Posted on 12/19/2012 10:31:49 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Obama Says All Gun Buyers Should Face Checks By JARED A. FAVOLE
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Wednesday said all gun buyers should be subject to background checks, offering his most specific proposal in the wake of the shooting spree at a Connecticut school and setting up a potential fight with gun-rights advocates.
"This time words must lead to action," Mr. Obama said from the White House, where he also announced that Vice President Joe Biden would oversee an effort to get ideas for changing gun and mental-health laws to Congress. "The fact that this problem is complex can no longer be an excuse for doing nothing."
Mr. Obama spoke five days after the shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., left 20 children and six adults dead. The shooting has prompted widespread calls for a look at the nation's gun and mental-health laws. The president acknowledged the call for quick change, speaking on a day when more funerals were planned for some of the victims.
Mr. Obama said he wanted Mr. Biden and his cabinet to get concrete ideas to him no later than January, "proposals that I then intend to push without delay." He urged Congress to vote on the measures once they arrive.
Mr. Biden could be essential to getting any changes to gun and mental-health laws through Congress, as he has decades of experience as a senator and often is Mr. Obama's go-to person when the president seeks to build support on Capitol Hill. Mr. Obama said he also chose Mr. Biden because he wrote a 1994 crime bill that led to a drop in violence.
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That's the whole point -- building a national name list. A national registry of gun owners, of people to be rousted at 2 a.m. and subjected to an intrusive search (wreck the place! -- tear it apart!!) for firearms when they don't turn theirs in.
Door to door to door -- do it the hard way. No media. Just a mob of uniforms at every doorway, waving a "warrant" from a pet judge, for the admiralty-law "arrest" of any-and-all "John Doe" offending firearms, and their immediate civil forfeiture under pain of arrest for interfering with officers.
Yeah, its real hard to replace all that stuff you lost in that boating accident.
Does this mean Coulter is finally back at work after her weeks-long three-way getaway with Mitt Romney and Grover Norquist?
You must have missed the key quote.
"Health care is the keystone of the arch of Soviet power." -- V. I. Lenin.
Information-gathering and "medical confinement" are what healthcare is FOR, in Communist practice. That's exactly what Obama and his crowd will use it for.
Remember all the stories about Soviet "psychiatry" and its confinement and forcible drugging of dissidents. It was ubiquitous.
I say all purple-lipped, flap-eared, traitorous Communist presidential-wannabes should face impeachment.
If you buy a gun from a dealer, you already go through an FBI background check. Apparently, leftists, including Bill O’Reilly, don’t know this.
This is an attempt at getting around the “gunshot loophole” for personal transactions. I’d like to see what novel idea he has that gives him the personal authority to do such a thing under Article II of the Constitution.
Of course, after the raping the Constitution took with respect to the interstate commerce clause and it’s bounds (or lack thereof) with Obamacare, all bets are off. The several states need to understand that their autonomy, what’s left of it, would be totally stripped if Congress implements this and SCOTUS upholds.
yes , that’s what I was referring to and you’re right, the party which helped them to get most of their rules passed is th eparty of lets reach out[sigh]
The background check requires Picture ID.
That’s Racist!
yes you are right. they no likey private sales.
i was just saying it wouldn’t stop a dad or mom handing down a gun to their child because they aren’t selling it. as it stands in newtown case, it would not have changed a thing. he stole the guns from his mom. plus was rejected at a gun store from buying a gun himself.
Voting is a right - bearing arms is a right. How about the same background check for both? It might be intimidating for some to present an ID for either one.
I say that all of Obama’s appointees, czars, advisors and recess appointment face open congressional hearings.
If I were still a reporter covering congressional hearings, I would wear asbestos clothes and jockstrap because of the heat from what would come out about these leftist, marxist, corrupt, crooked, anti-American bastards.
Many could NOT pass a basic security check. Period.
As long as the illegal uses your SS#, it’s okay.
Speaking of background checks, how about performing one on obama?
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