Posted on 05/03/2013 10:49:52 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Michelle Obama: Gun violence has children fearing death every day By Justin Sink - 05/03/13 12:56 PM ET
First lady Michelle Obama said that students at a high school just five miles from her family's Chicago home told her that “every day they wake up and wonder whether they’re going to make it out of school alive.”
In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning" that will air this weekend, the first lady said that when she met students after delivering a speech last month on gun violence, she was struck by the extent to which fear dominated the children's everyday lives.
“I mean, every single kid worries about their own death, or the death of someone, every single day,” Obama said.
The first lady traveled to her hometown to advocate for new gun controls ahead of the Senate's vote last month on a bill that would expand background checks on gun purchases. The vote fell five senators short of the 60 needed.
In the interview with CBS, Obama said that lawmakers have an "obligation to these kids" to try again.
“We have millions of kids living in these kinds of circumstances who are doing everything right,” Obama said. “And we, as a nation, have to embrace these kids and let them know that we hear them, and see them. One kid told me he felt like he lived in a cage, because he feels like his community is unseen, unheard and nobody cares about it."
Speaking in Mexico on Friday, President Obama said gun control would save lives on both sides of the border.
“Most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” Obama said. “I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms. And as president, I swore an oath to uphold that right, and I always will.”
“At the same time," Obama continued, "as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do.”
Is that what they say to their single parent? Or do they share it with a case worker?
More abortions would fix this...
Moochelles ridiculous school menus have children facing death every day, the Obama administrations refusal to secure our borders and acknowledge the threat from Islam have our children facing death every day. You tell me which is the greater danger?
Most of America doesn't understand it a bit.
No. No, thanks. Don't bother explaining it to us, please. Thanks anyway.
There's a shrewd lad.
POP QUIZ:
Question 1: What major US city in the state of Illinois has among the strictest gun control laws in the entire country?
Question 2: What major US city in the state of Illinois with the strictest gun control in the USA has among the highest gun-related murders in the entire world?
"Class dismissed."
Is that the idea?
It’s the gangland neighborhoods (created and nourished by corrupt idiot Democrats) that they have to go to school in.
I no, let’s make ALL of Chicago and it’s suburbs “Gun Free Zones”
Wait, I think they are already that.
Maybe they need better community organizers ?
Clearly the targets of gun violence in Chicago are the result of misdirected frustration with a system that has failed to provide them with the proper education which would establish social justice.
Obama organized these neighborhoods.
Fiscal violence has me fearing death every day.
Did she say black children fear other blacks will kill them? It isn’t the little white kids dying every day.
Did she say black children fear other blacks will kill them? It isn’t the little white kids dying every day.
Gottcha by 22 seconds.
Who knew wookies could speak? I guess the turd in the whitehouse trained it to say that.
I would be scared of dying too if I had a crack-head mother and the best I can say about my father is that he might be one of half-dozen men who regularly stop by to visit my mother for a booty call.
That says more about Chicago than it does about guns.
The Chicago Democrat machine has conveniently disarmed the civilian population in Chicago. Of course their children live in fear. Nothing but criminals on the streets anymore.
My child fears POTUS FLOTUS and TOTUS
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