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Obama unveils $500 million gun violence package
mywar ^ | 1/16/13 | JULIE PACE and ERICA WERNER

Posted on 01/16/2013 2:18:26 PM PST by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) - Braced for a fight, President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled the most sweeping proposals for curbing gun violence in two decades, pressing a reluctant Congress to pass universal background checks and bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines like the ones used in the Newtown, Conn., school shooting.

A month after that horrific massacre, Obama also used his presidential powers to enact 23 measures that don't require the backing of lawmakers. The president's executive actions include ordering federal agencies to make more data available for background checks, appointing a director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and directing the Centers for Disease Control to research gun violence.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.myway.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gun; guncontrol; obama; obamagunpresser; obamagunspeech; package; secondamendment; violence
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Porky pork
1 posted on 01/16/2013 2:18:30 PM PST by Nachum
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A Leftwing campaign fund.


2 posted on 01/16/2013 2:19:40 PM PST by Gene Eric (Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
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To: Nachum
What about the MANPADs, Fast and Furious, and Hasan?

Are guns ONLY for terrorists???????????????

“Army Major (Hasan) Played Role in Presidential (Obama) Transition”


3 posted on 01/16/2013 2:20:19 PM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: Nachum

More union dues-paying, government employees.


4 posted on 01/16/2013 2:21:08 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (The only thing that Hollywood gets right about guns is that criminals will always get them.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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5 posted on 01/16/2013 2:21:25 PM PST by Nachum (Back on the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum

Stomping on the 2nd Amendment AND spending a half billion (minimum) that we don’t have? Brilliant!

(Do I really need a /sarc)


6 posted on 01/16/2013 2:21:49 PM PST by jdsteel (Give me freedom, not more government.)
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To: Nachum

We need to pas some laws to prevent more Wacos, Ruby Ridges, Ft. Hood or Fast and Furiouses.


7 posted on 01/16/2013 2:22:27 PM PST by Paladin2
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8 posted on 01/16/2013 2:22:30 PM PST by Nachum (Back on the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Gene Eric

Exactly. I thought he was going to use it mostly to crush any possibility of resistance in this country (because that’s what the Second Amendment is all about...it has nothing to do with hunting). But I see he’s just using it to collect funds.

So I guess it could have been worse.


9 posted on 01/16/2013 2:23:27 PM PST by livius
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To: Nachum

10 posted on 01/16/2013 2:24:30 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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To: Slyfox

Nothing like a little tragedy to drum up $500,000,000.
Is Congress forcing him into spending again?

Just think.. if congress would only handle the violence in our grade schools he wouldn’t have to spend that $500 million after all...

Tsk tsk tsk...


11 posted on 01/16/2013 2:28:58 PM PST by shineon
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To: Slyfox

Those pictures are perfect.

They show exactly what is going on.


12 posted on 01/16/2013 2:30:01 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Nachum

Why does everything this CS’er does cost half a billion dollars?


13 posted on 01/16/2013 2:30:19 PM PST by Venturer
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To: Nachum

The terms “assault weapon” and “assault rifle” are often confused. According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review:

“Prior to 1989, the term “assault weapon” did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of “assault rifles”... ”

Go here for rest of the story:
http://www.assaultweapon.info


14 posted on 01/16/2013 2:33:38 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Slyfox

Why did you post two pictures of Hitler?


15 posted on 01/16/2013 2:34:18 PM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: Nachum

The terms “assault weapon” and “assault rifle” are often confused. According to Bruce H. Kobayashi and Joseph E. Olson, writing in the Stanford Law and Policy Review:

“Prior to 1989, the term “assault weapon” did not exist in the lexicon of firearms. It is a political term, developed by anti-gun publicists to expand the category of “assault rifles”... ”

Go here for rest of the story:
http://www.assaultweapon.info


16 posted on 01/16/2013 2:35:18 PM PST by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Nachum

So where does the money come from? The USA is broke.


17 posted on 01/16/2013 2:36:40 PM PST by From The Deer Stand
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To: Nachum

Interesting he went for $$$, and votes for the party. Has to mean he couldn’t do much, as well it’s all spelled out in ObamaCare anyway, and he probably would like to keep that quiet as long as he can until implemented fully.

I don’t think people realize enough how much we need to be rid of ObamaCare. I think that alone is the diversionary target. They are trying to keep the lid on the details until we are stuck with it.


18 posted on 01/16/2013 2:53:11 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Nachum
A Czar now for the ATF? LOL

How about de-funding the Executive Branch, to stop the expansion of Da Fuhrer?????

19 posted on 01/16/2013 3:00:57 PM PST by traditional1 (Amerika.....Providing public housing for the Mulatto Messiah)
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To: Nachum

Never let a crisis go to waste when it can be used to loot the treasury.

Who will bell the cat?


20 posted on 01/16/2013 3:04:39 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 .....The fairest Deduction to be reduced is the Standard Deduction)
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