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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Speaking of ignoring Obama...I had a dream last night that Benjamin Netanyahu and Rome not only refused to acknowledge Obama as the legit President of the United States because he failed to prove his citizenship status but Benjamin Netanyahu warned him to step down and the Israeli army protected us until Sarah Palin won in November.
“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.”
Pure, unadulterated bullsh1t. Obama wants to cut the legs out from under the NRA, and make it look like he’s doing them (us) a favor.
Our president is as phony as a three dollar bill - or, for that matter, his “Hawaiian” birth certificate.
you can not converse with a moron
Exactly.
In this case, what the Kenyan Clown is up to is simple enough: he wants to ban all private sales of firearms.
There is nothing to discuss with the gun-grabbers here.
Been bandied about on FR for the last few days, FRiend. It will never happen. The rest of the world is still enamored by the big-eared man boy.
NRA will not find common ground with a steaming pile of Muslim boot wipe.
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 a real pofs. Since tucson minorities have killed tons of cops. Has he said a word about that? Has he said a word about the inner city thug ghetto culture where most crime occurs?
No! He chooses to exploit a one in a million situation for purely emotionaLly driven reasons.
Ffffuuuubbbbbbooooooo.
Obama is trying to use them as the foil. He wants to either blame them for “unreasonable demands” and let things fail and point the finger or be able to say “even the NRA agrees with my proposals” as a way to shift it on them.
He is too cute by half w his crappola and many see right though this.
The only way any one should “meet” with nobama is with cameras and audio rolling. Personally, I would only meet with him if he publicly and in advance promised to resign at that time.
I would hand him my bc and ask - “sir, where is yours?”.
Gun safety groups? Seriously?
Glad I renewed my NRA membership for a couple of more years. They have angered me several times but when push comes to shove you can count on them to show up for the rumble.
I am now to the point that when a liberal speaks I tune them out, turn them off, leave or tell them to STFU, as I can no longer stand the constant lies.
Lets face facts, if you are a Democrat at this point in history you are either too ignorant or too evil to tolerate, and I do not hear you.
Headline: NRA Refuses To Negotiate With Terrorist
“Our president is as phony as a three dollar bill”
He is as queer as one also.
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