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Obama vows to keep at gun control: 'This is just the first round'
nbcnews.com ^ | May 2, 2013 | Michael O'Brien

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; fastandfurious; guncontrol; guns; mexico; obama; secondamendment
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Pro-sodomy forces kept fighting until they gained a toe-hold, too! The haters of America NEVER stop. We must not stop, either!
41 posted on 05/03/2013 2:31:10 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Just keep at it, Obama and you other liberals, until you succeed in tearing this country apart. We cannot continue along this path of two co-existent ideologies in one geographical locale.


42 posted on 05/03/2013 2:58:31 AM PDT by OldPossum
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To: Tailgunner Joe
"it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get passed,” Obama said

In other words: "Don't worry, the Republicans only play defense, so eventually the math catches up with them and in the end they always lose."

How many times have Republican leaders tried to unravel Obamacare? 6, 7, 8 times? No, not one battle.

43 posted on 05/03/2013 3:32:00 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: Tailgunner Joe

BASTARD


44 posted on 05/03/2013 3:50:36 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Tailgunner Joe
This is causing quite a stir - making the gun control freaks heads explode.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F1nPSNnaBo

only 2 minutes - pass it on after viewing. it is going viral ...

45 posted on 05/03/2013 3:55:14 AM PDT by bankwalker (In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Senator Ayotte’s townhall meeting was explained totally when you walked back to get to your car. Massholes cars license plates were 2 to 1. I wish they would stay out of New Hampshire and leave us alone.


46 posted on 05/03/2013 4:06:22 AM PDT by lucky american (The Democrats will follow the big "D"even if it means going over a cliff.)
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To: voteNRA

“inn. 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.”

That’s fantastic!!! I hadn’t heard that, yet. :-). That’s a great way to start the morning!


47 posted on 05/03/2013 4:22:58 AM PDT by MNGal
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You know they just make up numbers, any numbers they want. Remember their idiotic stats on jobs “created our saved?” For years the fitment has tracked and reported job creation. It has absolutely no way to track jobs allegedly saved. So when the job creation numbers were not backing hussein”s line of BS, they started reporting on created or saved. Lacking any real data, they literally make up whatever number they want, whatever fits their narrative. You notice that you don’t hear about this much anymore? That’s because everyone realized it was meaningless propaganda. Even the LSM doesn’t bother anymore, everyone ignores it. It is unquestionably the same line of BS with everything coming out of the hussein accommodation.


48 posted on 05/03/2013 4:26:17 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Viennacon

Obama is right. If he keeps going back, and back , sooner or later he will get enough idiots to support him to pass his gun laws.

That’s how many states passed same sex marriage, and gambling bills.


49 posted on 05/03/2013 4:32:26 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Tailgunner Joe

The continued lie that 90% of the people support gun control. It never ends.


50 posted on 05/03/2013 5:11:56 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: headstamp 2; mickie
Amazing....looks like we're the only two that picked up on Toomey's asinine remark.

Who's side is this jerk on, anyway?

Leni

51 posted on 05/03/2013 5:13:43 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Every time odumbo opens his yap about more gun control, gun sales “shoot up” (sorry I coulnd’t resist that ooportunity).

He is the most effective “gun salesman” this country has ever seen.

At least he can claim one thing he has accopmlished in the past 4 1/2 years.


52 posted on 05/03/2013 5:48:39 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Every time odumbo opens his yap about more gun control, gun sales “shoot up” (sorry I coulnd’t resist that ooportunity).

He is the most effective “gun salesman” this country has ever seen.

At least he can claim one thing he has accopmlished in the past 4 1/2 years.


53 posted on 05/03/2013 5:49:29 AM PDT by DaveA37 (I'm for HONEST government)
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To: bankwalker

Exellent. Thanks for posting.


54 posted on 05/03/2013 5:56:10 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: ThunderSleeps

Dear Mr. Pro-Gun Control politician,

I have but one question to ask you.
What is it that you want to do that requires the people to be disarmed before you try it?


55 posted on 05/03/2013 5:58:28 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Progov

Maybe Ostumbles should have thought about gun control before everybody bought one or 12. :-)


56 posted on 05/03/2013 6:01:05 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
HEADLINE: Obama vows to keep at gun control destroying the Constitution: 'This is just the first round'

There. I fixed it.

57 posted on 05/03/2013 7:16:51 AM PDT by Gritty (The Constitution's purpose is to insulate personal freedom from a lust for power-Judge A. Napolitano)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
The former, of course .. but you knew that   ;-)
58 posted on 05/03/2013 7:21:45 AM PDT by tomkat
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To: Tailgunner Joe; All

““The last time we had major gun legislation, it took 6, 7, 8 tries to get passed”

Do you all recall how the Brady Bill got passed after several failed attempts? Don’t be surprised if it happens again. All Obama needs is a compliant republican...like McCain, who is already tossing the 2nd amendment, along with the others!

It was Thanksgiving weekend, most of congress had gone home. 4 senators called a quorum and voted in the bill. Mark Hatfield and Bob Dole were the two ‘R’s. And what do the republicans do about that outrage???? They NOMINATE DOLE FOR PRESIDENT!!

That’s when I quit the GOP.

[snip]As Vice President Al Gore and Mark O. Hatfield, an Oregon Republican who supported the bill, watched, the two Senate leaders, Bob Dole of Kansas and George J. Mitchell of Maine, pronounced the measure adopted by unanimous consent. That is a parliamentary device allowing the leaders to pass the legislation themselves by voice vote after ascertaining that no senator would object.
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/25/us/gun-control-act-wins-final-battle-as-gop-retreats.html


59 posted on 05/03/2013 7:29:52 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

““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, “

If these people couldn’t lie, they wouldn’t be able to talk at all. Michael Medved said this morning that 87% of republicans want the gang of 8 amnesty, according to CBS. LIES.


60 posted on 05/03/2013 7:31:56 AM PDT by AuntB (Illegal immigration is simply more "share the wealth" socialism and a CRIME not a race!)
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