Posted on 03/15/2011 4:36:58 AM PDT by Second Amendment First
More than two months after the Tucson shootings, the administration is calling together both the gun lobby and gun safety groups to find common ground. But President Obama has no plans to take the lead in proposing further gun control legislation, aides say, and the nation’s major gun rights group is snubbing the invitation.
On Tuesday, officials at the Justice Department will meet with gun control advocates in the first of what will be a series of meetings over the next two weeks with people on different sides of the issue, including law enforcement, retailers and manufacturers, to seek agreement on possible legislative or administrative actions.
The effort follows Mr. Obama’s call, in a column on Sunday in a Tucson newspaper, to put aside “stale policy debates” and begin “a new discussion” on ways to better enforce and strengthen existing laws to keep mentally unstable, violent and criminal people from getting guns.
But the National Rifle Association, for decades the most formidable force against proposals to limit gun sales or ownership, is refusing to join the discussion — possibly dooming it from the start, given the lobby’s clout with both parties in Congress. Administration officials had indicated they expected that the group would be represented at a meeting, perhaps on Friday.
“Why should I or the N.R.A. go sit down with a group of people that have spent a lifetime trying to destroy the Second Amendment in the United States?” said Wayne LaPierre, the longtime chief executive of the National Rifle Association.
He named Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has almost no role in gun-related policies, and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.
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This lying bastard has no interest in the Second Amendment or public safety.
In the Middle Ages, when a local ruler was unpopular, he beat up on the Jews to raise his ratings.
Today, when a liberal official finds himself losing support among his base and the electorate in general, he beats up on the Second Amendment.
NOTHING will stop a determined lunatic from using a gun or anything else to carry out his objective. NOTHING short of a bullet would have stopped the Arizona shooter.
ALL these gun control measures EVER do is whittle away the rights of law abiding Americans to defend themselves and THAT is the ULTIMATE objective of the dictatorial, EXTRA- CONSTITUTIONAL statists like Obama. They fear an armed electorate which could oppose their plans for a force of brown-shirted state political police - Obama’s “Civilian Security Force” to take over government.
I APPLAUDE and SUPPORT the position of the NRA in refusing to meet with these lying bastards.
Hey, Insurance Industry....see, THIS is how it’s DONE!
Like that dream.
Leni
So does everyone notice the new moniker the gun grabbers have taken - “gun safety groups”. Sounds pretty innocuous doesn’t it. It doesn’t matter to me how they couch their rhetoric it still comes out as gun grabbers. Every few years they come out with a new title to call themselves, but they’re the same sorry people no matter what.
Just renewed my NRA membership 30 minutes ago. I have been a member for over 30 years and was going to let it expire because they have done some stupid things recently. When they told Obama to stuff it, they made my day.
Agree.
Notice when a Lefty biased MSM, or actually any Lefty lays out the cards showing gun options they focus on a few choices NONE OF WHICH ARE THE 2ND AMENDMENT?
In fact, more people and Corporations need to tell Obama to stuff it, when he wants to meet with them. Nothing good ever comes from meeting with this president.
You can say that again. Marcy Kaptur was on C-SPAN this morning. I had to switch to local radio.
WOW, even a wimp like WLP is opposing 0bama and is not seeking sweetheart carve-outs as he tried with Reid over advertising close to elections.
I am definitely NO fan of the NRA; they have supported way too many Democrats, but at least for now, WLP has enough sense not to throw in with the worst president in history. However, we will need to watch the NRA and WLP closely; much as watch over the rinos for back-room deals.
First the Israelis army is kind of busy protecting Israel half way around the world.
Secondly they are a foreign army and should stay the hell out of America.
Third, Rome has no army, in answer to the age old question. As such I think it weighing in on the matter would be a moot point.
“President Obama has no plans to take the lead...
Obama refuses to take the lead on anything. He votes “present” just as he did as a Senator in Illinois. No real budget proposals, Pelosi and Reid wrote “obamacare”, Libyan crisis, Israeli problems, last year’s budget, etc, etc, etc. This man-child will never take the lead. “
Obama is playing the part of Al Capone letting his thugs like Holder do the dirty work.
“In fact, more people and Corporations need to tell Obama to stuff it, when he wants to meet with them. Nothing good ever comes from meeting with this president.”
Exactly. You would not believe how fast he fades into the background if everybody started to tell him to go pound sand. Including Congress. He’s already the incredible shrinking president.
No doubt it was to discuss the latest “common sense” gun control scheme and try to get them to get on board with it.
The NRA found a ball.
I wonder who it belongs to.
Please do. lol
Good for NRA. It is beneath their dignity and intelligence to meet with organizers of community illiterates (CIs) who are barely above said level of CIs.
GFY FuBO.
Not One Step Back.
This is small politics /diversionary BS while the world burns around him
Diversion is how 0bama works. He diverts attention from one thing to another. No serious problem is ever seriously addressed and that’s how he wants it.
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