Obama is well loved by the majority of people in the UK. As are the majority there for gun control as are some posters from the UK here posting on FR.
Obama Praises Australia’s Gun Confiscation
By Charles C. W. Cooke
June 10, 2014 5:44 PM
Speaking to users of the blogging platform Tumblr, President Obama today praised Australia’s confiscation of firearms. Obama said:
Couple of decades ago, Australia had a mass shooting, similar to Columbine or Newtown. And Australia just said, well, that’s it, we’re not doing, we’re not seeing that again, and basically imposed very severe, tough gun laws, and they haven’t had a mass shooting since.
Our levels of gun violence are off the charts. There’s no advanced, developed country that would put up with this.
In other words, the president of the United States just praised a government for forcefully removing all semi-automatic firearms (i.e. a remarkable number of the guns in America and the majority of those sold today) from its citizenry.
Let me be clear, as Obama likes to say: You simply cannot praise Australia’s gun-laws without praising the country’s mass confiscation program. That is Australia’s law. When the Left says that we should respond to shootings as Australia did, they don’t mean that we should institute background checks on private sales; they mean that they we should ban and confiscate guns. No amount of wooly words can change this. Again, one doesn’t bring up countries that have confiscated firearms as a shining example unless one wishes to push the conversation toward confiscation.
I am not aware any of the British freepers, myself included, are for gun control. Quite the opposite, we campaigned against kneejerk gun laws post-Dunblane.
Actually whilst a vocal minority of Brits made much noise for him in 2008, most Brits actually didn’t care at all.
In fact, there was a large backlash against the wall to wall media coverage the 2008 election got. And the OTT media coverage in the UK for American elections and politics in general.
Most Brits were actually bored by it all. And are even more so in 2014. Most Brits are bored rigid by their own politics, let alone America.
The myth that because of vocal support from the Guardian et al, that all Brits were agog at the election and loved Obama simply wasn’t true. In 2008, most Brits cared about Coronation St, the X Factor and Eastenders on the telly, and football.
And to many Brits, he has been rather useless as a President. Even his supporters here cottoned on early he ‘wasn’t much kop’ as we say here. Any UK fanclub he had here I think dissolved within a year-18m.