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Obama: Time to address American culture ‘that too often glorifies guns and violence’
Washington Examiner ^ | 12/21/12 | Charlie Spiering

Posted on 12/21/2012 4:42:28 PM PST by Libloather

Obama: Time to address American culture ‘that too often glorifies guns and violence’
Charlie Spiering - Commentary Staff Writer
Modified: December 21, 2012 at 6:35 am

President Obama this morning issued a video response to a White House petition demanding more gun control – specifically mentioning America’s gun culture.

**SNIP**

“If we work harder to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, there would be fewer atrocities like the one in Newtown — or any of the lesser-known tragedies that visit small towns and big cities all across America every day,” Obama concluded.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; fastandfurious; guncontrol; guns; kill; obama; secondamendment; violence
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To: nascarnation

Are they any different from any other radical left wing socialists throughout history? More subtle perhaps. Better at hiding their agenda behind smoke and mirrors. Their end game is obvious to anyone with any sense of history though.


21 posted on 12/21/2012 5:09:35 PM PST by RC one (From My Cold Dead Hands.)
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To: RC one

I think the biggest difference today is that we have a pervasive media presence that cheerleads for the progressive agenda.


22 posted on 12/21/2012 5:15:32 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


23 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:11 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


24 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:11 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


25 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:11 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


26 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:11 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


27 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:11 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


28 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:19 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


29 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:19 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


30 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:25 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Newbomb Turk

Time for all guns to be removed from Bo and all his government workers.


31 posted on 12/21/2012 5:20:49 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: RC one

The greatest progressive successes came in the first 20 or 30 years of the 1900s.


32 posted on 12/21/2012 5:21:18 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Libloather

I’m sure there are a bunch of us who have some extra NRA bumber stickers hanging around.

I wonder what would happen if these stickers started appearing on the vehicles of those among us who are spouting anti-gun rhetoric?


33 posted on 12/21/2012 5:27:13 PM PST by patriotsblood
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To: Libloather

Heh. Look at real quotes from the Obama Administration response to anti-Second-Amendment petitions. Gun grabbers are mad, no doubt.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2971118/posts

Join Second Amendment organizations. Write your congressional and state assembly members.


34 posted on 12/21/2012 5:28:08 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: Libloather

****Obama: Time to address American culture ‘that too often glorifies guns and violence****

IT’S 1968 ALL OVER AGAIN! Even the words are the same.

“That too often glorifies guns and violence”

Now lets ad...

“Law and Order”, “Peace and Safety”

All that is missing is “Peace with Honor.”


35 posted on 12/21/2012 5:36:15 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
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To: Libloather

The only problem today with American Culture is that as a pool of virtue, it lacks sufficiency in that element to the point that it voted for this despot.

Clearly, his base of Øbamaphone acquirers has ZERØ virtue.

“I have observed that gentlemen suppose that the general legislature will do every thing mischievous they possibly can, and that they will omit to do every thing good which they are authorized to do. If this were a reasonable supposition, their objections would be good. I consider it reasonable to conclude that they will as readily do their duty as deviate from it; nor do I go on the grounds mentioned by gentlemen on the other side — that we are to place unlimited confidence in them, and expect nothing but the most exalted integrity and sublime virtue. But I go on this great republican principle, that the people will have virtue and intelligence to select men of virtue and wisdom. Is there no virtue among us? If there be not, we are in a wretched situation. No theoretical checks, no form of government, can render us secure. To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea. If there be sufficient virtue and intelligence in the community, it will be exercised in the selection of these men; so that we do not depend on their virtue, or put confidence in our rulers, but in the people who are to choose them.”
James Madison (speech at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 20 June 1788)


36 posted on 12/21/2012 5:41:28 PM PST by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: Libloather

Kenyan-born, B. Hussein Obama has secured his place in History as the Anti-Christ that was twice elected to an Office that he could not legally accept.


38 posted on 12/21/2012 6:16:44 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Communal Obama"care" violates Anti-Trust Laws, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: Libloather

You mean like this Mr. Prezident?

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/Obama_brings_a_gun_to_a_knife_fight.html

hmmm it seems this quote was checked out and this is what factcheck had to say about it.

http://www.factcheck.org/2011/01/obama-guns-and-the-untouchables/

Hypocrite!!!


39 posted on 12/21/2012 6:28:04 PM PST by joesjane ((The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling))
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To: Libloather

LEAVE MY GUNS ALONE JERK WAD!!!


40 posted on 12/21/2012 6:45:38 PM PST by Route395
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