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Obama laments shooting as gun debate has gone cold
Associated Press ^ | Sep 16, 4:46 PM EDT | Nedra Pickler

Posted on 09/16/2013 2:03:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama on Monday wearily lamented “yet another mass shooting,” this time in the nation’s capital where the debate that raged earlier this year over tightening firearms laws has stalled amid opposition from gun-rights advocates.

The shooting at the Washington Navy Yard came a week after voters recalled two Colorado legislators who supported tougher gun measures, illustrating the strong political headwinds faced by lawmakers seeking to respond to the violence. …

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: aaronalexis; banglist; guncontrol; navyyard; obama; secondamendment; washingtonnavyyard
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AP delenda est. The POTUS spins this into more gun control and the AP helps him.
1 posted on 09/16/2013 2:03:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Yes, it was horribly lamentable; not one victim was armed.


2 posted on 09/16/2013 2:04:26 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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To: Olog-hai

After Colorado, I sincerely hope that Obama pushes his party to move on gun control again. He’s dumb enough.


3 posted on 09/16/2013 2:06:03 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: Jack Hammer

You would think the safest places to be would be a military base, but alas those trained to handle weapons are not trusted with them in their own house.


4 posted on 09/16/2013 2:06:39 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Jack Hammer

In Obama’s (The First undocumented Moslem Tyrant by Fraud)
America, only terrorists, savages, and KNOWN DHS-released
and DO”J”-protected murderers and rapists are allowed
weapons.

America is helpless, as the US Congress does/did NOTHING.


5 posted on 09/16/2013 2:06:56 PM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Olog-hai

If these guys turn out to be Moslems, can we ban them too?


6 posted on 09/16/2013 2:07:46 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Olog-hai

already inserting politics into it


7 posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:10 PM PDT by 4rcane
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To: Olog-hai; All
Navy shooting is a scripted distraction from THIS.


8 posted on 09/16/2013 2:09:15 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Jack Hammer

"If I had a son he would look just like Aaron Alexis."

Barack Obama

9 posted on 09/16/2013 2:13:35 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Olog-hai

This happened on what was supposedly a “secure” facility. More government run incompetence.


10 posted on 09/16/2013 2:14:26 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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Why do mass murderers mostly choose ‘gun-free’ zones?

You’d think that a criminal would at least obey a sign, sheese!

[leaving out the /sarc. Tag to reduce my carbon footprint]

11 posted on 09/16/2013 2:15:48 PM PDT by HammerT (The Obama Recession, you bone it you own it.)
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To: Jack Hammer
Why do mass murderers mostly choose ‘gun-free’ zones?

You’d think that a criminal would at least obey a sign, sheese!

[leaving out the /sarc. Tag to reduce my carbon footprint]

12 posted on 09/16/2013 2:15:55 PM PDT by HammerT (The Obama Recession, you bone it you own it.)
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To: KeyLargo

Wonder if he is a convert to the religion of peace. Er was.


13 posted on 09/16/2013 2:17:17 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: Olog-hai

What luck for the gun grabbers!


14 posted on 09/16/2013 2:17:42 PM PDT by HammerT (The Obama Recession, you bone it you own it.)
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To: cableguymn

Only a couple of days ago the Al Qaeda leader called for more homegrown attacks on the U.S.

News > World News

Al Qaeda Leader Calls for New Attacks on US
12:05PM Monday

September 16, 2013
Al Qaeda Leader Calls for New Attacks on US (Photo Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

(BEIRUT) — Al Qaeda failed to make good on threats to strike U.S. diplomatic outposts on this week’s 9/11 anniversary, but in a new audio tape, the leader of the besieged terror network renewed his plea to followers to strike at American interests — and to aim lower, if necessary, with individual acts of violence.

...
In the new Arabic-language tape, released Sept. 12 Zawahiri chortled over the “blessed” 2001 strikes that left thousands of Americans dead, as well as April’s Boston Marathon bombings that killed just three Americans, which he claimed was proof of a Muslim “uprising.”

“Keeping America in tension and anticipation only costs a few disparate attacks here and there,” Zawahiri explained during his 72-minute recording. “These disparate strikes can be done by one brother or a few of the brothers.”

http://www.630wpro.com/common/more.php?m=58&ts=1379221502&article=87F8138D1C6811E386DEFEFDADE6840A&mode=2


15 posted on 09/16/2013 2:23:25 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Resolute Conservative

Anyone not worthy of being around firearms shouldn’t be on a military base anyway, contractor or otherwise. But that would put a serious dent in ‘diversity’ and affect people like.. Well.. Like Aaron Alexis. Also, 0bama has flooded our military with people WHO HATE THE MILITARY and view it only as a source of income.


16 posted on 09/16/2013 2:25:10 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

Anyone not worthy of being around firearms shouldn’t be on the streets at all.


17 posted on 09/16/2013 2:26:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost

P.S. I had to work at an F/A-18 base once, and was proud to be there and proud to be among Marines. 0bama doesn’t exude an ounce of pride in America. He never defends her, either. He just bashes her and hires more bashers.


18 posted on 09/16/2013 2:29:07 PM PDT by GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
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To: Olog-hai

Obama said he will bring the perps to justice [if there is more than one].

But ... he also said that about Benghazi ...


19 posted on 09/16/2013 2:29:37 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Olog-hai

His name was A-A-Ron. He was “from” Texas. It’s obvious he would be a right wing gun owner. /s


20 posted on 09/16/2013 2:30:40 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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