Posted on 06/10/2014 4:18:39 PM PDT by servo1969
resident Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.
“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.
“We can have respect for the Second Amendment and responsible hunters and sportsmen can have possess weapons,” Obama told an audience of students during a broadcast on the Tumblr website.
But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt.
Australia also instituted a gun buy-back program and a national registery and licensing system in the wake of the April 1996 mass shooting.
Obama’s statement is likely to cause heartburn for Democratic candidates in Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and other states where gun rights are valued.
But it may also spur turnout among young Democratic voters, who are demoralized by the lousy Obama economy.
Obama’s comments on guns came after the host asked him about the recent shootings, and Obama replied with an unusually emotional pitch.
“My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.
“We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens. … Our level of gun violence is off the charts. There’s no advanced developing country on Earth that would put up with this,” he said.
Obama dismissed the argument that shootings are not the fault of the mental health of Americans. ”The U.S. does not have a monopoly on crazy people, it’s not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else,” Obama said.
Obama did refer to the Second Amendment, but didn’t describe the limits that it imposes on government. “We have a Second Amendment, we have historically respected gun rights, I respect gun rights, but the idea that we could not get a background check [into law] … makes no sense,” he complained.
“I’ve been in Washington, and most things don’t surprise me, [but] the fact that 20 six-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town could not do anything about it, was stunning to me,” he said about the Newtown shooting in December 2012.
“If public opinion does not demand a change in Congress, it will not change,” he said.
I am glad that Obama totally glosses over the fact that the vast majority of people that go on these shooting sprees have mental issues so severe that most people around them are aware of these issues.
“Our level of gun violence is off the charts”
Not when you subtract ‘gun violence’ committed by blacks.
what he proposes for such small incidents is hardly common sense.
Releasing all kinds of criminal prisoners is fine with this gang but they don’t want us to be able to defend ourselves.
A point indirectly made by CBS News tonight as well.
gun deaths have gone down the last 25 years and there are far more guns out there now than 25 years ago.
total bs - the goal is disarming citizens. agenda 21 and state dept pub 7277: freedom from war documents show what’s going on behind this.
I suggest we need a ban on liberal/fascist/socialist policies as well as soft on crime judges.
But for people who only care about body counts, all the muggings, rapes, home-invasions and carjackings that happen to deliberately defenseless citizens is of no consequence.
I was listening to “Redeye Radio” last night and if I heard the host(s) correctly, about 90% of all firearm homicides in the US are gang related.
Our level of gun violence is off the charts
Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Aftanistan....
So Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country yet they have the most “gun violence”. What’s up with that?
I don’t dare criticize hussein because dat would be raciss.
may they all die a slow death from rectal cancer... 
Look, he and his cronies have declared war on the Constitution and the people. We’ve known that for years. Just because he or Di Fi or Nancy frozen face occasionally go a whole week without threatening to storm our homes doesn’t mean they have stopped wanting (or planning) to do it.
These people are like Jason, you can’t defeat them for good (the nature of evil, and they most certainly are that). They just keep coming back, waiting for you to either get too tired, too discouraged or too complacent. It is an eternal war, and sadly, they *never* quit.
Out of the mouth of the same ahole that is supplying full auto and semi-auto firearms to islamic terrorists and mexican drug cartels.
Next, govt censor the Media because a youtube video? Or govt bans Christians cause a handful of ministers commits crimes?
Funny Obama doesn’t end the VA & obamacare cause they hurt thousands.
Ya know...
Every time a new thread referencing some politician pile of used food talks about restricting our second amendment right pops up here on FR...
I join another pro 2A group.
JPFO, HERE I COME!!
(I’m gonna run out of groups and might have to start one of my own)
Bbut, we can’t judge all mozlums by the acts of a few right?
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