Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | January 14, 2013 | Charles J. Lewis

[2ndDivisionVet]

One month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., President Obama attributed the recent surge of weapons sales to efforts by gun control foes to arouse fears that the federal government would seize firearms.

Obama said he would unveil details of his "sensible, common-sense" program for tighter gun controls later this week. The president, responding to questions at a White House news conference Monday, said those steps would include "an assault weapons ban that is meaningful," stronger background checks and measures to keep high-capacity magazine clips "out of the hands of folks who shouldn't have them."

Asked at his news conference about the boom in weapons sales amid administration efforts to tighten gun rules, Obama said gun control opponents "have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away."

The administration's gun control agenda is being fashioned by Vice President Joe Biden...

[Twinkie]

Let me see; “folks” that shouldn’t have them . . would that be “Tea Party” “folks” and Conservative “folks”? Certainly not “Occupy” “folks”! Up is down. Down is up. Good is bad. Bad is good. - It IS scary.

[potlatch]

Thanks Travis, I’ve been seeing and admiring your graphics.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Frightened?

Of course we are.

1. Governments have murdered 262 million of their own citizens in the past 113 years
2. Gun control was always the first step
3. The overwhelming majority of those murders were perpetrated by Socialist/Communist/Marxist governments
4. Comrade Ubama is a rigid Marxist ideologue

Any questions?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Nero Caesar was what you described, and he was very dangerous.

[Boogieman]

“Obama said he would unveil details of his “sensible, common-sense” program for tighter gun controls”

Notice that they call it a program and not a proposal. The President can only propose laws, he has no authority to make laws himself, so anything proper that he comes up with should at most be a proposal, to be submitted to Congress. The fact that they are calling it a “program” is admitting right there that what he is planning is unconstitutional.

Someone tried to tell me today that he was going to do this through Executive Orders, and read something from wikipedia that says EOs are binding laws. Well, I replied that I don’t give a darn what wikipedia, or the Supreme Court says about it, there is no authority in the Constitution for the President to make laws. If he tries to do that, I will consider them unconstitutional and feel free to disobey them at my discretion with no worries of conscience.

[justa-hairyape]

So the president said that we have an irrational fear that he is going to take our guns away, then says he’s going to propose banning guns?

We are not supposed to notice those things. Such as noticing that shooting someone in California has less consequences then shooting someone in Texas.

[Fledermaus]

Typical libs. I’m visitng my parents and dad had in on CNN (I know) and that Brit idiot Morgan came on and it was a “gun” special.

In the first 5 minutes they laid out some of the proposed ideas by the administration and the guest (some idiot mayor, Dem) actually said, “while these ideas won’t stop gun crime or violence, they are sensible”.

HUH? Orwell was a prophet.

[Travis McGee]

Thanks, glad you like them, forward or copy them to your “moderate” friends and family.....it’s meme warfare.

[Travis McGee]

You cannot defeat perfect utopian thinking with facts or logic.

[txhurl]

It IS meme warfare... all we can do is turn the statehouses redder and redder since we lost national vote integrity.

[Gene Eric]

Not by fear, asshole.

[TLI]

http://www.newsmax.com/Surveys/Results/id/64

Should the federal government regulate guns of any type?
Yes, it should 20,366(23%)
No, it should not 64,655(76%)

Should Congress ban semi-automatic weapons?
Yes, it should 14,875(17%)
No, it should not 70,496(82%)

If Congress does not act, should President Obama use an executive order to ban or strictly control the sale of semi-automatic weapons?
Yes, he should 12,764(14%)
No, he should not 72,559(85%)

Do you agree that the Second Amendment gives citizens the right to own and bear guns without infringement?
Yes, I agree 73,634(86%)
No, I don't agree 11,755(13%)

Four to one against little bammy... .

[publius911]

Gun sale surge driven by fear, Obama says

You got that right, doofus.
Fear that the wannabe tinpot african muslim dictator will finish going through the Bill of Rights and cancelling them all untouched by Congress, the Law, the Supreme Court and supported by his perceived mandate by the mob of fraudulent voters.

[andyk]

I love how they don’t want to take away my guns. Well, except for AR-15s. But that doesn’t count.

[potlatch]

"it’s meme warfare."
You bet it is, and there's more 'behind the scenes' stuff that most people aren't aware of.....

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[vortec94]

Have you read Uninteded Consequences?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.

[Hoodat]

Obama’s gun control efforts are driven by fear.

[familyop]

He’s projecting the hysteria of his small anti-American, anti-Second-Amendment constituency on his enemies: Americans.

[Eaker]

Perfect little props for Nazi style destruction of the American Constitution.