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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There are plenty of laws now Dipstick, if your ATF boys would stop padding the count for you so you can blame America for Mexico’s problem.
I hear he’s pushing the Right to Assemble Permit Program next week. My God, what a douche we’ve been saddled with.
I tell you, if the libs treated the CLEAR 2nd Amendment like their distorted “Right to Abortion”, they would be funding gun stores and making sure everyone who wanted a gun had at least one.
Just say that to a lib, they’ll say “Well a right to abortion doesn’t kill anyone”....and then just sit there and stare at them like, ‘really?’
ditto, my friend, penning op-eds?? wtf?
What timely article, and so relevant to our lives these days. /s
Why did he wait so long to provide us with his wonderful prose?
Was it because he and the other gun grabbers were hoping for another attack as a springboard for taking away more of our rights?
Sure thing. Right after applying the same stringent background checks on presidential candidates.
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