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Obama: Gun-control advocates have to listen more
Yahoo News ^ | Jan 27, 2013 | AP

Posted on 01/27/2013 4:17:42 AM PST by driftdiver

President Barack Obama says gun-control advocates have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes in the debate over firearms in America.

In an interview with The New Republic, Obama says he has "a profound respect" for the tradition of hunting that dates back for generations.

"And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake. Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas," he says.

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"Yes," the president says, "in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Texas Fossil

I heard somewhere recently that “It’s not a bill of needs, It’s a bill of rights”. So much for how many bullets I need to kill a deer!!!


41 posted on 01/27/2013 5:57:58 AM PST by fishnsoldier (The second ammendment ensures they don't forget about the others.)
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To: driftdiver
Its not just Obama we’re fighting. There is a large cadre of well organized and funded communists who are working for the downfall of America.

Absolutely, which is why we underestimate this man at our own peril. Every move he makes, every word that comes from his mouth is well thought out and with a purpose with that army behind him organizing and executing their strategy. This is all about winning the public opinion war. He is no fool.

We need to be willing to meet effort with effort. It will take work, but without it we will lose.

42 posted on 01/27/2013 5:59:14 AM PST by EagleInGA
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To: driftdiver
First its not about hunting. Second I don't believe it has gone skeet shooting, he may hang a mean curtain but no skeet. He and those with him know this - they also ascribe to the "tell a big enough lie often enough and people will adopt it as the truth" philosophy. They will never let up on their tactics to redefine everything to their benefit because history has demonstrated that the tactics, left unchecked, work.
43 posted on 01/27/2013 6:04:42 AM PST by trebb (Allies no longer trust us. Enemies no longer fear us.)
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To: driftdiver
President Barack Obama says gun-control advocates have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes in the debate over firearms in America.

Wouldn't be hard. Right now they don't do any listening.

In an interview with The New Republic, Obama says he has "a profound respect" for the tradition of hunting that dates back for generations.

Hooey! When you see the staged duck hunting thing and invocations of a hunting tradition, you know they're lying.

44 posted on 01/27/2013 6:12:20 AM PST by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means." --I. Montoya)
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To: driftdiver

He’s lying as usual. He’s never touched a gun in his life, and he’s just trying to sound reasonable in order to lull the stupid into believing gun control has validity. The best thing gun control advocates could do for the rest of us is to commit suicide so we don’t have to listen to the lies they tell, either.


45 posted on 01/27/2013 6:15:05 AM PST by GenXteacher (You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
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To: Terry Mross

I think he realises it, after all he is the Food Stamp President.

I think he wants to make the United States safe for his electorate by taking the guns away from those who failed to vote for him. It’s all part of the plan.


46 posted on 01/27/2013 6:16:16 AM PST by Venturer
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To: driftdiver

“Under my plan, another executive order, I will collect all weapons except govenment manufactured shotguns used for skeet shooting and maybe a bit of fowl hunting, as long as they are registered and stored at the armory in each state’s capital.

In addition, I will be providing a massive $1.75 trillion economic stimulus package solely devoted to making sure that all American neighborhoods have access to skeet shooting ranges. To build these, I will acquire vast areas of residential property by eminent domain, mostly in wealthy neighborhoods, since they can afford it.

To provide the guns, I hereby nationalize all gun and ammo factories. All employees will now receive triple salaries since they work for me now. These facilities will begin tomorrow to produce my new gun, the Volksgun, which I have nicknamed the Obamagun. Pretty clever, huh? They will all be black in memory of all the black youths who have been shot to death by white cops acting stupidly.

Today I am sending this EO to Congress to show them I don’t really need them and will gladly bypass any authority they think they have.

My package includes new training programs for current, and millions of new, union members on the construction technology needed to build these skeet ranges. Thousands of new training schools will be built for this purpose. In addition, I will hire millions of new Muslim Brotherhood immigrants and train them in the main union skill of standing around leaning against shovels. This will make them feel good about themselves and stop blowing us up.

All employees, of course, will receive triple UGW (Union of Gavernment Workers) salaries.

Oh! Did I forget to mention that all unions will be combined into the UGW and will no longer have to deal with local anti-union laws. Anyone who wants to work for me will automatically become a life member of my union. There will be no union dues since I will pay them to myself for them.

I am happy to help those clingers-to-guns continue the great American tradition of sport shooting. Maybe this will prevent them from killing all out children in schools with machine guns. Uh, sorry, no questions. Gotta golf! Later bros!”


47 posted on 01/27/2013 6:21:21 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

you are correct obammy is a “ f@%ing moron “.
You ever listen to him have a cogent thought without some teleprompter?
Without folks kissing his ass and wispering in his ear he is worthless


48 posted on 01/27/2013 6:33:58 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: driftdiver; All
As a HYPOTHETICAL exercise, it would be amusing to kidnap David Gregory (assuming you could find when him he's not protected by armed guards), take him to one of the "fun" areas of DC, handcuff him to a lamp post, hand him an AR 15 and a single 10 round magazine, yell something hostile to get the neighbors' attention, and drive off.

