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Obama admits US gun laws are his 'biggest frustration'
BBC News ^ | 24 July 2015

Posted on 07/23/2015 10:54:58 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

President Barack Obama has admitted that his failure to pass "common sense gun safety laws" in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency.

In an interview with the BBC, Mr Obama said it was "distressing" not to have made progress on the issue "even in the face of repeated mass killings".

He vowed to keep trying, but the BBC's North America editor Jon Sopel said the president did not sound very confident.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; defundnpr; defundpbs; secondamendment
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To: Southack

“Frustration” in the title is a curious word choice. It has two related definitions. The emotional state at not being able to do something as often observed in children, and the more sinister defintion of an impedement that prevents one from completing a plan or task. Here it should be taken as the second meaning, e.g. something that is preventing Zero from completing his grand design (a marxist police state/dictatorship).


21 posted on 07/24/2015 12:04:28 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: MinorityRepublican
Mr Obama said it was "distressing" not to have made progress on the issue "even in the face of repeated mass killings".

It's in the face of repeated mass killings by statists that we see the Second Amendment as a life-or-death issue.

22 posted on 07/24/2015 12:04:33 AM PDT by InMemoriam (Scrape the bottom! Vote for Rodham!)
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To: INVAR

He’s the Prefident!

“Prefident
Pref´i`dent
a. 1. Trusting beforehand; hence, overconfident.


23 posted on 07/24/2015 12:04:52 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra (Don't touch that thing Don't let anybody touch that thing!I'm a Doctor and I won't touch that thing!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wish every frustration on this “man”.


24 posted on 07/24/2015 12:17:13 AM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: LeoWindhorse
please that he stay in Kenya

Kenya doesn't want him.

25 posted on 07/24/2015 12:35:09 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Hmmm, so much more frustrating than Iran sending over a nuclear bomb to take out the whole East Coast?

I guess it’s not frustrating if it’s all gone. What, me worry?


26 posted on 07/24/2015 12:43:27 AM PDT by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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To: Gator113
I has occurred to me why Obama doesn’t understand our Constitution....it’s written in cursive.

Zero understands the Constitution just fine. The problem is, he doesn't like it.

27 posted on 07/24/2015 12:58:54 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody

My comment was a backhanded joke, I know he understands our constitution, he reads it the was he would want it to read.


28 posted on 07/24/2015 1:19:32 AM PDT by Gator113 (~~Cruz, OR LOSE~~ Ted Cruz REMAINS the only true Conservative in this race. ~~ just livin' life~~)
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To: MinorityRepublican

It seems to me that mass murder by use of guns has increased since he’s been in office. It makes me wonder who and how the government is paying to do it.


29 posted on 07/24/2015 3:21:30 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: MinorityRepublican

This turd makes my blood boil.Maybe they will eat him for dinner in Kenya.


30 posted on 07/24/2015 3:56:52 AM PDT by Renegade
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To: MinorityRepublican

Every dictators biggest frustration.


31 posted on 07/24/2015 4:26:00 AM PDT by Old Yeller (Civil rights are for civilized people.)
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To: cynwoody

He is a reader, not a thinker. He cannot comprehend written documents, hence his ignorant stance on the bill of rights.

His beady brown eyes see the words which are automatically transmitted through his hideous blue lips and gums off that lavender tongue.

The brain is not connected. He is a freak.


32 posted on 07/24/2015 4:26:32 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nobama, I am just doing my part. So sorry it frustrates you.


33 posted on 07/24/2015 4:31:36 AM PDT by Tzfat
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To: Tennessee Conservative

Interesting. Violent crime had been trending down since the mid 1990s - in spite of the impression people get from the media hype. I wonder if lone gunman mass shootings (as a subgroup ) are trending up under bammy’s watch? Have to check into that.


34 posted on 07/24/2015 4:42:04 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

An armed citizenry is frustrating to would-be dictators.


35 posted on 07/24/2015 5:06:12 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yet, on a nearly daily basis, the lib-progs post Facebook memes about how Obama hasn’t seized anybody’s firearms. When you try to inject some reality like this article or the info from a little over a month ago about his puppetmaster Jarrett saying essentially the same thing about being frustrated on this goal. The sycophant level continues to rise and “1984” is looking more prescient all the time.


36 posted on 07/24/2015 5:22:33 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

I wish somebody would seriously investigate the trend since Obama has been in office. The mass murders seem to have increased a lot. The media is hell-bent on reporting it over and over. It’s scare tactics. Gun control has been on the liberal left’s agenda and they have been pounding it hard. What better way to ‘prove’ that we need gun control or gun confiscation than to have the mass murder rate go up? Obama doesn’t care about people killed by guns. He wants the majority to be disarmed. His is the government our forefathers warned us about. Everyday liberals are just stupid and don’t see, or don’t care, how dangerous he is.

We’ve all seen the way Hitler and other dictators took over. The first thing they did was take away the means for people to protect themselves from the government by convincing people that they would be safer without guns and that the government would protect them.

The left is trying to prove that regular citizens can’t be trusted with guns and that guns owned privately are the guns that are being used by criminals. They think that by ridding citizens of guns that criminals won’t be able to get them. THAT is how they will justify confiscation. Of course, they can’t get what they don’t know you have.


37 posted on 07/24/2015 6:41:47 AM PDT by Tennessee Conservative
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe the Dear Leader could lead by example and make the White House a gun-free zone.


38 posted on 07/24/2015 6:44:53 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
That's just the frustrations he's talked about publicly -- he hasn't been frustrated by other things, such as his "common sense" crushing of dissent and the Constitution using illegal activities by the IRS, the DoJ, the INS et al, his former and his current Sec'ys of State...

39 posted on 07/24/2015 10:24:37 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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