Posted on 03/16/2011 2:46:33 PM PDT by neverdem
NRA to President Obama: The Problem Isn’t Guns, it’s Law Enforcement, Media and the Mental Health System
The heads of the National Rifle Association wrote to President Obama Monday, taking issue with his op-ed in the Sunday Arizona Daily Star, in which he said that since the tragic shooting in Tucson perhaps another 2,000 Americans have been lost to gun violence.
The president pushed for states to provide better data to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and suggested "an instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent system for background checks to sellers."
The heads of the NRA responded to the president's op-ed on gun issues, saying, “to focus a national dialogue on guns – and not criminals or mental health issues – misses the point entirely."
The problem is not gun laws, they say, bur rather lax law enforcement, a sensationalist media and deficiencies in the mental health system.
After suggesting that the president's claim to support the Second Amendment is "lip service," NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and chief lobbyist Chris Cox urged the president to:
• "contact every U.S. Attorney and ask them to bring at least 10 cases per month against drug dealers, gang members and other violent felons caught illegally possessing firearms. By prosecuting these criminals in federal court – rather than state court – strong sentencing guidelines would apply and charges would not be plea-bargained or dismissed, nor would criminals be released after serving only a fraction of their sentences. This simple directive would result in roughly 12,000 violent criminals being taken off the streets every year";
• immediately end the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives' "Fast and Furious" operation, "in which an unknown number of illegal firearm transactions were detected – and then encouraged to fruition by your BATFE, which allegedly decided to let thousands of firearms 'walk' across the border and into the hands of murderous drug cartels." (Read more on the Fast and Furious program HERE.);
• call on the media "to refrain from giving deranged criminals minute-by-minute coverage of their heinous acts, which only serves to encourage copycat behavior. If media outlets won't show a fan running onto the field during a baseball game because they don't want to encourage that behavior by others – surely they can listen to law enforcement experts and refuse to air the photographs, video messages or Facebook postings of madmen and murderers" and
• "to encourage people to report red flags when they see them. In the case of Tucson, a man clearly bent on violence was not reported to the proper authorities by those who had good reason to believe he had serious mental problems. That's not a deficiency in our gun laws, it's a deficiency in our mental health system – and should be treated as such."
You can read the whole NRA letter to the president HERE.[bum link]
ABC gave a bum html link. It crashed my computer twice. This will open in a new window.
Good one from the NRA, and the truth!
Obama just wants to ban private sales of firearms, and prevent them being entrusted to heirs. There is no 2nd Amendment anymore if that occurs.
I forgot to add that Obama won’t see the letter because he went on vacation, again, this time to Rio.
Nra could have added corrupt democrap cops and their “girlfriends” in the DNR, all public union employees seeking tenure, who hid the deranged one until he popped that judge dead.
Same thing happened with my liberal stuck on stupid neighbor. She complained of her godmother’s niece pointing a gun at her during her bipolar episode. I asked if she called the cops or the mental health. No, she did not, and she replied that if there were no guns it would not be an issue...
So liberals will denunce good people with guns but not the criminals.
Nra could have added corrupt democrap cops and their “girlfriends” in the DNR, all public union employees seeking tenure, who hid the deranged one until he popped that judge dead.
Same thing happened with my liberal stuck on stupid neighbor. She complained of her godmother’s niece pointing a gun at her during her bipolar episode. I asked if she called the cops or the mental health. No, she did not, and she replied that if there were no guns it would not be an issue...
So liberals will denunce good people with guns but not the criminals.
The NRA, and Wayne, are doing good this week. Nice to see.
One day a real deranged one will pull some trigger in some high position of power, like that loughner family empowering their kid to do it, just to show us how bad it is for America to have guns...
we need to criminalize liberalism.
Thanks, good letter by the NRA.
Guns are like government. They both can cause great harm in the wrong hands.
Those who argue that the despite the Constitution evil guns should not be in the hands of ordinary citizens, can be expected to soon argue the same about government.
And that has been one of the things the Left has been drooling over for years and I believe under this so-called "healthcare" there are provisions to do just that.
Obama sucks. Thanks neverdem.
ping
>I forgot to add that Obama won’t see the letter because he went on vacation, again, this time to Rio.<
he has been under tremendous strain lately, knowing everyone would be looking to him for the NBA picks. He has been really losing sleep over that.
thanks for the ping
When is Zero going to push for these kinds of background checks for voting? I see no reason that a 4473 style application and NICS background check shouldn’t be done for voting.
It would eliminate voters voting more than once, it would keep anyone ineligible from voting, and it would put a stop to most types of vote fraud out there.
It’s a common sense approach to a very dangerous problem that undermines the Constitution and the Rights of the people to be secure in their choices to vote. Only someone who would want voter fraud would be against such a background check when someone wants to vote. A few minutes of inconvenience is worth the security that we’ll have knowing our voting system is protected.
After all, if it’s good enough for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, it’s good enough for the Right to Vote... Right?
Then again, perhaps not.
My thoughts too.
That’s fine with me, but it still leaves two big problems: absentee voters and the demented in nursing homes being given ballots. The latter are filled out by staff.
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