Obama asks Congress for money to prevent mass shootings

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[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.

[CivilWarBrewing]

Sandy Hook.. Not one drop of blood ANYWHERE. Not a single speck of blood..

Not even on ONE person's clothing.. NONE ANYWHERE!

[BitWielder1]

Yes, more money always solves a problem.

Yes it does. Not YOUR problem, theirs.
They wanted an excuse to spend more money and now they got it. Problem solved.
Won't have any effect on mass shootings you say? Who cares? That was never the real issue.

[I want the USA back]

It’s not about preventing mass shootings. It’s about “gun control.” Nothing less.

They never talk about taking guns from violent criminals. Only from honest, non-violent normal people.

[meatloaf]

Zero seems to have an ongoing problem with input from Russia. The latest from Putin is no exception. If he can’t make sense of a straight up tip, he probably won’t understand FO or KMA either.

If 9/11 and events afterwards haven’t taught us anything else, the should have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt the federal government is seriously incompetent.

As a measure of that, long ago the ATF cut the number of FFL inspectors in half. It’s tedious and boring work for those that would prefer the adrenaline rush of breaking doors down and killing women and children ala Waco.

Now the blind pig has found an acorn it threw away as worthless decades ago.

[AlaskaErik]

The easiest and most effective way to end mass shootings is to eliminate disarmed victim zones aka gun-free zones. It's where where virtually all mass shootings occur.

[Sooth2222]

How about some money to keep crazy people in institutions so they don't hurt themselves and other people? (Or are crazy people such a large Democrat voting bloc that Obama doesn't dare?)

[Pollster1]

Preventing mass shootings is easy.

1. Fund the Civilian Marksmanship Program (done).

2. Repeal all laws that infringe on the right of the people to keep and bear arms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_High_School_shooting Pearl High School’s assistant band director, Jeff Cannon, was standing five feet away from Dew when she was fatally shot. Woodham went on to wound seven others. The school’s assistant principal, Joel Myrick, retrieved a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol from his truck and, spotting him near the parking lot, shouted for Woodham to stop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachian_School_of_Law_shooting Three people were killed and three others were wounded when a former student, 43-year-old Nigerian immigrant Peter Odighizuwa, opened fire in the school with a handgun. When Odighizuwa left the building where the shooting took place, he was approached by two students with personal firearms and one unarmed student.

http://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/armed-citizen/1996/the-chronicle,-muskegon,-mi,-82395.aspx?s=%22%27All+In!%27%22&st=&ps= Store owner Clare Cooper was returning behind the counter after showing three of the four conspirators some jewelry, when one of the group pulled out a gun and shot him four times in the back. Stumbling for the safety of his bullet-proof glass-encased counter, Cooper managed to grab his shotgun and fire as the suspects fled.

http://blutube.policeone.com/police-training-videos/935831023001-jeanne-assam-and-the-new-life-church-shooting/ On December 9, 2007 a 24-year-old gunman named Matthew Murray launched a brutal assault on the parishioners of the New Life Church in Colorado Springs (Colo.) that left two innocent victims dead. Because of the quick actions of a former police officer from Minnesota named Jeanne Assam, that number could easily have been much, much higher.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2911219/posts Gun-shop employee prevents massacre(California, 1999)

http://www.keepandbeararms.com/information/XcIBViewItem.asp?ID=1446 Late at night on Tuesday, December 17, two men armed with recently-stolen pistols herded 20 customers and employees of a Shoney’s restaurant in Anniston, Ala., into the walk-in refrigerator, and locked it. Continuing to hold the manager at gunpoint, the men began robbing the restaurant. Then one of the robbers found a customer who had hidden under a table and pulled a gun on him. The customer, Thomas Glenn Terry, legally armed with a .45 semi-automatic pistol, fired five shots into that robber’s chest and abdomen, killing him instantly. The other robber, who was holding the manager at gunpoint, opened fire on Terry and grazed him. Terry returned fire, hitting the second robber several times and wounding him critically.

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/columnists/article_ba2d7bb8-2faa-5686-bc79-85d9361f62d4.html

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/opinion/columnists/article_ba2d7bb8-2faa-5686-bc79-85d9361f62d4.html

http://www.ktxs.com/news/RV-PARK-KILLINGS-Witness-shooter-recounts-shootout-with-gunman-who-killed-two-in-Early/-/14769632/15933066/-/30wo2o/-/index.html

http://www.wktv.com/news/local/95032689.html

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/college-student-shoots-kills-home-invader/nD9XG/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_Square_shooting

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/19251374.html

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/mass-killings-stopped-by-armed-citizens.html

There are MANY others, but the point is clear. Repeal gun laws to save lives in mass shootings. When seconds count, the police are minutes away, but civilians are already there.

[Carriage Hill]

Come to think of it, you’re right; nothing made public.

[unixfox]

Why not use that money to do blanket round-ups of thugs and gang members?

Oh wait. that would be RACIST!

[plainshame]

All the money in the world won’t stop mass shootings!

[Sheapdog]

I don’t agree with every said at these sites but I certainly do think Sandy Hook was a weird false flag designed to get the public to give up their guns. Way too many strange things aspects that cumulatively don’t add up.

One example is a picture of the school which doesn’t appear to be a functional school - while there are satellite image pictures of a full elementary school a few miles down the road with cars and buses when Sandy Hook is empty -

One can even see 26 Christmas trees behind Sandy Hook the day of the shooting in the back parking lot and they are countable. The exact amount that were to be planted there afterwards in honor of the apparent deceased.

http://wakeupcallnews.blogspot.com/2013/12/adam-lanza-never-existed-sandy-hook.html

http://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2013/01/10-facts-that-prove-sandy-hook-shooting-was-a-hoax-2536490.html

http://fellowshipoftheminds.com/sandy-hook-massacre/

[Sherman Logan]

It would be interesting if somebody looked at, say, the top 20 mass shootings and see how many of them might have been prevented with these laws in force.

The Newtown massacre certainly wouldn’t have been.

[Logical me]

King Obama is such an ars that he is the dumbest of the dumb in America. He leads the millions of ignorant.

[CivilWarBrewing]

I don't expect photos of dead children to be released. Of course not.. But I DO expect the media clambering to get at least a single bloody foot print from survivors exiting the school. Not a ONE!

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/01/07/top-ten-reasons-sandy-hook-was-an-elaborate-hoax/

[DeWalt]

A little loan to the Brady Bunch.

[BushMeister]

I don’t want to see Obama given a damn thing. But if the R’s examine what is being proposed, and deem it non-infringing, or acceptable after some changes, and they feel they should be seen to support some “gun-safety” measure, then GET SOMETHING IN RETURN. That’s how you negotiate. Don’t settle for the other side getting 80% of what they want while we get nothing.

[Lion Den Dan]

does not take money to prevent mass shootings. Cancel ALL firearms restrictions, go to national constitutional carry and encourage school personnel to carry on the job. Require a weapon and certificate of combat/self defense training to board any train, bus or airplane providing transportation within the boundaries of the United States. There are probably a few points that I missed but do the above and 99% of the mass shootings and hijackings will be pure history.

[Lion Den Dan]

GrrrrBaaa. Baaarowlll.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Show me one law that would have kept those children and the 6 adults alive and I’ll back it. So far, I have seen nothing that could have prevented that nut from doing what he did. Like it or not, that is reality.

[Amagi]

Brilliant.
Throw a crap load of money at it and it will just go away.
Obama is a Miracle.