Then circle back in an hour to see how he fared, and whether his attitude had changed. Just as a hypothetical exercise.

49 posted on 01/27/2013 6:37:40 AM PST by Hardastarboard (The Liberal ruling class hates me. The feeling is mutual.)
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To: Shane
The Marxist’s continue to ignore the obvious, if gun control laws worked, Washington D.C. New York and Chicago would be the safest cities in our country.

The problem with your argument is that New York City IS one one of the safest big cities in the Country, if not the world, with a violent crime rate that is significantly lower than large "red-state" cities like Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Phoenix, Orlando, Jacksonville, Tampa-St. Petersburg, Norfolk, St. Louis, Tulsa, etc. I suspect that the low violent crime rate has less to do with gun control (the criminal element doesn't seem to have problem finding guns), but rather, the police crack-down on quality of life crimes and the unconstitutional "stop and frisk" policy that nabs bad guys before they are really bad.

50 posted on 01/27/2013 6:49:24 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: driftdiver

No Obama, we don’t have to listen to you. YOU have to listen to the Constitution.


51 posted on 01/27/2013 7:03:59 AM PST by struggle (http://killthegovernment.wordpress.com/)
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To: driftdiver

Once again, if Obama’s lips are moving, he is lying. He is merely playing good cop for a while. He has no intention of backing down. In fact, I believe he and his fellow commies propose far out things they know will never pass, then agree to “compromise”, so that people will accept what they really intended to pass in the first place. He is always on the offensive to take away our freedom, our rights, and our money; no matter what he says for public consumption.


52 posted on 01/27/2013 7:13:31 AM PST by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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To: driftdiver

He is setting up a bogus strawman.


53 posted on 01/27/2013 7:15:30 AM PST by BRL
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To: BCW

54 posted on 01/27/2013 7:29:23 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: driftdiver

You guys are not reading between the lines. The ONLY reason that he said what he had to say was because his side is GETTING CLOBBERED in Congress right now, and is in danger of losing everything.

He’s trying to come up with something that can pass...and he’s finding that it isn’t easy.


55 posted on 01/27/2013 7:50:49 AM PST by BobL
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To: Shane
if gun control laws worked, Washington D.C. New York and Chicago would be the safest cities in our country

Worth repeating.

56 posted on 01/27/2013 7:58:55 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Sometimes it takes calamity to lead to serenity - FReeper RacerX1128)
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To: SERKIT
There is no right to bear arms simply for hunting. We need to stop letting the left frame the argument based on false pretext.Skeet is not the intent of the 2nd Amendment.

Well said - thanks.

57 posted on 01/27/2013 7:59:10 AM PST by GOPJ ( Do murder laws control murders?..freeper Red Badger Let's try Criminal control - Fr:MadMax)
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To: Rapscallion
“I wonder if he knows the history of what communist/socialist tyrants have done to their people after they disarmed them...”

Of course Obama knows because he and Bill Ayers, who once was in favor of murdering 25 million Americans in concentration camps, are soul mates. Obama WANTS any excuse he can manufacture to murder Americans because that is who this vermin is: a murdering Marxist thug from Chicago by way of Hawaii, Indonesia, and Kenya.

58 posted on 01/27/2013 8:01:39 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: Pollster1

Washington liberal elites live in expensive communities with security and major police protection. When a Washington elite calls the police a cop will be at their home in less than 7 minutes.

A middle class traditional American living in a rural area is NOT going to have a cop on the door step in 7 minutes - and maybe not in 20... but then again, how would liberal elites know that... facts and truth never enter their closed little minds.


59 posted on 01/27/2013 8:08:11 AM PST by GOPJ ( Do murder laws control murders?..freeper Red Badger Let's try Criminal control - Fr:MadMax)
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To: BobL
The ONLY reason that he said what he had to say was because his side is GETTING CLOBBERED in Congress right now, and is in danger of losing everything.

Bingo! If these idiots had half a brain they would realize that more Americans are armed now then when they started blathering about gun control after Sandy Hook(wait for me, I'm your leader).

But I do not believe he is changing his tactic, he is just stalling for more time. The paranoid side of me says that these idiots are planning a staged event. I can see a "Rodney King" type event in the spirit of the Nazi Crystalnacht(sp). It will be something like "dozens of defenseless blacks killed by white gunmen with AR-15's". GUn control with the added racial thing. Of course, the idiots will probably bungle that like they did with Fast and Furious.

60 posted on 01/27/2013 8:20:02 AM PST by VRW Conspirator (Sometimes it takes calamity to lead to serenity - FReeper RacerX1128)
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