Posted on 03/04/2014 10:56:52 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama returned to the subject of mass shootings on Tuesday by proposing to spend millions of dollars more on gun safety programs, inspections of retailers and background checks for people buying firearms.
If enacted by a U.S. Congress that has been wary of gun control measures, the $182 million package would advance an issue that rose to the top of the national agenda after the December 2012 shooting of 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Connecticut, elementary school.
The White House put forward the package as part of a proposed budget for the government fiscal year that begins on October 1.
Included in the package is $13 million to improve the background check system run by the FBI and $22 million more for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which inspects federally licensed firearms dealers.
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They couldn’t prevent the Boston Bombings with input from Russia.....who thinks they will be able to stop shootings by psychos?
Which accounted for zero mass shootings.
What a lying sack of poop this guy ios.
Anyone want to take a guess what republicans will do after they make a little bit of noise.
Yes, more money always solves a problem.
This funding is way too low for what bo wants to do.
I see it as a small amount that rinos could vote for, sensible you know, but is a place holder for ‘the pen’ to add to.
This would be the last thing that such monies would be used for. More lies. Obama/Holder already take as much of our money as they want to attack the Second Amendment and our rights.
Fast and Furious anyone??
Just JAIL THE TYRANTS!!!
Run , hide and cower ?
Just another “Money For Cronies” ploy.
Buy more guns for good guys to carry in public. That would actually work.
> Like the government can prevent mas shootings...
C’mon, you gotta understand.
The gummint’s idea of preventing mass shootings is to disarm the public.
That way, only the gummint can conduct mass shootings. Of course, such would be completely legal and would have the blessing of our benevolent dictator Barraq Hussein 0dunga and the head of his SS, Eric “Heinrich Himmler” Holder.
I agree. He can’t manage his own checkbook, how does he get away with such BS!!!
Yeah, that’ll do it.
We have mass shootings because we have a very unhappy society and way too many crazy people running around loose. They’re just expressing their right to be crazy, remember (a big thing in the 1970s, which is why we had psychotics cutting off their grandmother’s head before going on a mass killing spree with a knife, etc.).
Which accounted for zero mass shootings.
I dunno, the ATF got a bushel of Mexicans killed.
…...And just when I thought the resident could not get more stupid than he has already shown us he is, he comes up with this great idea.
Now if he can only get every state to pass a law against mass murdering, he will probably be be elected president for life…….or something.
I’d like to use that money to check the backgrounds of people who become president. They (he) have the power to conduct some EXTREME mass shootings, here or elsewhere.
Well, he, I mean CNN came out with the headline that military has the greatest amount of mentally deranged people; and Liam neeson’s latest film non stop clearly portrays the villian to be the military deranged mass murderer, and the helpful guardian angel type as the Muslim, so maybe he’ll just make the short cut now - sooner than later
And take the money from the military
Maybe Paul Ryan can advise him while he’s pretending to be critical
Who's national agenda? Certainly not my national agenda. Certainly not the national agenda of most citizens.
It's the national agenda of Yahoo Finance, and some other idiots without a clue.
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