Posted on 12/20/2012 9:05:27 AM PST by IbJensen
WASHINGTON (AP) - Spurred by a horrific elementary school shooting, President Barack Obama vowed to send Congress new policy proposals for reducing gun violence by January.
"This time, the words need to lead to action," Obama said Wednesday. He tasked Vice President Joe Biden with leading an administration-wide effort to create the new recommendations and pledged to push for their implementation without delay.
The president, who exerted little political capital on gun control despite a series of mass shootings in his first term, bristled at suggestions that he had been silent on the issue during his first four years in office. But he acknowledged that Friday's deadly shooting had been "a wake-up call for all of us."
Twenty children and six adults were killed when a man carrying a military-style rifle stormed Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., Friday morning.
The president also called on Congress Wednesday to reinstate an assault weapons ban that expired in 2004 and to pass legislation that would close the gun show "loophole," which allows people to purchase firearms from private dealers without a background check. Obama also said he wanted Congress to pursue the possibility of limiting high-capacity ammunition clips.
"The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing," Obama said. "The fact that we can't prevent every act of violence doesn't mean we can't steadily reduce the violence."
The president's announcement Wednesday underscores the urgency the White House sees in formulating a response to the Newtown shooting. The massacre has prompted several congressional gun rights supporters to consider new legislation to control firearms, and there is some concern that their willingness to engage could fade as the shock and sorrow over the Newtown shooting eases.
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Just another timely diversion from fiscal matters—continued irresponsible government spending—spiraling debt headed towards the $20 trillion mark—tax some more and tax some more—where’s all your concern for that Obama? Where’s your concern for the American people as a whole? And, as usual, you put somebody else in charge of coming up with a plan for “gun control” just as you do everything else because, as usual, you have no plan—you have no idea—you have no clue.
But there was a very big bunch of idiots who voted this idiot back into office. And can you believe that Time Magazine voted Obama Person of the Year?? Doesn’t take much to impress any more does it?
Never let a crisis go to waste...while you’re “other hand” is dismantling the country and its Constitution!
Citizen Control is alive and well.
Great. His administration coming clean about Fast and Furious. Excellent!
You better believe these proposals are already typed
up and waiting to be passed.
Between now and the first of the year, during the
holidays there is not enough TIME to write these up.
So they have been written up all along, just waiting
for the right opportunity.
Democrats are like a cancer.
I’m SURE that what joe biteme comes up with will end gun violence forever! It will put a big dent in the Constitution for sure.
What? You don’t believe the likes of Duncan and Sebelius can come up with something fair and unbiased?
LOL
Guns were banned at this public school. Many such mass murderers are cowards. They don't want to run into an armed victim. When armed responders are threatening to show, that is when the cowardly murderer takes his own life. Gun-control.
“We don’t need no steenking input.”
I agree. They’ve been written up for decades. It’s just that now they think they can get away with implementation.
Hope all is going good for you Tet68.
Obama going to Hawaii for 3 weeks and he expects his gun grab now will be ready to go when he gets back.
Obama wants to take action before the police investigation is even complete
“Assault rifle” is defined in Connecticut law. There was no assault rifle used.
http://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap943.htm#Sec53-202a.htm
Toughest Christmas in years, mom not doing well but
we make the best of it.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.-^^^^-
God bless us everyone.
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BTW, how many people have been killed by Obomas own gun running? Maybe we should outlaw people like Oboma first, then talk.
I did some digging last night and found a few things. The FBI estimates that about 100 million US households have legal firearms and they also tracked about 350 deaths where a “rifle” was used. Semi-automatic rifles are some subset of that 350 number, but it is not explicitly tracked separately from bolt actions, pump actions or single shot rifles. So, the rate of “preventable deaths from semi-automatic rifles that are not needed” is no more than 0.00035%.
Then I went to the CDC stats and found that they estimate that about 8-10 million US households have swimming pools and they tracked about 3,500 drowning deaths, but they do not track specifically the subset of drownings that occurred in bath tubs, lakes, streams or swimming pools. So, the rate of “preventable deaths from swimming pools that are not needed” is no more than 0.035%.
Our governments own numbers are showing us that swimming pools are 1,000 times more dangerous than semi-automatic rifles!
If we are willing to accept the premise that the federal government should infringe on our liberty to address unnecessary deaths, then we would see much more value in banning swimming pools! In addition, we would cause harm to much fewer individuals and we don’t even have to deal with a Constitutional issue. Heck, we all know that swimming pools are a luxury that no family needs!
We should only allow people to swim in government owned pools.
Or we could simply live with the consequences of individual liberty and understand that we can address evil doers whenever possible, but we will never be able to stop all evil.
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