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Obama: Guns a Greater Threat Than Terrorism
Breitbart ^ | July 26, 2015 | Awr Hawkins

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; molonlabe; policestate; tyranny
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He said that he won't give up and he still has 18 months to go for his gun grab. If it goes well, then maybe he'll have more than 18 months.
1 posted on 07/28/2015 8:41:13 AM PDT by Perseverando
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To: Perseverando

Actually, CONSERVATIVES are a greater threat...

to elitists’ power,

than Islamic terrorism.

That’s what he meant.
And doubly so because they are armed.

Obviously there’s something they want to do to us that they can’t while we’re still armed.


2 posted on 07/28/2015 8:43:47 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Perseverando

The quotaboy is an ignorant, lying ass.


3 posted on 07/28/2015 8:44:11 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Perseverando

The White House should be a gun-free zone and all of the Capitol Police and Secret Service should be disarmed to help prevent gun violence.


4 posted on 07/28/2015 8:44:31 AM PDT by MeganC (The Republic of The United States of America: 7/4/1776 to 6/26/2015 R.I.P.)
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To: Perseverando
A greater danger than terrorism but not as great a threat as man-made global warming?

If guns are so bad, why wouldn't they be more dangerous than global warming, the greatest threat to mankind since WWII.

/s

5 posted on 07/28/2015 8:45:35 AM PDT by TexasCajun ( “A liberal is someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.“)
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To: Perseverando

We simply MUST get rid of these guns that wake up and go out and kill people all by themselves. THAT would be common-sense gun control!


6 posted on 07/28/2015 8:45:44 AM PDT by szweig (HYHEY!! (Have You Had Enough Yet))
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To: Perseverando
But...but...but...WHAT ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE?!?
7 posted on 07/28/2015 8:46:41 AM PDT by PROCON (FReeping on CRUZ Control)
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To: Perseverando

We better take this sheet seriously.

What he means to do is take them away from the law abiding white folks. The urban gang bangers will be de facto exempt.

Make no mistake. It’s all about the eradication of the white middle class. And while they personally won’t be killing and looting the whites, their fingerprints will be all over it.


8 posted on 07/28/2015 8:47:47 AM PDT by Paulie (America without Christianity is like a Chemistry book without the periodic table.)
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To: Perseverando

Actually, BO, a 3rd world president, is the biggest threat to Americans, period.


9 posted on 07/28/2015 8:48:07 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Perseverando
This self aggrandizing, selfie addicted,, perennial teenager is a greater threat than terrorism...




10 posted on 07/28/2015 8:48:24 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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“The United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun speech-safety laws.”

That's next.

11 posted on 07/28/2015 8:48:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Perseverando

Certain demographics in America have proven themselves incapable of civilized behavior.


12 posted on 07/28/2015 8:48:52 AM PDT by lormand (Inside every liberal is a dung slinging monkey)
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To: MeganC

True. I have been saying this for years. This is the needed gun control above all else.


13 posted on 07/28/2015 8:49:12 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: Perseverando
Hey Prezzadiddle O'Bunghole, if you add up all the innocent babies in their mothers' wombs who have been butchered in the name of Progressive Liberalism, it numbers in the TENS-OF-MILLIONS, you stupid steaming fag!

So what are you going to outlaw now? Liberals? Abortions?

No? Then GO SCREW YOURSELF, you useless poodle sniffing homo freak.

14 posted on 07/28/2015 8:49:14 AM PDT by Gargantua ("...fee tine a maadyy..." ;^)
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To: Perseverando

Did he even say the word “Islam” or “Islamic?”


15 posted on 07/28/2015 8:49:24 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Perseverando

0bama has sold millions of gunz to the law abiding. He has removed less than none from his Sons of Barack, big city thugs.


16 posted on 07/28/2015 8:49:33 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Perseverando

This is a DICTATOR telling everyone exactly what his plans are. They all do it. Every time the people fail to listen and fail to believe and then are subsequently “surprised” when tragedy happens. That trial balloon about a third term should not be dismissed out of hand either.


17 posted on 07/28/2015 8:50:11 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Perseverando

Progressive DEMOCRATS are a Greater Threat Than GUNS or Terrorism


18 posted on 07/28/2015 8:50:19 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: Perseverando

More people died in car accidents, but we don’t think people having cars is the problem.


19 posted on 07/28/2015 8:50:46 AM PDT by mlo
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To: Perseverando
Our dick-tater has spoken. Not unlike a Hitler or Mussolini


20 posted on 07/28/2015 8:51:46 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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