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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I forgot that one......thank you!
Thank God for that.
You can say it. Don't be shy.
He is a First Class LIAR.
Oh, that is *fabulous*!
“I am constrained, as they are constrained, by a system that our Founders put in place.”
And people like you are the very reason they did it JACKASS!
Scary statement
He says that like he’s preparing to step around the constraints and dictate by executive order and massive regulatory suppression. As he has been instructed to do by those pulling his drug-addled strings.
I am currently applying for a patent on a speed loader for double barrel shotguns ... no really. After brainless Biden spittled his advice nb double barreled shotguns, I figure someone has got to fix the foolishness he started so the two blasts don’t leave tyhe shooter unloaded for too long.
I, I, I, Me me me me
“Constrained” is clearly a very deliberately chosen word here. He could have stated “limited by” or “obligated to honor”, he chose constrained for a reason ...
obama stated that he is not a dictator.
He also stated that he is not a bolshevik.
We conservatives shy away from recognizing this truth spoken by Obama. He is doing the thieving that about half of our neighbors want him to do. And while Obama lives far away in Washington, and New York Times writers live far away in New York, our neighbors live right next door and down the street.
So it just occurred to Obama that he can’t just rule by executive decree as he would like to? It only took him four years plus to figure it out.
he actually thinks he;s a dictator and his free loading family , well hers has now closed our house, which we pay for and is there any one protesting this except a class of kids from IO?
This is a disgrace and now this idiot wants the constitution ripped up and can’t understand the purpose of the constitution is that it stops a tyrannical Govt imposing on the people.
exactly, look at how the communists were imposing their homosexual agenda back in 63 and have not let up on this , just like health care and lets not forget FDR new bill of rights.
Lefty;s will never let up and never stop fighting to take this country to a communist state and our side had better get some balls, take the media on and take the left on and SPEAK UP to friends, family, neighbors, at work and let everyone know what is going on.
Yea I know I bet even some freepers never speak up at their family dinner let alone speak up about the homosexual agenda because they fear of being called a little name. ARF
TRUE but how many actually speak up to those neighbors, family at work.
The amount of times I;ve seen and heard how conservatives shut up when the homosexual agenda come up by left wing nuts or when the election is around the corner and conservatives say nothing after the thanksgiving dinner at their house is shocking and sick.
All of us should be calling the media, mailing the media and reps, not just our own but other reps, put pressure on them ,call out the media and taking on the left where ever they spout their communist crap.
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