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Obama to lay out first steps in gun policy talks after Newtown tragedy
CNN ^ | Dec 19, 2012 | Dana Ford and Holly Yan

Posted on 12/19/2012 3:33:12 AM PST by Innovative

With the shock and horror from Newtown giving way to anger and calls for action, President Barack Obama will announce his first concrete steps Wednesday in addressing the raging debate about gun policy.

Obama is expected to announce that Vice President Joe Biden will lead an inter-agency process to develop policy in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre.

White House aides say Obama won't announce major policy decisions Wednesday, but will outline his administration's path forward.

"These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change," Obama told a packed auditorium at Newtown High School on Sunday.

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"You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."

-- Rahm Emanuel

1 posted on 12/19/2012 3:33:23 AM PST by Innovative
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Yes, we must change. We must give out the combos to our gun safes to anyone. Hell, let’s just leave the safes open. And of course, we should leave our guns in the open in our unlocked cars. Is that what he has in mind?

Bad guys don’t go thru the same process we law-abiding citizens do to procure our self defense weapons. If a bad guy wants a gun, he will KILL someone to get it.

Because of the actions of the few, many will be punished. Zeig Heil! (that’s German for bullshit)


2 posted on 12/19/2012 3:40:37 AM PST by blu
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To: Innovative

Obama has to get this done before the bodies turn cold.


3 posted on 12/19/2012 3:45:31 AM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: Innovative
Joe Biden is going to lead the effort; well maybe there is hope. The jokes would write themselves, but they would all be in bad taste.
4 posted on 12/19/2012 3:46:44 AM PST by Truth29
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To: Innovative

5 posted on 12/19/2012 3:49:17 AM PST by Zakeet (Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage - Mencken)
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To: Innovative

The PTB think their lives are invaluable, and thus they are allowed to protect their own lives and the lives of their loved ones. However, they do not think that our lives — we, The People — have any value at all; thus they see no reason why our lives should be the subject of protection.


6 posted on 12/19/2012 3:49:46 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Innovative
This was a horrible tragedy, and I can't imagine going on with my life if my child was one of the victims. We obviously should all be praying for those parents.

However, knee-jerk reactions to tragedy, and worse, using tragedy to score political points, is not the right course.

Should we be having a national discussion about banning or restricting automobiles? The following statistics are from an article published this year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/may/02/traffic-accidents-biggest-killer-young-people

Excerpts:

“Roads are now the biggest killer of young people over the age of 10, with road traffic deaths constituting a global health epidemic that has reached crisis proportions, according to a report published on Wednesday.”

“Children and young people are the worst affected, with road traffic injuries now the single biggest source of fatality among 10- to 24-year-olds worldwide. In 2004, the last year for which comprehensive data is available, road traffic injuries killed more 5- to 14-year-olds than malaria, diarrhoea and HIV and Aids.”

7 posted on 12/19/2012 3:50:12 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: Innovative

It’s a BFD to fundamentally transform America.


8 posted on 12/19/2012 3:53:34 AM PST by windsorknot
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Vice President Joe Biden will lead an inter-agency process to develop policy in the wake of the Connecticut elementary school massacre

Yeah a Government policy. That will work. Just look how well the Governments policies on jobs is working, the Governments policy on immigration is working, the Government policy on health care is working, the Government policy on debt is working.
One policy will work and always works. Be able to KILL the bad guy before he kills you or those around you.


9 posted on 12/19/2012 3:54:39 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: Innovative

Obama is the biggest tragedy to ever befall this Republic.

What good it is to trade your liberty and rights for a false semse of safety delivered by a dictator wanna be?


10 posted on 12/19/2012 4:03:50 AM PST by dforest
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...Vice President Joe Biden will lead an inter-agency process...

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Sounds to me like Der Fuehrer intends to bypass Congress and rule by decree.


11 posted on 12/19/2012 4:11:31 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: Innovative

Just words, abslutely no substance at all!


12 posted on 12/19/2012 4:15:24 AM PST by redflash ("A dog is a dog until you look him in the face, then he is Mr. Dog!")
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To: Innovative

Just words, absolutely no substance at all!


13 posted on 12/19/2012 4:15:33 AM PST by redflash ("A dog is a dog until you look him in the face, then he is Mr. Dog!")
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To: Innovative

A committee headed by Joe Biden? This horse will surely look like a camel.


14 posted on 12/19/2012 4:16:33 AM PST by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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“””Sounds to me like Der Fuehrer intends to bypass Congress and rule by decree.”””

Dictators don’t need Congress.


15 posted on 12/19/2012 4:19:20 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: Innovative

While the NRA has been largely quiet, the national debate over guns is reaching a new high — some calling for stricter control; others for more access.
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Is it me, or is that gray area getting smaller and smaller and harder to see?

Division. What side you are on?


16 posted on 12/19/2012 4:22:19 AM PST by Lucky9teen (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading.~Thomas Jeffer)
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To: joshua c

If the thing fails, Biden will get the blame, if it doesn’t Obama will get the credit, and poor Joe didn’t even see this coming.

Obama is going gun grabbing, Biden is going to get the rap for it.

Biden is sitting there saying Duh—who me?


17 posted on 12/19/2012 4:25:40 AM PST by Venturer
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To: pieceofthepuzzle

With the rise of cars that drive themselves, you will see laws banning people driving sooner or later.


18 posted on 12/19/2012 4:28:39 AM PST by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: Innovative

The liberals and their president have failed. There have been far more mass shootings under “his watch” than any other administration. Various cities around the country have become war zones. Over 2000 guns were given to criminals. A jihadist infiltrated our military and murdered troops on American soil. Instead of laying out a policy, he should resign.


19 posted on 12/19/2012 4:29:10 AM PST by Toespi
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Various cities around the country have become war zones.

Good point, but no one in the media and certainly not among the dirty 'Rats will admit this. Just look at Obama's "hometown", Chicago. I am guessing that after a couple or few nights there, the death total from the CT tragedy will have been exceeded. Things there are so bad that Godfather Rahm is going on TV begging the gangbangers to "leave the children alone". And there are dozens more places like it, Detroit, south LA, Miami, Washington. If Obama wants to control guns, start in those places. He can go out and beg the gangbangers to give up their guns to their homeboy.

20 posted on 12/19/2012 4:34:49 AM PST by chimera
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