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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That’s obvious, since he keeps kissing the dirty a$$e$ of terrorists while the does everything he can to steal guns from honest, law-abiding non-violent citizens.
The world needs a righteous America to act as God's sword as described in Romans 13. That's why He blessed us so abundantly. And since America is no longer that righteous sword, America is of no use.
Barry’s arming, at taxpayer expense, his domestic police force with billions of bullets, turning over arms, munitions, crew served weapons and vehicles to muslim and Mexican narco-terrorists intentionally or `oops’, but American citizens arming themselves?
“ ... we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws.” Obama
Translated: “I want their guns.”
We need more places like Chiraq? Is that what he means?
Come and get them, pencilneck.
Guns are not the problem.
The problem is all of the pychos on the streets. Almost every perpetrator of a mass murder, actual of planned, has been said to be on psychiatric drugs.
Background checks on private sales create a de facto gun registry.
oh, he asked what AMERICANS gain from it.
Unfortunately no one seems to be worried about what I consider a far greater threat to Americans than the psychos on the street - the psychos in the Obama administration.
He promotes and imports and finances islamonazi terrorism and aggression It’s his number one good.
Yes you did.
Ping. ;-)
Now that data plot looks to be inconvienient....
Dude!
Hey now!
He’s sold more rebel flags than Robert E Lee, too.
Yesterday, amongst all the trucks and cars with them flying off the backs, I saw a guy on with a 3’ x 5’ battle flag affixed to a *bicycle*.
Bless him, the man had heart.
Does he mean the guns that the government has?
I’m now ready to get some RFs to supplement the Gadsden Flags.
Worst anti-salamander rant, ever.
They’re both on the same Big Evil list so you might as well.
[and don’t forget your INFIDEL patch]
:)
Funny. It’s a great summer afternoon out here in the BY with the dogs and their kiddie pool.
I’m about to declare myself a protected FR species. :D
Sitting with the pups on the sofa in the AC day, here.
Himself is busy out in the shop building a house for an Argentine Boa I just rescued.
good one. post #20
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