Posted on 06/10/2014 4:18:39 PM PDT by servo1969
resident Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.
“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.
“We can have respect for the Second Amendment and responsible hunters and sportsmen can have possess weapons,” Obama told an audience of students during a broadcast on the Tumblr website.
But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt.
Australia also instituted a gun buy-back program and a national registery and licensing system in the wake of the April 1996 mass shooting.
Obama’s statement is likely to cause heartburn for Democratic candidates in Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and other states where gun rights are valued.
But it may also spur turnout among young Democratic voters, who are demoralized by the lousy Obama economy.
Obama’s comments on guns came after the host asked him about the recent shootings, and Obama replied with an unusually emotional pitch.
“My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.
“We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens. … Our level of gun violence is off the charts. There’s no advanced developing country on Earth that would put up with this,” he said.
Obama dismissed the argument that shootings are not the fault of the mental health of Americans. ”The U.S. does not have a monopoly on crazy people, it’s not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else,” Obama said.
Obama did refer to the Second Amendment, but didn’t describe the limits that it imposes on government. “We have a Second Amendment, we have historically respected gun rights, I respect gun rights, but the idea that we could not get a background check [into law] … makes no sense,” he complained.
“I’ve been in Washington, and most things don’t surprise me, [but] the fact that 20 six-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town could not do anything about it, was stunning to me,” he said about the Newtown shooting in December 2012.
“If public opinion does not demand a change in Congress, it will not change,” he said.
What we really need is a ban on commies in this country. That would be a damn great start.
Oh great just as I could start finding some ammo again and prices were coming down a bit.
Lying piece of shit.
FUBO.
I gotta say that I love that picture.LOL
Keep in mind that this is all part of a formal plan to let vulnerable Democrats distance themselves from Obama.
They call him out as too extreme and appear reasonable instead.
He’ll try an executive order after one of these. Why not? No one opposes him.
Eliminate Chicago and Detroit and we would have the lowest murder rate in the world...
Obummer, You`re a frickin liar, you POS SOB
“We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens. … Our level of gun violence is off the charts. There’s no advanced developing country on Earth that would put up with this,” he said.
YOU LIE COZ
The Philippines has a smaller population than the USA, has much stricter gun control laws but yet has a higher per capita murder rate than the USA.
Episode 9 of AMC’s “Turn”. (Against thy neighbor)
As the British pressure on the loyalist Town of Setauket Long Island mounts, someone decides to fight back and attempts to poison Major Hewlett and Judge Woodhall is shot.
This leads Major Hewlett to order all firearms turned in to the garrison. Next, citizens are dragged from their homes and arrested by British soldiers in the middle of the night. The episode ends with a scene showing the gallows being erected over Setauket.
http://www.amctv.com/full-episodes/turn/3603504145001/against-thy-neighbor
It is only an order away. Obama is less and less concerned about the law
What’s the number of NICS background checks since 1990 (or whenever they were put in place)? I’m guessing it’s something like 180 million guns purchased legally during that time. And violent crime is down something like 50% per year since 1991. And that includes the invasion by 10 million+ illegal aliens to boot.
So I guess the use of guns for home defense would not be part of the picture?
prolly grow up to be a real hooligan... and might even help stop the muslime hoard from destroying England in the process
“Our level of gun violence is off the charts.”
Subtract the violence done by one particular segment of society, and we’d be one of the most peaceful nations on the planet.
I don't know about anyone else but I can't even afford the licensing fees just to purchas a pre '86 automatic weapon.
Assuming I could, there is no way in hell could I ever afford to buy one.......If you can find one on the internet, check out the selling price for a good condition M-16........
Thanks to the noise of the gun control kooks, U.S. soil will contain an even larger stash of weapons and ammunition—maybe enough to last the whole populace a thousand years.
I had heard that if “gang” killings are omitted America’s level of gun violence is equal to that of Switzerland.
I’d suggest looking on either John Lott’s website, or Gun Facts.
http://johnrlott.blogspot.com/ (There’s good links on the right of this page)
In exchange I suggest we need a ban on obama the Kenyan.
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