Posted on 01/21/2011 11:00:18 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
Now that Dick Cheney has opened the door to tighter gun restrictions, will President Barack Obama do the same?
That politically dicey question is playing out behind the scenes in the run-up to next week’s State of the Union. In the aftermath of the Tucson shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and federal Judge John Roll, gun control groups and some Democratic members of Congress are pushing to get the president to directly address the issue of gun violence in his speech to Congress next Tuesday, according to gun control advocates and congressional aides, who asked for anonymity.
Some Democratic party donors are also being urged to weigh in as part of a quiet lobbying effort to prod the president to finally speak out on an issue that he has studiously avoided since taking office, the advocates say.
“There’s a major push to get [Obama] to say something on this,” said Chad Ramsey, legislative director of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, a leading gun control group. “We’ve been told he will say something, but we’re not sure how strong it will be.”
(Excerpt) Read more at openchannel.msnbc.msn.com ...
He said it loud and clear. Here's an article from the era: NYSLIMES
Obama will try to hand Pelosi the gavel.
Even the Democrats have (mostly) figured out that this issue is a loser for them.
Just another servant to the NWO. His stance on Open Borders/Amnesty is all we need to know.
You are right about nameing the bill after a dead 9 year old girl. The left loves to prop dead children up and immortalize them so they can take away more GOD given rights.
The only time they dont like to use dead kids is when some doc is jamming a icepick in their brains durning a late term abortion.
You took the words right out of my mouth. You couldn’t pay me enough to tolerate watching that affirmative action idiot give my country the middle finger.
No he didn't, and there is no quotes from GW Bush at all in the link you posted. You trust the NYT? lol.
Better go back and read the statement by another poster that my comment was about. There is no way GW ever said that.
He will ALLUDE to it.
He will ALLUDE to it.
Oh man...I hope this happens. Republicans will control the house, senate, and presidency if it does. Come on 2012.
Yes...he said it.
He’ll push taking guns away from the mentally ill - then later define ‘mentally ill’ as being conservative...
Cheney’s shotgun has shot more people than my high capacity guns have.
That is just pure crap!
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