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Posted on 01/08/2016 12:53:16 PM PST by digger48
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Indiana is a gun state, and government leaders here are pushing back on President Obama's efforts to increase gun control.
The president wants to make an example of Indiana because gun laws in the Hoosier state are less strict than the gun laws in his home state of Illinois.
During the president's CNN town hall meeting on gun control Thursday he spotlighted the number of illegal guns in Chicago.
"The problem," he said, "is that about 30, 40 percent of those guns are coming from Indiana, from across the border, where there are much laxer laws."
The finger pointing is not new.
During an October speech to police chiefs in Chicago the president challenged those who say gun control in Illinois isn’t working.
"The problem with that argument, as the Chicago Police Department will tell you," he said at the time, "is that 60 percent of guns recovered come from out of state. You've just got to hop across the border."
Indiana Congressman Luke Messer went on CNN to make the case that the President is misguided.
"The fundamental disagreement here is that criminals don't care about gun control legislation," he said. "Those who will murder will murder irregardless of gun control legislation."
Earlier this week Indiana Governor Mike Pence indicated that he's not interested in new gun control measures.
"I believe now more than ever," said Mike Pence, "it's, it's important that we protect the right of law abiding citizens in this state to be able to defend themselves, their families and their neighbors."
But the President insists that illegal gun dealers continue to benefit.
"They go to a gun show in Indiana, where right now they don't have to do a background check," he said, "load up a van and open up that van and sell 'em to kids and gangs in Chicago."
There will be gun debates in the Indiana General Assembly this year. Eight bills related to gun control have been filed so far.
It's worth noting, however, that five of them are aimed at eliminating one or more of the existing gun control measures.
Lying sack of sh!t
I had to read the headline three times because it made no sense but then look at the moron who said it.
What a sick anti- American liar. And the only reason guns are “illegal” in Illinois is because there are still some unconstitutional (illegal!) laws attempting to infringe on our rights to keep and bear arms. Fake laws do not make good Americans into real criminals. GTH bho! ASAP!
Lord I can't go back there.
Yes...the first one who lies is wrong. Liberal standoff!
I wonder why no one brought up Operation Fast and Furious at that town hall, I just find it idiotic that this man can bring up gun control with that staining him, utter BS.
He’s right; which is why the crime rate in Indiana is so much higher than in Chicago - because of the ready availability of guns at gun shows in Indiana! OH! Wait a minute...
He must think we’re as stupid as he is.
So guns can move from place to place? Better close the border.
in his home state of Illinois country of Indonesia or Kenya, ( multiple choice ).
Lying is right because if that were actually the case, they would have already followed such a van and made a big showy arrest.
The fact of the matter is that the problem in Chicago isn't guns from Indiana, but the kind of people who live in Chicago.
He’s such an idiot. We do too have to do a back ground check. I’ve had several myself. Maybe we aught to build a fence and keep the crap from Illinois coming to our state and buying our guns.
Let me tell you something Bammie. There are Indian sovereign nations all over the place. They blew off the Supreme Court’s love affair with sexual deviants and refuse to recognize Homo to Homo/Lesbo to Lesbo “marriages”. The same thing is going to happen when you Nazis ban guns in the states. We’ll still be able to get guns either from the Indians or the Mexicans. America is starting to sound like a John Wayne movie. LOL! Dumbass politician clowns!
So let me get this straight: in Indiana, where guns are available, they apparently have a criminal shortage, and in Chicago, where they’re not, they apparently have a gun shortage. And the problem is in Indiana?
SAD TRUTHS AND OTHER REALITIES OF OBAMMY
ON CNN DAILY!!
His legacy is one of indifference and tyranny..
Those that back him are nothing more than bit players.
His latest revealings should bite him in the arse.
Most of the Obama kids caught in my neck of the cornfields in central IN are from Chicago and Detroit.
The kinds of ones Obama is releasing from their 20-30 year prison sentences for “drug crimes”, while ignoring they they also had multiple felonies in their records and were carrying illegal guns at the time.
Omoron always blames everybody else as usual. Nothing new here.
Nothing new here. Fast and Furious was an attempt to blame guns in Mexico on lax US gun laws. This is the same sort of thing: Blame Indiana for Chicago's problems.
Indiana be white
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