Posted on 12/14/2013 10:25:11 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama marked the anniversary of the Newtown school shootings on Saturday by calling for tighter gun control and expanded mental healthcare, and by lighting 26 candles to commemorate the victims.
"We haven't yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer," the president said in his weekly address. "We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily. We have to do more to heal troubled minds."
Obama did not mention the shooting at a Colorado high school on Friday where a student armed with a shotgun wounded at least two classmates before apparently taking his own life. The president's weekly remarks are recorded in advance.
At the White House, the president and Michelle Obama lit one candle for each of the 20 children and six school workers who died at a Connecticut elementary school a year ago, then stood and faced the candles with hands clasped in front of them. The ceremony unfolded in silence.
Despite a concerted push by the president and Vice President Joe Biden to tighten gun laws, legislation that would have stiffened background checks for gun sales and banned rapid-firing "assault" weapons died in Congress in the face of the powerful gun lobby....
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
P2 issues a call for Government Control.
Gosh, THAT was unexpected...
did you see the white house tweet of him and michelle lighting candles for Sandy Hook?
D1 supports mouth control.
Barry’s mouth. I wish he’d get it under control.
Obama needs guns gone so he can stay on after 2016
Please stop using victims of gun violence for political gain!
People will simply just hide theirs.
Save your breath. Obama is a terrorist.
They lit candles, so they must care.
LOL at their silly theatrics.
Yawwwwwnnnnnnn.....
“We haven’t yet done enough to make our communities and our country safer”
Excepting of course if you happen to be an elderly citizen burdening the health care system.
FUBO!
“The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people.
As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children,
the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.”
– Adolf Hitler [ Mein Kampf, Publ. Houghton Miflin, 1943, Page 403]
Nahhh — the electricity just went out at the White Hut.
We have to do more to keep dangerous people from getting their hands on a gun so easily.
They're far less dangerous than communists masquerading as U.S. presidents.
How cute. Cookie monster from Kenya saying little girls cannot have weapons because cookie monster from Kenya so good.
Democrats never see a grave that they don’t want to dance on, or a coffin that they didn’t want to stand on
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