Posted on 01/15/2013 4:29:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
One month after the school massacre in Newtown, Conn., President Obama attributed the recent surge of weapons sales to efforts by gun control foes to arouse fears that the federal government would seize firearms.
Obama said he would unveil details of his "sensible, common-sense" program for tighter gun controls later this week. The president, responding to questions at a White House news conference Monday, said those steps would include "an assault weapons ban that is meaningful," stronger background checks and measures to keep high-capacity magazine clips "out of the hands of folks who shouldn't have them."
Asked at his news conference about the boom in weapons sales amid administration efforts to tighten gun rules, Obama said gun control opponents "have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government is about to take all your guns away."
The administration's gun control agenda is being fashioned by Vice President Joe Biden...
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Possibly if he could read, but my guess is that he was an “affirmative action” graduate under the “everyone gets a trophy” program.
I’m angry and disgusted, not afraid.
...and that fear caused by statists like Obama is driving people to gun shops looking for a little bit of insurance.
Mr. President, you are mistaken. It’s not fear, it’s resolve.
Facts and logic cannot get a person out of a position that facts and logic did not get them into.
You know rational thinking is lacking when Pravda, Russia’s communist political newspaper, makes sense. In a recent article, Stanislav Mishin writes that after the Bolsheviks seized Moscow in 1917, they promised to leave alone the well-armed citizens if they did not interfere. “They did not and for that were asked afterwards,” writes Mishin, “to come register themselves and their weapons, whereupon they were promptly shot.”
From Cal Thomas: [ he doesn’t always resonate with me], but his column today was good.
http://www.calthomas.com/index.php?news=3860
Have you read Uninteded Consequences?
Not yet, but it's on my list.
5.56mm
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