Posted on 05/02/2013 10:33:42 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
President Barack Obama vowed Thursday during a trip to Mexico to continue pushing for new, tighter gun control rules in the United States, saying his proposals’ recent defeat in Congress was “just the first round.”
Speaking following a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, whose country has been ravaged by gang violence supported in part by gun trafficking into Mexico, Obama vowed to return to the issue of gun control in the United States.
“The last time we had major gun legislation, it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get passed,” Obama said at a press conference following his meeting with the Mexican president. “Things happen somewhat slowly in Washington, but this is just the first round.”
Democratic leaders in the Senate were forced to shelve a bipartisan proposal expanding background checks for firearms sold online and at gun shows when it failed to receive the requisite 60 votes to survive a filibuster threat. The measure’s Democratic proposal, West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, has vowed to fight to bring that proposal back up for another vote.
And in an article published Wednesday, the proposal’s Republican author, Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, suggested that politics were afoot in many GOP senators’ decision to oppose the package.
“There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it," Toomey told local newspaper editors.
Congress is away from Washington this week for a scheduled recess, but the issue of guns has followed members back to their states and their districts. Gun control advocates have aired ads targeting key senators for their votes in their respective states, and Democratic groups have trailed New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte throughout her state this week to put public pressure on the first-term senator for her vote during public town hall meetings.
The president and his allies are relying on the fact that public opinion is largely on their side when it comes to the specific gun proposals being floated by the administration.
“When you've got 90 percent of the American people supporting the initiatives that we put forward … I believe that eventually we're going to get that done, and I'm going to keep on trying,” he said.
Did you offer to send more guns to Mexico while you were there? Oh, that’s right, those programs are done without notifying anyone in their government.
I’d bet you could do it, regardless of gender. I know of many who would volunteer for the honor.
I’m pretty sure a petite, demure woman with no fighting experience would be more than sufficient for the task, onyx. LOL
Looking at the comments at the original NBC news article, Barry is full of it.
It appears that 75% of folks are on OUR side of this.
OKay...LOL.
I’m in.
And how is that working out for him even in a state completely controlled by democrats at all 3 levels?
Minn. House Speaker: No Gun Bills This Year
Completely defeated here in Minnesota! Franken is up for election next year and should take notice of what we accomplished here at home.
Keep at it folks, they picked a war they cannot win if we stay focused!
Stay focused folks.
If he throws a punch, block it and hit him twice back.
.90 percent, huh? That’s actually believeable. Now if he’d said 90 percent...
Hopefully we have a good challenger for him soon, rumor around here is maybe Jason Lewis will hopefully throw his hat into the ring.
I would pay good money for front row seats at a debate between the two of them!
I would kick him in his man parts then I would kick the side of his knee cap just for good measure.
He’s a freakin’ communist. Of course he’s going to “keep at it”.
Wicked, and “but of course”....LOL.
“There were some on my side who did not want to be seen helping the president do something he wanted to get done, just because the president wanted to do it,” Toomey told local newspaper editors. “
Yeah, that’s the reason Pat.
Idiot
Good eyes :)
To continue the metaphor, seems to me that in my youth I read somewhere that where an attack on the Second Amendment is concerned, we can always assume there are an infinite number of rounds.
Repealing any part of our Bill of Rights is impossible, without destroying the very fabric of "who we are," to quote a very delusional tiny man, parroting the words of domestic terrorists from our recent national past.
Please get rid of that guy!
Yeah, just keep telling the same lie over and over, and eventually people start to believe it.
Not all that good for a guy who got 99.8% of the vote.
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