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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Isn’t that the same phrase he used in front of LaRaza just before he went ahead and implemented the unconstitutional dream act amnesty???
Wow, thanks D1. Great picture with Soetoro/Obama standing on our DoI and the torn and tattered Constitution all around. Thanks for bringing it up, KL.
““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.”
The Founders were spot on to constrain demagogues like this. Hitler was elected, too.
“These officials are elected by you. They are elected by you. I am elected by you.”
That’s a negative. This guy is a real piece of work.
Obama said: “ I am elected by you.”
Not me.
Obama said: “ I am constrained”
You sure don’t act like it.
Obama said: “ as they are constrained by a system that our Founders put in place.”
Colorado’s constitution was put into place in 1876, the Constitutional constrains upon them(Which includes a 2nd amendment type clause Article 2 section 13) were put into place by different founders than the rest of us.
As for our Federal founders their constitution is effectively dead as you demonstrated with Obamacare, and aministy.
Lololol.....
I save all my double barrels (O/Us)for trap/skeet/upland bird hunting over my GS pointers.
I have a Beretta semi auto I bought back in ‘73 that has a nice 5 round tube magazine.....I keep it loaded up with 00 buck. Good thing you can recharge that mag after expending a couple of rounds.....it never has skipped a beat....not once since ‘73......
“He is one sick joke.”
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I don’t think he “rises to the level” of a sick joke. He would need a ladder to climb up to the level of a sick joke. In fact I think you have insulted sick jokes everywhere.
Thank You, Lord!
I see a lot of remarks here on FR about handlers. Who are these guys?
Yeah...one errant NK nuclear bomb should do the trick on that...
Obama: ‘I Am Constrained By A System That Our Founders Put In Place
EXACTLY!
I see a lot of remarks here on FR about handlers. Who are these guys?
For one, Valerie Jarrett who told the moron three times to NOT go for Osama Bin Laden and finally gave the stupid a$$ permission on the 4th time to go after him. Now, I don't remember her ever being elected nor going through a Senate approval to tell numb nuts to do anything.
Notice that in that war room photo, he looked very upset because they had to drag his ass off a golf course.
Obonics to English translation: Constitution? I don't need no steenking Constitution.
Agreed, How low should one go in describing that depth?
How deep is the Challenger Deep portion of the Mariana trench?
It’s DEEP. Well, in that case why not got for the core!
Carney said some crap today or recently about “he isn’t king so he blah blah”. it’s obvious he can’t stand that he’s not the dictator he wants to be.
Man, this is just a damn cryin’ shame that he is constrained...
My heart bleeds purple kool-aid for him and his ilk.../sarc
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