Posted on 12/07/2015 5:26:39 AM PST by lowbridge
In a rare Oval Office address, President Obama issued a necessary call to action to the nation to snap out of its gun-rights stupor - while vowing to redouble the U.S. war on the death-cult jihadists of ISIS.
Outrageously, his first objective is certain to run into a cement wall in a Congress controlled by a Republican majority that runs errands for the National Rifle Association. And the second strains credibility given his own halting campaign to destroy the terrorist proto-state and those motivated by its radical Islamist ideology.
In the days since the attack in San Bernardino, many have sought to glibly classify the mass murder as either an act of terrorism or as a gun crime.
It was both. Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik were inspired by anti-American ISIS, but they never could have murdered 14 innocents in a manner of minutes had they not be able to arm themselves with the all-American weapons and ammo they obtained thanks to lax gun laws.
Guns and jihadist terrorism go hand in hand, in this case literally.
Yet against all evidence, the true believers in the gun-rights lobby refuse even checking weapons purchasers against the FBI's terrorist watch list.
(Excerpt) Read more at nydailynews.com ...
Weak or complicit; you make the call.
You omitted the potentially most deadly stealth weapon of all. Requires NO background checking at point of sale, whether from dealers or private sale. It is readily available to any seeker, in a very wide variety of appearences. Further, it is absolutely LEGAL to possess.
The potential weapon I think of is called an AUTOMOBILE.
Heaven forbid...just think what a determined person could do on a crowded sidewalk in any city. Scary, isn’t it.
Question...Would the “gun grb\abers” then blame the DRIVER or the ASSAULT AUTOMOBILE?
I mind.
Because countless people with common names like Jack Smith, Alexandra Hayes, David Nelson, etc. are on these so-called watch lists, and so are the hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people who share these common names. They still fly, but have to go through endless intrusive and time-consuming hassles at the airport, and sometimes miss connecting flights.
The government can add names and there is no re-course to getting your name removed from these lists.
We should object, lest every member of the NRA and every TEA Party man or woman ends up on these so-called terror lists.
right mind objects to anyone on the “terror
watch list†having their guns grabbed or being prevented
from buying more?
Actually in NY, North of Westchester County it is not hard to get a pistol permit at all.
Of course, North of Westchester you are in a totally different state, as well.
“We should object, lest every member of the NRA and every TEA Party man or woman ends up on these so-called terror lists.”
Exactly right!
If you have to get the government's permission to do something (ie. get a permit), then that something is not a right. It is a privilege, and privileges can be taken away at any time for any reason or no reason at all. I believe the Bill of Rights addresses God given rights not privileges granted by government. The NY mindset that you have to have a permit is indicative of just how far from free the citizens of NY are.
Here in GA I don't need a "pistol permit" at all. I just go to the store and buy one if I want one. (of course I have no guns - I don't even know what one looks like :-)
Oh my - their sick minds never can see that the bad guys will break any laws out there and that the victims were all following the laws because not one of them was carrying in a restricted place...
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I object to anyone on the terror “watch list” being arbitrarily denied their rights because it’s run by idiots and there is no due process involved. I’d sooner see just being a follower of islam as the defining rights denial benchmark because the manual instructs the devout to kill and subjugate and is incompatible with the Constitution and Republic.
Pro-terrorist speeches he gives many
How odd. They didn’t even put a name to this pile of bull screed.
Nothing left to add, save that they are also beavering away at "building socialism" as if it were 1938 and we were all living in the co-op apartment buildings run by nize Jewish Communists in the good old days in Manhattan, when people could still afford to live there.
Don't laugh too hard .... gun-grabbing socialists have another pet peeve: Your car.
Urban planners and other high-hat Bauhaus socialists despise, even hate, cars and the freedom of movement that they afford us. Freedom not to live stacked on top of one another in totalitarian worker-storage arrangements (invented by protocapitalists in another age, but never mind), freedom to come and go as we please.
Gotta hate that other guy's freedom ... that's the essence of socialism and big-city politics.
Obama selling more guns.
That's why I keep suggesting that New York be divided at the Croton River and the centerline of Hudson Canyon, and downstate be separated from New York, and both downstate New York and New England be expelled from the Union. It's just "common sense".
We'd get rid of about 30-40 million Democrat/Communists with one move. The "real" United States begins on the New Jersey Palisades.
We'd keep Bedloe and Ellis and Staten Islands; the other guys could keep Riker's. Which is also just "common sense".
One thing to rememer, though. I grew up in a “mill town” that featured many 4 and 5 story textile factories. Naturally there was “worker housing” close by. However, it must be remembered that those sprawling factories were built BEFORE the coming of the automobile, and workers had to live within WALKING distance of their jobs. Neither were there buses and horse-drawn transport was totaly inadequate to the task.
The advent of the auto is what gave us the ability to drive to work a half hour away, rather than be confined to a job a half hour WALK.
***President Obama issued a necessary call to action to the nation to snap out of its gun-rights stupor***
STUPOR? We were in a stupor back in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy was murdered five years after John Kennedy was murdered. We were blindsided, and the 1968 Gun Control Act (a rewriting of the 1938 Nazi weapons act) was passed before opposition could really be mounted against it!
At that time the NRA had NO lobbying arm and just a few hundred thousand members.
No sooner was the “gun” problem “solved” than the anti gunners began to call for stiffer regulations. The anti-gun cry has never let up.
Since those days we have been fed a constant barrage of anti-gun propaganda, with a new “demon gun” which has not phased us at all, only strengthened our resolve to oppose any and all anti-gun laws.
I guess I’m not on the same wave length as many. I’m
getting older by the day and have flown all I intend to
fly in this realm. - Gun ownership to us here in this
locale isn’t talked much about. When you inherit old
blunderbusses from the Revolution and old Smith &
Wessons from over a hundred years ago; you are on a
different wavelength than Hussein & his fellow travelers.
You learn to make your own bullets in bullet molds &
learn marksmanship at your granddaddy’s knee. It is a
different world here. When your dad fought the Nazi’s
and came home shell shocked all to hell; you live in
a different reality than many. - For one thing; you are
flummoxed at how in the world this country could ever
elect a stinking Communist as President.
This morning I posted a comment on the article, a well reasoned rebuttal I think, to their editorial. I pointed out that the attack wasnt because of “lax gun laws”, but in spite of them. How california had among the most restrictive gun laws in the country, not lax ones. And how forbidding gun sales to those who were on the terrorist watch list wouldnt have prevented san bernardino because the two terrorists werent on the list (but 72-73 TSA employees are).
My comment was deleted.
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