Posted on 07/28/2015 8:41:13 AM PDT by Perseverando
When Obama spoke to BBC last week he stressed his frustration over not being able to secure more gun control and suggested that the guns outweigh terrorism as a threat to Americans’ safety.
Obama’s exact words: “If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands.”
In the lead up to this statement, Obama mentioned “mass killings” with guns but did not mention mass killings or attempted mass killings in which those holding the guns were jihadists.
He said, “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws.” However, it is not that America does not have gun control. Rather, it is that Americans increasingly see that gun control does not stop criminals from acting out their criminality, therefore support for more gun laws has waned.
For example, the push to expand background checks to cover more types of sales had a lot of momentum nearly three years ago, then Americans noticed that those behind the high profile, mass killings were passing background checks to get their guns. Since Sandy Hook alone (December 2012), attackers and alleged attackers like John Russell Houser (Lafayette), Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (Chattanooga), Dylann Roof (Charleston), Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (Garland), Jared and Amanda Miller (Las Vegas), Elliot Rodger (Santa Barabara), Ivan Lopez (Fort Hood 2014), Darion Marcus Aguilar (Maryland mall), Karl Halverson Pierson (Arapahoe High School), Paul Ciancia (LAX), Andrew John Engeldinger (Minneapolis), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard), and Tennis Melvin Maynard (West Virginia), acquired guns via a background check. So what benefit do Americans gain from expanding such checks?
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Actually, he may be right if you just consider his home base — Chicago. 7 killed and 34 wounded over this past weekend, which is not too different from any other weekend.
0bama has sold millions of gunz to the law abiding. He has removed less than none from his Son of Baracks, big city thugs.
Vehicles are a greater threat than guns and terrorism combined.. And so?
Is climate change a greater threat than guns, Obozo?
Romanian term limits. Speed the Day.
Mr. Obama, America can see what happens when the best progressive gun control laws in America are enacted - it’s called Chicago-stan.
Progressive REPUBLICANS are a bigger threat than Democrats as they claim to be on our side while they sell us out.
..and don’t forget the drug cartels in Mexico whom he supplied a few thousand rifles, resulting in 300+ deaths and one of our own Border Patrol agents.
There were 30,057 fatal motor vehicle crashes in the United States in 2013 in which 32,719 deaths occurred.-Tom
Well, let 'em bring it. We've been preparing for 40 years, and we're ready for 'em. I will personally remove over 2,000 good-for-nothing-but-fertilizer salamanders from the field of conflict, and then I'll pull out my "big guns."
This retard wants to start a war that he's already lost... typical brain-dead dusky salamander.
I’ll bet 0dungo felt really safe surrounded by 50+ HEAVILY ARMED Secret Service agents when visiting Central Park with his daughters. HOW DARE HE!!!!
Hey Barack!
“Guns” are how WE protect against Terrorism, because YOU are unwilling and incapable of protecting American Citizens from Terrorism!
to his regime, they sure are.
all socialists hate guns in the hands of the people.
In that time, none of my firearms has:
...Committed suicide by blowing itself up on a train, plane, bus, or in any public or private space.
...Seized control of an aircraft and diverted its course for fun, profit, the release of prisoners, or crashed said aircraft into a fixed object or natural feature.
They haven't slipped down to the mall, movie theater, or local cartoon contest to shoot and kill people.
They have not visited schools with so much as malicious intent, let alone to shoot holes in the place and/or occupants.
They haven't tried to poison any municipal water supplies.
They haven't sent contagious and lethal diseases to people in the mail.
While we're on the subject of mail, they didn't send any explosives through any carrier to bring about the demise of or cause injury to anyone.
They didn't sneak off to Africa and blow up embassies, and never drove a truck or car full of explosives to anyone's doorstep and detonated it.
They stayed on shore and didn't take over a cruise ship and execute passengers.
They didn't try to smuggle a backpack full of Mother of Satan into a football game in Oklahoma and later blow up on the bench by the bus.
They have engaged in no acts of piracy, not even for fun and profit.
They didn't drag 200 schoolgirls off into the bush and sell them, rape them, or use them for bomb vest transporters.
All in all, Mr. Obama, my firearms have been pretty well behaved compared to terrorists.
They are happy here, content to go on occasional outings to punch holes in paper or provide game for my family--and yes, even deter criminals.
Should someone attempt to remove them against their will, I can't say they would remain so civil. They might regard such attempted theft as a hostile act against them and their owner.
Perhaps you would best spend your time dealing with those terrorists who have a track record of causing mayhem and doing damage, rather than inciting the millions of peaceful firearms which, like mine, are perfectly content to be well behaved.
“It’s all about the eradication of the white middle class.”
That IS absolutely the goal of these vermin. Never forget it.
Good point. We should also include the arming of Jihadis, like Isis.
Obama is not a human being. He was dropped of by Satan.
if it saves just one life disarming obamas security teams, its worth it.
would be nice if we started shoving their logic back down their throats.
Our Resident Moron speaks.
Someone should ask him the last time a single shooter killed over 3,000 people at one time...
Or when was the last time a person fired a gun and brought down 40 story building?
Obama is a sad and pathetic joke on America..........
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