Posted on 04/10/2013 6:28:44 AM PDT by Perdogg
This is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence," President Obama declared on Monday, promoting his "common-sense gun safety reforms" in a speech at the University of Hartford, where the audience included parents of children who were murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in nearby Newtown last December. "This is not about politics."
Unless you disagree with him. "There is only one thing that can stand in the way of change," Obama said, "and that's politics in Washington." Members of Congress have a simple choice to make, he explained: "What's more important to you—our children, or an A grade from the gun lobby?" This crass attempt at moral intimidation, contrasting Obama's benevolent motives with his opponents' child-endangering partisanship, is the essence of his case for new gun restrictions, which relies on emotional manipulation rather than logical argument.
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Typical Saul Alinsky strawman argument.
If a student in Texas had been carrying a gun for protection, he could have subdued the guy who stabbed 14 people yesterday.
I wonder how Ferdinand and Imelda Obama would feel if they had no Secret Service Protection and they had to dial 911 to stop an attack on them and/or their daughters.
suuurrrre, the messiah is all above politics and its all about the children
that’s why the PRESIDENT OF THE US snubbed the grieving Mattioli family and didn’t invite them to meet with him or take a joyride on Air Force One
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrcsE8W15Gs
ditto with the lamestream MEdia
The man has shown that he has never cared how much he abuses or takes advantage of anyone. Anything/anyone to push his agenda, that is all. He’s the supposed ‘man of the people’. What about all the slumlords he defended(allegedly, I don’t think the man knows anything about being a lawyer) in Chicago. I would have thought that he would have been defending the residents.
He could care less about those kids and families in Newtown, Conn. 60 school aged children died in Chicago last year. You don’t see their families being flown on AF1 for anything. Hell, you don’t even see them standing behind him, when he’s giving a speech. I guess they don’t garner the same type of sympathy from folks when they’re used as props for his agenda.
I wonder when someone will do a follow up on the number of people in Newtown that applied for gun permits. See smallgovtimes.com
Article Highlights
Permit applications more than double after shooting
Town received nearly 80 permits in 3 months, beating average
Police say residents fear Washington and/or state gun grab
We call Tyrant Kim Un Hussein’s smearing himself with the blood of dead children a political stunt to destroy the Second Amendment.
Why in GOD’s name people continue to follow that guy is beyond my comprehension. Hell, I knew he was a lying Marxist POS from day one.
This is more important to me.
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
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