Posted on 02/23/2016 8:25:15 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
The $4.1 trillion budget Barack Hussein submitted to congress at the beginning of the month includes a request for hundreds of millions in extra cash to beef up the left’s assault against the 2nd Amendment.
According to The Hill, “The ATF budget request is $1.3 billion, of which more than $35 million will be spent hiring 200 additional agents to reduce gun violence. The FBI is also requesting more money to hire an additional 230 employees to speed up the process to background checks on gun sales.â€
And what is it that constitutes the so-called “epidemic of gun violence†that brought crocodile tears to the eyes of the most corrupt president the national media has ever shielded from justice? Mass killings and assorted firearm homicides.
What follows are statistics which the American public will never be provided by the White House.
Mass Killings
1) In the last decade of the 20th Century, 49 mass killings took place in the United States. (Murders of multiple victims by an armed assailant). In the first decade of the 21st Century, 26 mass killings took place.
2) “Although mass shootings have been covered extensively in the media, mass shootings account for a small fraction of gun-related deaths and the frequency of these events steadily declined between 1994 and 2007, rising between 2007 and 2013, before continuing a downward decline.â€
3) “A common theme of mass shootings is that they occur in places where guns are banned and killers know everyone will be unarmed, such as shopping malls and schools.â€
“The Aurora shooter, who killed twelve people [at a movie theater], had a choice of seven movie theaters that were showing the Batman movie he was obsessed with. All were within a 20-minute drive of his home. The Cinemark Theater the killer ultimately chose...
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No, Obama will borrow $25,000 per gun crime from China, and we will have to pay it back. That is another just type of armed robbery.
No, Obama will steal 25,000 per death and distribute it to friends. Thats what he is there for. After this it will be on to another ruse.
The way Chicago is going he’ll blow all that money there.
This is a great idea. If Obama will send me $25,000 I’ll promise not to shoot anybody...scouts honor!
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