Posted on 07/08/2011 3:49:57 AM PDT by marktwain
Friday marks six months since the Tucson shooting which severely injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the White House is now hinting it's prepared to add its own voice to the gun control dialogue that tragedy reignited.
"As you know, the President directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common-sense measures that would improve Americans' safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Thursday.
"That process is well underway at the Department of Justice with stakeholders on all sides working through these complex issues. And we expect to have some more specific announcements in the near future."
Carney didn't say how soon those announcements would come, nor what they might entail.
Immediately after the incident, which left six people dead and suspect Jared Lee Loughner in a federal prison hospital, eyes turned to the White House and whether the president might weigh in on the brewing Second Amendment debate.
The answer came in the form of an Arizona Daily Star Op-Ed penned by the president himself and printed on March 13.
Without taking sides in the debate, the president illustrated the consequences of the failings of the country's gun control system.
"[O]ne clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun," he wrote of Loughner.
Mr. Obama laid out a centrist approach, appealing for common sense from both sides of the gun debate.
"Most gun-control advocates know that most gun owners are responsible citizens. Most gun owners know that the word 'commonsense' isn't a code word for 'confiscation,'" the president wrote.
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The DOJ and this administration are CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT for facilitating the flow of firearms into Mexico.
They have NO STANDING to craft restrictions on our rights while they break the law.
Exactly. This is one we are going to have to make sure we invoke.
“[O]ne clear and terrible fact remains. A man our Army rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to walk into a store and buy a gun,” he wrote of Loughner.”
Had Dupnik, yes the same dumb ass liberal Sheriff as is in the middle of the SWAT murder of the ex marine in Arizona hadn’t protected Loughner, covered for his insanity because his mother was a friend, and co city government employee Jared Loughner would have been on the books as unstable, and a criminal, thus never been able to purchase the weapon through the legitimate means he did.
Dupnik’s own irresponsibility is a major reason the shooting occured as it did. Yes Loughner could have acquired the weapon through illegitimate means, but as nuts as he is might not have done so.
Most gun-control advocates think people shouldn't have guns, period.
ANYONE with half a brain knows that the word "commonsense" coming out of Obama's mouth on ANY issue is a clear signal that what follows is a complete falsehood.
Just unbelievable.
Go for it, commies.
Gun control has always been such a winner for y’all at the polls.
The Demon-commie-RATS can’t control themselves. They will always overreach.
If they pass any gun control legislation, folks who would normally sit out an election of the lesser of two evils, will come out of the woodwork just to vote against the Demon-commie-RATS.
Go for it, Demons, go for it.
Criminally negligent? No, negligence is when you fail to take reasonable action.
What they’ve done is commit numerous crimes in America and other countries under the color of law. They need to be tried and upon conviction given the death penalty.
Who says Obama has any commonsense, I sure haven’t seen any evidence of it.
The DOJ has no credibility on this issue. F&F is going to bring Holder and his ilk down. And I hope it includes the President, Clinton, etc.
I guess if one lives in Mexico or Honduras and works for the drug cartels and marxists, then the US government will give you free firearms. The rest will have their guns confiscated.
If one has even the inkling they do not have enough hi cap magazines, better go get them right now because the run will begin at the hint the Kenyan and his minions are engaged on the firearms issue. Same for ARs and for any large volume of ammo want might need.
I cannot wait for these neomarxists to be gone from the political arena.
Obomba didn’t learn anything from his F&Fgate scrimmmage with gun control? Now he is going to double down on the whole country? Is he going to give us all illegal firearms ‘under the radar’ to prove some delusional objective?
Project Gunwalker = Gleiwitz incident = Reichstag fire
Gunwalker will have the same results, because Congress did not have the integrity or balls to bust the Clinton Crime Cartel, either.
No matter what Issa and Grassley do, even if it results in Obama and Holder’s impeachment, the votes are not there.
Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it.
No, that’s all wrong, it’s all changed now. The NRA has Harry Reid and the dems wrapped around their little pinkie finger - just ask them. /s
Quoting Obama: “Most gun owners know that the word ‘commonsense’ isn't a code word for ‘confiscation,”
Translation: This is just a step toward my ultimate goal of confiscation, but I’m trying to sucker punch your sense of logic with a falsehood that is 180 degrees out of phase with my true intentions.
Quoting the National Socialists some more:
If it does, perhaps a look at the president's op-ed issued the day before Carney's remarks will offer insight as to what kind. “The National Instant Criminal Background Check System is the filter that's supposed to stop the wrong people from getting their hands on a gun. Bipartisan legislation four years ago was supposed to strengthen this system, but it hasn't been properly implemented,” he noted.
[Isn’t it nice of them to telegraph their true intentions? But how do they define ‘stop the wrong people’?]
Translation: We can’t implement our ultimate goal of grabbing your guns without a couple of intermediate steps, namely having Feral Government oversight on every gun transfer. Therefore we’re going to pretend to protect your rights while we incrementally take them away.
Having governmental control of how you buy and sell private property will get you used to the idea of getting our permission in owning a gun and it will facilitate grabbing them later on after we rescind that permission (Registration).
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