Posted on 07/24/2015 7:53:08 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
One of President Barack Obama's greatest frustrations is his inability to pass stricter gun laws, he told the BBC Thursday just hours before a mass shooting in a Louisiana theater.
"If you ask me where is the one area where I feel that I have been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common sense, gun safety laws," Obama said. "Even in the face of repeated mass killings."
The comments are especially notable because later on Thursday, an unidentified gunman stood up in a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater during a showing of the new comedy "Trainwreck" and began firing into the crowd. He killed two people, injured nine and then killed himself, according to police.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Friday morning that Obama had been briefed on the shooting aboard Air Force One by his homeland security adviser, Lisa Monaco.
"The President directed his team to keep him updated on the investigation and on the status of those injured in the shooting," Earnest said. "The thoughts and prayers of everyone at the White House, including the President and First Lady, are with the community of Lafayette, Louisiana, especially the families of those who were killed."
Mass shootings and gun violence have punctuated Obama's presidency from the shooting of then-Rep. Gabby Giffords in 2011 to the mass shooting at an Aurora, Colorado in 2012.
One of the president's strongest pleas for gun control came in December 2012, after the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School which killed 20 schoolchildren.
But he told the BBC Thursday that he was not stopping work on the issue.
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I’m waiting for Valerie Jarrett’s sockpuppet to try something with our gun rights. I’m sure he’s (they’re) planning some kind of “executive” action before too long.
Can’t wait for them to try some $hit.
Yeah, they’re my biggest frustration, too. The only gun law should be the 2nd. There should be nothing else.
What he calls “common sense” = unconstitutional restrictions on law abiding citizens.
If Obama could only take all the guns from law abiding citizens then the criminals and psychos would stop killing and hurting people. It is very frustrating.
We have the quote of the day!
Armed free men (and women) are always frustrating to control freaks and would-be dictators.
I’m playing a very tiny violin for our dear leader right now.
Yes, I’ve been expecting that too. He (or his puppet masters, more likely) is determined to shove through every item on their agenda that they possibly can, no matter how they do it. They may not have another chance like this for a while, Hussein doesn’t have anything to lose, as a lame duck, so I expect to see him take a baseball bat to our rights.
And this feeble-minded POS is protected by the very same guns he “abhors.” And his skinny ass will have lifetime protection too by these awful guns. He’s a filthy hypocrite.
Both Obama and the limey moonbats at the BBC can go pound Shiite.
Yeah gun laws. Not the fact he screwed the American economy. Not the fact he screwed our healthcare system up. Not the fact he is destroying the social fabric of our society. Not the fact that islam is stilling killing American right here in America. No, none of that bothers him. It’s gun laws......... What a piece of jerk...
Dixie Chick...
That pesky Constitution getting in the way of an even more corrupt and all powerful dictatorship, Obama, you POS?
"If you ask me where is the one area where I feel that I have been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common sense, gun safety laws," Obama said. "Even in the face of repeated mass killings."Who would be against gun safety?
The reason Obama is troubled so much with America’s gun laws is that they distress his pure, innermost sensitivities. Those laws keep him from blessing the nation with the full potential of his enlightened ideas — community organizing (agitation) applied nationwide, with the gracious help of Boehner/McConnell.
FUBO!
The Founders wrote the Second Amendment expressly for the purpose of frustrating people like him.
Looking forward to the day the flag is raised half mass fot this chronic liar and manipulator. Although, he does not deserve it.
They want some type of popular uprising telling them that we want to be more like Europe.
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