Posted on 03/14/2011 6:44:24 PM PDT by La Lydia
.... “When I talk to lawmakers in D.C., they’re always polite,” says New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an outspoken gun-control advocate. “But they always say the same thing: ‘Well, guns are important, but I can’t really get into that now.’ ”
President Obama is no exception: He’s spent the two months since Tucson paying lip service to the issue. Shortly after the shooting, three of his heaviest hitters—David Plouffe, Robert Gibbs, and David Axelrod—began to drop hints about the president’s intentions. Axelrod said there’s “no doubt” Obama “will engage in… that debate.” Plouffe went further, noting his boss’s support for the assault-weapons ban and promising that “he’s going to address this.” Asked last week for an update, a senior White House official told Newsweek that advisers are still “exploring a variety of ways the president could” weigh in. It’s hard not to wonder whether Obama’s plan is to pacify liberal critics by continuing to mention some vague dream of addressing gun safety at some wispy future date—then to cross his fingers and hope they forget.
If you believe the conventional wisdom, this strategy makes a certain sense: Why distract the electorate with a wedge issue when the economy is shaky and the Middle East is blowing up? But what if the chattering class is wrong? What if Obama is missing a rare opportunity? As much as he might like to move on, the issue isn’t going away—nor should it...
Gun-safety advocates would argue that Obama has a moral duty to stanch the bleeding, and that may be true. But what’s particularly interesting right now isn’t the moral equation. It’s the practical one. Look beyond the hoary Washington logic, and it’s clear that the present moment may be peculiar enough, and the forces at work potent enough, to produce real movement on gun safety—provided Obama proceeds carefully. That means no outlawing specific guns. No relitigating the Second Amendment. And no frantic liberal overreach....
It’s counterintuitive, but the current political climate might favor gun control as well. ...
None shot in my well armed little town.
None shot in my well armed, concealed-carry little corner of the world, either. In fact, very little crime whatsoever. :)
Yep!
“Andrew Romano is a senior writer for Newsweek.”
We don’t need to know anything else.
When they come for your guns make sure to give them the ammunition first.
We don’t even lock our doors around here.
President Obama is no exception: He’s spent the two months since Tucson boogieing, playing golf, and eating ice cream...
2405 is minuscule compared to when they come to TRY to take our guns away. Ain’t gonna happen.
Clearly Bloomberg would prefer the statistic to be “2,405 Stabbed or Bludgeoned to Death Since Tuscon”. I’m not sure what leads to this predilection for stabbery and bludgeondom; but, to each his own I guess.
Yeah, and 2400 of them were probably deserving a bullet, either shot by cops in commission of a crime, shot by law abiding citizens defending their homes, gangbangers killing other gangbangers, and the suicides.....
Same here. But I'm so poor if someone thought they needed what I've got, I'd help them load it.
About half of them were suicides, so not really gun related since they would’ve done it another way, such as pills, closed garage with car running, hanging or jumping off a building.
You certainly can't tell what the position is until I got to that paragraph, and if it's longer, or depressing, I got no time for further crap.
The pro-gun group outspends the morons. Deal with it.
Why doesn't that argument work with criminal public employee thug unions? But I digress...
The only valid arguments are these : Have mass killings occured in states or communities that have deliberate open-carry laws?
Does the moron who writes this stuff think that lives may have been saved in mass murders of the past had more people had firearms as protection with them?
Reason intuitively says lives would definitely have been saved.
I don't EVER expect to read this headline in a right to carry environment "23 killed by crazed muslim sandmaggot or Christian Fundamentalist."
Watch out when he says, "Well, guns are REALLY, REALLY important."
That's when the shit will hit the fan.
Mayor Bedbug needs to stick to his day job.
2,405 Shot Dead Since Tucson
LOL Idiot!
Want to that bet most of them are in urban liberal cesspools controlled by democrat trash where gun ownership is illegal?
Let them self-flush in front of the duck blind of armed America.
LOL I got a whole garage full of crap they can have.
I'm waiting for Bloomberg to propose banning Buses and Casinos to stop the carnage.
Robert Atkins the diet guru, died because he slipped on a icy sidewalk and hit his head. If ice was illegal, it wouldn't have happened.
I wish it would.
The cesspool of the genepool could use some sanitizing.
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