation on the table. For example, I have no use for a 20MM Vulcan; I am amenable to some sort of action on limiting the sale of electric chain Gatling guns to felons, young black men resembling Obama, and young white men who demonstrate to the world that they are `Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs’ ... and all Democrats.
We aren’t completely unreasonable. There it is, best offer.
...”over two grand of miscellaneous weapons”...
and the cost to train her son to use them. Well.
do I really have to say it???
hell... they treat us like we are now!!! 
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and i'm half way through EFaD, AGAIN!!!
This might be “a law too far.” Classic overreach. Time will tell, but the next year will be extra-interesting.
“This guy is the LOUSIEST actor I ever saw! I’m willing to bet his statement had WIPE EYE NOW and PAUSE AND LOOK DOWN NOW inserted into the text.”
Makes you want to puke.
“One question I’ll be pondering is how a single mom - substitute teacher could afford over two grand of miscellaneous weapons....”
She was a single mom receiving over $200,000 a year in alimony according to one report.....
yes, double-plus-interesting indeed...
It sounded sincere, but watching his “tear wipe” was so fake.
The local CBS affiliate said that “police style” Glock and Sig Sauer hand guns were used in the school and a “military stile” .22 rifle was found in his car.
Shame has been selected out of the leftist genome.
The more I think about this the more I think the end is nigh for the manufactur or sale of any semi automatics. This may be the biggest story since 9/11. Man when they start bringing those little coffins out. 12 little girls 6 little boys. 6 grown woman and not one man. When this happens the woman’s vote will be 99% for gun control. It’s over. Any “old white guy” who gets on TV to defend gun ownership will have as much of a chance of getting elected as Custer’s bugler.
Don’t count on the courts to back us up on this either. Forget the echo chamber here. This changes everything.
There really isn’t any other place to go. Even if I could leave, I wouldn’t. We will have to make our stand here. We will have to fortify ourselves because they will use the sadness from this latest shooting to undermine our resolve.
I think your analysis is spot on.
Scary looking gun.
Then again, it depends who thinks it’s scary looking, doesn’t it? “Call me Senator” Barbara Boxer actually had her staff go through Gun Catalogs to gather a listing of Guns that were put on the original Clinton era Assault Weapon Ban list.
If it looked scary to her Liberal effeminate staff members, it was an Assault Weapon.
I think Obama is scary looking, can we ban him?
Assault Weapon: Any device, or picture of said device, which is designed to propel a bullet from itself.
And double-action revolvers will be classified as semi-automatics...
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