Posted on 04/04/2013 8:24:34 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’
April 4, 2013 8:14 AM
DENVER (CBSDC/AP) — Ratcheting up pressure for Congress to limit access to guns, President Barack Obama said Wednesday that recent steps by Colorado to tighten its gun laws show “there doesn’t have to be a conflict” between keeping citizens safe and protecting Second Amendment rights to gun ownership.
“I believe there doesn’t have to be a conflict in reconciling these realities,” Obama said in Denver, where he stepped up his call for background checks for all gun purchases and renewed his demand that Congress at least vote on banning assault weapons and limiting access to large-capacity ammunition magazines.
“There doesn’t have to be a conflict between protecting our citizens and protecting our Second Amendment rights,” he said.
Obama noted that more than 100 days have passed since the shooting rampage that killed 20 first-graders and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., and reignited the national debate over access to guns.
“Every day that we wait to do something about it even more of our fellow citizens are stolen from our lives by a bullet from a gun. Now the good news is Colorado has already chosen to do something about it,” he said.
Obama also spoke about the people who say the government is coming after their guns.
“You hear some of these quotes: ‘I need a gun to protect myself from the government.’ ‘We can’t do background checks because the government is going to come take my guns away,’ Obama said. “Well, the government is us. These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you. I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place.
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At no time does Obama (or any other person in power for that matter) say to himself, “I can’t do this, the Constitution doesn’t allow it, or specifically denies it.” He says to himself (as all those in power have), “I’m going to do this and see if anybody stops me. And I will push the envelope just as far as I can.”
Parchment barriers do not constrain anyone. Power is checked only by power. The president’s power is constrained by either the congress or the supreme court saying “he can’t do that. Even if he did, pay absolutely no attention” The people also can say the same thing, we will pay no attention to you because you have no authority to do so. And we will use our guns against you if you try to enforce your unlawful acts.
But remove the people’s abiltity to use force against their own rulers, or remove their ability to remove them from office, and indeed, there is nothing to constrain power.
Obama and his people remind me of a squad of goons who break down your door at 3am to take away your children, then say, “No one is trying to take away your wife.”
Could you provide the sourcing and copyright info for that mural of BHO? It is very good and I would like to use it. I have been looking at each character and symbol in it for forty min! This is a great piece and the artist should be praised.
and a commie, too!
IIRC, assault weapons are already banned for sale/possession w/o special licenses. Would someone please define these guns and explain to that congressgal that clips are reloadable. One of the biggest dangers we face is totally stupid congress critters. Secondly we should fear those who would choose to turn our form of government into a socialist state.
‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place’ is becoming more of a burden than the 0 thought. BUT, I still believe he will plot something (crisis) that he can twist to allow him to stay in office.
Zero is catching on....he was MEANT TO BE constrained!!!!!!
Yes, you kenyan vulture, the founders recognized that stinking (stale BO), stupid tyrants required a system of checks, restraints, and divisions to prevent criminals in leadership positions from becoming robber barons and killers of innocent citizens.
Obummer, it was asshats like you who created the so-called “gun free” zones where most of the killings you’re ranting about are taking place. As for the inner cities, you and your ilk are too frightened to go after the gangbangers and put them out of business.
I do hear that a lot from my benchmark libinlaw...
“the government is us”, so we have no reason to fear that our liberties will be encroached upon.
King Obama, Thy President.
I liked this photo and wanted a large version to make a print.
Here is the largest I could find.
http://www.whitleycountypatriots.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/the_forgotten_man.jpg
It’s 3200 x 2149
What a scum sucking, Marxist, piece of human excrement.
The part that is concerning is the fact he is always looking for ways to break those constraints.....
Give him the Congress in 2014 (both chambers) and the chains are off....
He probaly kicks himself every night knowing he blew the chance in 2010...
But, he was a rookie tin hat wanna be dictator....back then...
Caliph Baraq, your subjects salute you!!
Thank the Lord and our Founders for the constraints in place for the King-in-Chief! Our Founders knew what they were doing, after all they had lived under a monarchy and did not want a repeat.
Jon McNaughton ‘The Forgotten Man’ Painting of President Barack Obama standing on the Constitution (Credit: Jon McNaughton)
Provo artist Jon McNaughton is back with a new painting, ‘The Forgotten Man,’ which features President Barack Obama standing on the Constitution.
In the new painting, a man, sitting in the throes of depression on a park bench in front of a White House, is seen surrounded by 43 presidents. On the other side, Obama is standing on the Constitution ignoring the depressed man while James Madon pleading Obama not to stand on the Constitution.
The painting also features discarded dollar bills and scraps of paper with individual constitutional amendments scrawled onto them.
Initially, the painting was released in 2010 and has resurfaced, causing a stir when it appeared on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s blog for caption contest.
McNaughton also uploaded a video on YouTube which shows him painting the canvas with a soundtrack that follows a movie trailer.
For a long time I didn’t know if I wanted to paint this picture, because I worried it might be too controversial. This man on the park bench represents every man, woman, and child who is an American... he hopes to find the American dream of happiness and prosperity, McNaughton said in the voiceover.
But now because of unconstitutional acts imposed by the American people by our government we stand on the precipice of disasters, he added.
I don’t place all the blame on Obama. On my website I try to explain what each president has done, he said. The thing I like about the painting is that it does get people talking.
Watch the video here:
Translation: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Slave Holding Founders Put In Place’
Constrained???
Eat more fiber.
His father was a hardcore Marxist (as well as a professional student, bigamist and mean drunk).
BHO Sr. wrote a paper on taxing people at —drumroll please—100%.
“Dreams FROM My Father”: Hussein is channeling pappy. Oh, and his mommy was a commie ... the rotten apple don’t fall far from the tree.
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