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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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.
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