Posted on 03/13/2011 3:02:54 PM PDT by driftdiver
The Second Amendment and court precedent guarantee an individual's right to bear arms, but improved and expanded background checks are needed to prevent gun violence like the shocking attack in Tucson in January, President Obama wrote in an op-ed Sunday.
Writing in the Arizona Daily Star more than two months after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, six of whom died, Obama said he's "willing to bet" that responsible gun owners would support laws to "keep an irresponsible, law-breaking few -- dangerous criminals and fugitives, for example -- from getting their hands on" guns.
"Most gun owners know that the word 'commonsense' isn't a code word for 'confiscation," he wrote.
"I'm willing to bet they don't think that using a gun and using common sense are incompatible ideas -- that we should check someone's criminal record before he can check out at a gun seller; that an unbalanced man shouldn't be able to buy a gun so easily; that there's room for us to have reasonable laws that uphold liberty, ensure citizen safety and are fully compatible with a robust Second Amendment," the president wrote.
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The world is burning and he's focused on this, its telling of his real agenda.
ping
Well this is one gun owner that would absolutely NOT support any more restrictions on getting a gun. Criminals don’t do background checks they buy a gun from the hoodlum down the street. Why should I be forced to jump through any more hoops than I already do? Take a hike O!
“He’s betting wrong”
He’s ONLY interested in what they can do in these 4 years. This has ALWAYS been about ONE TERM.
“CAUSE AS MUCH DAMAGE AS THEY CAN & GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE”
No one hires a hard communist into the cabinet if they seek reelection.
Every preseident would at least fake going to church if they sought reelection.
No one would “slip up” and say “my muslim faith” if they seek reelection.
And more more more.
All it takes is 1 or 2 states to pass “birth certificate required” laws & it’s one term.
Oh....that would be "racial profiling", and we can't have that.
Where do the vast bulk of murders occur? In flyover country/suburbia, or in the cesspools that are the Democrat-controlled major cities?
End of story.
I want better Presidential Eligibility Checks
Okay, if we can have better background checks for Presidential candidates first...
It would have been better for him to stress that the Sheriff should have done his job, then the guy wouldn’t have been able to get a gun.
No, "commonsense" is code speech for giving the government more control.
But...but...but what about the AMERICAN Bill of Rights Barry? Screw the “Patient’s Bill of Rights”, the “Freeloader’s Bill of Rights” and the “Consumer’s Bill or Rights”. What about the AMERICAN Bill of Rights?
Hey, this IS a big deal. He had to come in off the golf course to write this.
We don't want any more of your liberal, socialist crap. Step aside and let someone who really loves the Constitution have the job.
Huh? We got a zillion other things going on, and Obama’s talking about this?
There is something seriously mentally off about this guy.
Well, to coin a phrase, you damned fool and traitor, WTF is a "robust" Second Amendment?
Would you have it jump off the page and do pushups?
Would you have it run laps?
You, you damned fool and traitor, are truly a damned fool and a traitor.
WTF are you writing op-eds for, you damned fool and traitor?
Sheesh, what a moron.
Damned mohametan, too.
Win The Future, you simpleton.
How about better background checks on the “magic negro”?
This idiot Obummer has never even handled a gun yet he knows what gun owners think about things. Background checks into the AZ shooter would have come up zilch. Why? Because even though he was stark raving mad, no one arrested him or institutionalized him. Obummer is just looking for the next place to erode freedoms. Changing the language to include “Commonsense” in the gun debate isn’t going to fool anyone.
Its probably better he’s spending time on the golf course and playin b ball
Here he comes
Tanks rollin' down your street
He gets the dirtiest looks
From ev'ry bitter clinger he sees
Hey, Hey, it's Obama!
Always monkeyin' round!
Ain't never seen a freedom
He didn't wanna put down!
Seriously... the world is burning, we are being invaded, we will have sovereign debt next year (by some estimates) over 100% of GDP, Muslim whackos are training in our own back yard, and what does Obama want to do? PUT MORE RESTRICTIONS on the 2nd Amendment! Great idea, Barry!
Yeah, I’ll bet he “penned” it.
Most guns used in crimes are stolen, so is he proposing that a thief pass a background check before he steals your gun from your home or car?
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