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Obama says fight for gun laws “ought to obsess us”
Associated Press ^ | Sep. 22, 2013 6:15 PM EDT | Nedra Pickler

Posted on 09/22/2013 3:25:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai

President Barack Obama on Sunday memorialized the victims of the Washington Navy Yard shooting by calling for a transformation in the nation’s gun laws to address an epidemic of gun violence, saying, “There’s nothing inevitable about it.”

Reprising his role of the nation’s consoler in chief after yet another mass shooting, Obama said Americans should honor the victims of last Monday’s shooting by insisting on a change in gun laws. “It ought to obsess us,” Obama said. …

He said no other advanced nation endures the kind of gun violence seen in the United States, and blamed mass shootings in America on laws that fail “to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people.” …

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. . . and yet he is calling for expansion of the same laws that fail to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and instead take them out of the hands of law-abiding citizens. Could he be more transparent?

Rather, the fight to keep our gun rights will instead “obsess us”, to use his words.
1 posted on 09/22/2013 3:25:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

I’m more obsessed with Benghazi. Who gave the stand down order and when will Hillary! be called to testify before a Select Committee?


2 posted on 09/22/2013 3:27:43 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs stay silent.)
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To: Olog-hai

Meanwhile, Hussein’s regime collects ammo at an alarming rate.


3 posted on 09/22/2013 3:28:09 PM PDT by Libloather (The epitome of civility.)
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To: Olog-hai

Undo the damage of the Clinton executive order banning arms on military bases and you can fix this.

How many military are the Clintons and Obamas going to hurt or kill in the name of gun laws?


4 posted on 09/22/2013 3:28:32 PM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Olog-hai

The fight to humanely care for the dangerously mentally ill should obsess us. And ending his race baiting. And end deadly multi-generation dependency. And....


5 posted on 09/22/2013 3:29:15 PM PDT by Red Dog #1
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To: Olog-hai

Gun crime decreasing 40% in 20 years is an epidemic
? Who knew?


6 posted on 09/22/2013 3:31:13 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Olog-hai

Gun crime decreasing 40% in 20 years is an epidemic
? Who knew?


7 posted on 09/22/2013 3:31:13 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: Olog-hai

Obama is “Obsessed” with destroying America.


8 posted on 09/22/2013 3:31:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statemet of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

Haw-haw. The last time America *did* get a bunch more gun laws. GUN LIBERTY LAWS.

If Obama wants more of the same, pretty soon even the crime enclaves like Chicago, New York, Detroit, Flint, and California will have their honest citizenry armed, and face a steep drop off of criminals. And crime as well.

Dead criminals = Less crime. Simple math.


9 posted on 09/22/2013 3:33:47 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Olog-hai

Gun crime is caused by the evil that men do.

Terrorism is caused by an evil supremacist ideology.

Terrorism is more preventable than crime.

This administration supports an evil Islamist imperialist supremacist ideology.

His “obsession” is a distraction from his love is Islamic theocratic rule.


10 posted on 09/22/2013 3:34:09 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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Obama will use this to take your focus off Obamacare.....that is what this country should be focused on...No Obamacare!


11 posted on 09/22/2013 3:34:16 PM PDT by yoe ("They Come To America" order it now: http://www.theycometoamerica.com/buy-dvd/)
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To: Olog-hai

Actually, B.O., I’m more obsessed with traditional American freedom, plus the preservation of the Constitution and its Second Amendment than I am with your fundamentally transformational commie obsessions.


12 posted on 09/22/2013 3:34:32 PM PDT by Amagi (God Save the Republic.)
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To: Olog-hai

The killer at the Naval shipyard had a background check for his SECRET clearance. Did a lot of good, didn’t it?


13 posted on 09/22/2013 3:34:42 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- <<http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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He said no other advanced nation endures the kind of gun violence seen in the United States

BS is BS.

“The U.S. is third in murders throughout the world. If you remove Chicago, Washington, D.C., New Orleans and Detroit then the U.S. is fourth from the bottom. These are four cities with the toughest gun laws in the nation and, of course, these are four cities ruled by Democrats.

No other civilized nation tolerates uncivilized behavior from a significant subculture in their population which is responsible for 80% of the murders, virtually all using illegal weapons that no number of new laws will prevent.
Criminals, by definition don't care about laws.
Disarming the victims, on the other hand...

14 posted on 09/22/2013 3:35:09 PM PDT by publius911 (Look for the Union label, then buy something else.)
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Wrong, marxist punk.

Preserving our personal independence and God given liberties from covetous tyrants ought to obsess us.

15 posted on 09/22/2013 3:35:43 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Jane Long

Benghazi? “That was a lonnnnnng time ago!” She won’t remember anything, anyway.. and she hit her head, too! She will have amnesia if ever called to testify again.


16 posted on 09/22/2013 3:36:12 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America (If Americans were as concerned for their country as Egyptians are, Obama would be ousted!)
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To: Olog-hai

Call him Ishmael...

17 posted on 09/22/2013 3:37:25 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: publius911

Clown Prince nobama requires to be ridiculed. The anti-Free-America loser should be in prison for his nevrr-ending crimes against the Constitution and against our Freedoms.


18 posted on 09/22/2013 3:38:41 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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No other civilized nation tolerates uncivilized behavior from a significant subculture in their population which is responsible for 80% of the murders, virtually all using illegal weapons that no number of new laws will prevent.

Criminals, by definition don't care about laws. Disarming the victims, on the other hand...

And who in the obama adoring MSM will call out obama on his ideas of "gun control"?

19 posted on 09/22/2013 3:39:04 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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There is an obsession of the Marxists in power to disarm the constitutionalists

So I and all patriots most hold our weapons and other freedoms even closer to our bosoms. And THAT should be the American Obsession

20 posted on 09/22/2013 3:39:25 PM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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