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Obama: 'I have not backed off' on assault weapons ban
The Hill ^ | April 16 | Sam Youngman

Posted on 04/17/2009 6:53:50 AM PDT by PghBaldy

Obama, joined by Mexican President Felipe Calderon at a press conference in Mexico City, said he and Calderon discussed the ban "extensively" during their meeting earlier in the day.

Mexican officials have said in recent days that they would like to see the ban reinstated, noting that more than 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico come from the U.S.

The White House was quick to blunt comments Attorney General Eric Holder made earlier this year supportive of pursuing a reinstatement, but Obama said Thursday that he has not changed his position.

"I have not backed off at all from my belief that the assault weapons ban makes sense," Obama said, adding that he is not "under any illusions that reinstating that ban would be easy.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; Mexico
KEYWORDS: agenda; awb; banglist; bho2009; bho44; bhofascism; bhotreason; bhotyranny; cwii; cwiiping; democratcongress; democrats; donttreadonme; fubo; lping; mexico; molonelabe; molonlabe; mythof90percent; obama; shallnotbeinfringed; treason; tyranny
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To: snowsislander

Thanks for that link I had no idea they had that offer. Just sent it around to all my buddies who were too cheap to join in the past, now there is no excuse.


21 posted on 04/17/2009 7:15:04 AM PDT by voteNRA (A citizenry armed with rifles simply can not be tyrannized)
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To: PghBaldy

You want the solve the WHOLE problem??......

Step one: Declare Texas Independence

Step two: Declare Martial Law in border counties and post the TDF Texas Defense Force (Texas National Guard) to the border to repel all illegal immigrants.

Step three: begin to round up and repatriate all illegal immigrants from Mexico. (no groaning please - and yes it can be done)

Step four: if you don’t like the steps then take I-10 west to California, I-30 East to New York or I-35 North to Wiscinsin, etc... and don’t let the door knob hit you in the A$$ on the way out. You will fin the political climate in those garden spots more to you liking.


22 posted on 04/17/2009 7:16:08 AM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: bmwcyle

Good post. We’ve got Old Glory flying of course, but I really need to get me a Gadsden flag.


23 posted on 04/17/2009 7:17:32 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: PghBaldy
Sorry PghBaldy..... Meant to post to “ALL TEXAS LIBS”
24 posted on 04/17/2009 7:18:51 AM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: Huck

The time is now. Fly it everyday. It tells Janet and Barry, “Kiss my butt”.


25 posted on 04/17/2009 7:21:11 AM PDT by bmwcyle (American voters can fix this world if they would just wake up.)
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To: PghBaldy
"Mexican officials have said in recent days that they would like to see the ban reinstated, noting that more than 90 percent of guns recovered in Mexico come from the U.S.

F'ing liars. But don't expect this "big lie" to EVER be corrected by Obama's willing accomplices in the MSM.


26 posted on 04/17/2009 7:21:26 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" is at the printer)
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To: Joe Brower
He will try to sneak this through as part of a treaty, thereby doing an end run around the 2nd Amd.

That would be our Fort Sumter moment, I think.

Any Senators who vote for that treaty are TRAITORS and should keep in mind what happens to TRAITORS.


27 posted on 04/17/2009 7:24:14 AM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" is at the printer)
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To: PghBaldy
I caught part of his speech on the news. He apologized to the Mexican people for the American guns causing their crime and promised to do something about it.

Hey ZERO, how about keeping the illegals from coming in and transporting those evil guns back to Mexico?

28 posted on 04/17/2009 7:25:17 AM PDT by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: PghBaldy
Obama said, adding that he is not "under any illusions that reinstating that ban would be easy....

However, he will use his minions and the MSM to villify and marginalize gun owners as rightwing extremists and after a long campaign of this, it will be easier to reinstate the AWB. In the meantime, he will promote policies that will make it more and more difficult to own guns.

29 posted on 04/17/2009 7:28:57 AM PDT by umgud (I'm really happy I wasn't aborted)
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To: PghBaldy

Typical Obama speaking with forked tongue. He says something different everywhere he goes.

He can never be trusted.


30 posted on 04/17/2009 7:31:21 AM PDT by dforest
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To: G Larry

There is NO SUCH THING as an “assault weapon”. If someone is whacked with a stick or a rock that was picked up off the ground, did the stick assault you or the person weilding it? A weapon cannot assault you, only other people can.


31 posted on 04/17/2009 7:31:42 AM PDT by RasterMaster (DUmocrats - the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism & surrender)
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To: Travis McGee

Good idea!

Any new ban ( or worse - confiscation order) triggers immediate Texas Secession.....

Any other red state wants to come.... Lest go.

CA,WI,VT,NY.... .TOUGH! You made your bed . Now sleep in it!


32 posted on 04/17/2009 7:32:15 AM PDT by NeverForgetBataan
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To: wolfcreek

Here is a direct quote from a newly posted (finally) transcript of Obama’s press conference in Mexico yesterday.Yes, he certainly has overwhelming respect for the 2nd Amendment, all right. Coming soon...

“The last point I would make is that there are going to be some opportunities where I think we can build some strong consensus. I’ll give you one example, and that is the issue of gun tracing. The tracing of bullets and ballistics and gun information that have been used in major crimes — that’s information that we are still not giving to law enforcement, as a consequence of provisions that have been blocked in the United States Congress, and those are the areas where I think that we can make some significant progress early.

That doesn’t mean that we’re steering away from the issue of the assault guns ban, but it does mean that we want to act with urgency, promptly, now. And I think we can make significant progress.”


33 posted on 04/17/2009 7:32:23 AM PDT by mynameisjohngalt
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To: mynameisjohngalt

Out in the world telling everyone what they want to hear. Screw him!


34 posted on 04/17/2009 7:38:44 AM PDT by wolfcreek ("unnamed "right-wing extremist")
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To: Lee Heggy123
Now, what I really want to know is why do they put a worm in Mezcal?

That's easy. They tell him that if he'll climb into the bottle, he can get the **** out of Mexico and go to America!

35 posted on 04/17/2009 7:41:26 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.)
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To: PghBaldy

17% of those guns that Mexico allows the US to trace, and can be traced, trace back to the USA’s databases on guns that have come into the USA legally.

I guess that does not make a great sound bite, though, and does not further civil disarmament.

Why is Obama discussing disarming US citizens with a foreign leader? One whose official if unstated policy is to flood the US with his unwanted citizens, hoping that they’ll mail cash back home?


36 posted on 04/17/2009 7:42:08 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: PghBaldy
FUBO

37 posted on 04/17/2009 7:44:17 AM PDT by TSgt (Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
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To: wolfcreek

LOL!


38 posted on 04/17/2009 7:46:46 AM PDT by EdReform (The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed *NRA*JPFO*SAF*GOA*SAS*CCRKBA)
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To: G Larry

NPR and other MSM outlets keep referring to “automatic” weapons.


39 posted on 04/17/2009 7:52:22 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: EdReform; Abathar; Abcdefg; Abram; Abundy; akatel; albertp; AlexandriaDuke; Alexander Rubin; ...



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40 posted on 04/17/2009 7:52:56 AM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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