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Obama remains committed to assault weapons ban, White House says
CNN ^ | December 15, 2012 | Halimah Abdullah

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: awb; banglist; connecticut; guncontrol; obama; secondamendment
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Define assault weapons.
1 posted on 12/15/2012 1:48:24 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


2 posted on 12/15/2012 1:53:50 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (It's not about the guns. It's about the control.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Anything semi-automatic regardless of caliber.


3 posted on 12/15/2012 1:54:44 PM PST by DownInFlames
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good afternoon.

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

4 posted on 12/15/2012 2:01:00 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, there goes my Brown Bess Musket with the bayonet. It was an assault weapon of choice for almost two hundred years.


5 posted on 12/15/2012 2:02:28 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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But the best “assault weapon,” is a K-bar up close and personal
= = = = = = = = = = = =
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....


6 posted on 12/15/2012 2:04:55 PM PST by xrmusn (6/98 "It is virtually impossible to clean the pond as long as the pigs are still crapping in it")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Will Oblamo include abortion instruments in his ban of *assault weapons*? Nah...didn’t think so. (Because it’s not really about protecting innocents.)


7 posted on 12/15/2012 2:05:19 PM PST by Jane Long (Philippians 2:11)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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.


8 posted on 12/15/2012 2:05:41 PM PST by Mangia E Statti Zitto
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To: DownInFlames

“Anything semi-automatic regardless of caliber.”

Exactly right


9 posted on 12/15/2012 2:13:45 PM PST by Blackirish (Forward Comrades!!!!!!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


10 posted on 12/15/2012 2:18:55 PM PST by jakerobins
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Define assault weapons.

Any weapon our Marxist overlords deem a threat to their absolute power.

11 posted on 12/15/2012 2:21:26 PM PST by matt1234
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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


12 posted on 12/15/2012 2:38:43 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (SAVE THE SUMATRAN RAT MONKEY!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama doesn’t have to run again - let’s see what we hear from the Dem leaders (hint: crickets).


13 posted on 12/15/2012 2:40:14 PM PST by BobL (Did you know that the Chinese now buy close to twice as many new cars as Americans each year?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


14 posted on 12/15/2012 2:46:11 PM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Committee of Correspondence)
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We need to ban assault rocks too.

http://coastal.news14.com/content/headlines/624176/woman-killed-by-rock-thrown-from-overpass—teens-charged


15 posted on 12/15/2012 2:52:52 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

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


16 posted on 12/15/2012 2:55:36 PM PST by patriotspride
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What assault weapon was used in CT?


17 posted on 12/15/2012 3:07:48 PM PST by txrefugee
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To: txrefugee

For the media’s and the gun grabbers purpose, every gun is an assault weapon.


18 posted on 12/15/2012 3:12:04 PM PST by sport
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess if he doesn’t watch killings real time then he gets very emotional. Almost to the point of tears.


19 posted on 12/15/2012 3:16:32 PM PST by BigLittle (Let us not expect the spiritual spring until we first pass through the spiritual winter.)
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To: txrefugee

Lib logic... ban a class of weapons that wasn’t involved.

It’s the old “round up the usual suspects” routine again.


20 posted on 12/15/2012 3:23:07 PM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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