Posted on 06/10/2014 4:18:39 PM PDT by servo1969
resident Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.
“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.
“We can have respect for the Second Amendment and responsible hunters and sportsmen can have possess weapons,” Obama told an audience of students during a broadcast on the Tumblr website.
But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt.
Australia also instituted a gun buy-back program and a national registery and licensing system in the wake of the April 1996 mass shooting.
Obama’s statement is likely to cause heartburn for Democratic candidates in Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and other states where gun rights are valued.
But it may also spur turnout among young Democratic voters, who are demoralized by the lousy Obama economy.
Obama’s comments on guns came after the host asked him about the recent shootings, and Obama replied with an unusually emotional pitch.
“My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.
“We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens. … Our level of gun violence is off the charts. There’s no advanced developing country on Earth that would put up with this,” he said.
Obama dismissed the argument that shootings are not the fault of the mental health of Americans. ”The U.S. does not have a monopoly on crazy people, it’s not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else,” Obama said.
Obama did refer to the Second Amendment, but didn’t describe the limits that it imposes on government. “We have a Second Amendment, we have historically respected gun rights, I respect gun rights, but the idea that we could not get a background check [into law] … makes no sense,” he complained.
“I’ve been in Washington, and most things don’t surprise me, [but] the fact that 20 six-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town could not do anything about it, was stunning to me,” he said about the Newtown shooting in December 2012.
“If public opinion does not demand a change in Congress, it will not change,” he said.
Surely there’s a nut in Australia somewhere who will prove Obama wrong.
Correct.
I've noticed how this knucklehead (read, a$$hole) only talks to the most ignorant among us.
Of course, they also vote, and hey - he did cut them a break on their student loans... so they're for sale, too.
Student hos.
Impeach the bastard!
Our jackass President has no problem arming our enemies, though.
“Oh no! Is that the thugs we equipped in Syria attacking the government we support in Iraq?”
“Don’t worry. We’ll just tell the press that they’re going on vacation.”
Yeah, we’re the only nation on this planet where murders happen.
I suppose this jackass who got caught supplying semi-autos to the Mexican drug cartels (Fast and Furious) and to Al Qaeda (Benghazi) thinks the country would be much better off if murderous psychopaths did not have guns and instead used IEDs and homicide vests.
Get lost you Marxist Commie.
IIRC, Norway has some pretty strict gun laws. Didn’t stop them from having the largest mass shooting in history a few years ago. Biggest factors were isolation of area and lack of armed citizens.
‘And may I add — its these kinds of draconian proposals that make me wonder if the “false flag school shooting” nuts may be on to something after all.’
Funny how these things continue to happen just when the Zero admin. needs to change the subject. Almost seems like it is engineered that way. I am sure it is just a coincidence except I don’t believe in coincidences, especially when this bunch of thugs is involved.
America needs a ban on stupid Mulatto Presidents who don’t know sht from shinola!
Its even more than that. Over 190 million since 1998.
Obama can say anything he wants its not going to happen unless he is that bent on starting CWII. I don’t even pay any attention to anything the guy says or does anymore.
O really hates conservatives. O is very revengeful.
That would be a good start!
No more Waco, no more Ruby Ridge. obama tries to say firearms are for hunting and he is okay with that. But the 2nd Amendment says nothing about hunting. Its purpose is clearly to reserve the rights of free citizens to resist government tyranny.
And resist we will. That is why he is in such a hurry to disarm us while he arms his government agencies to the hilt.
“We can have respect for the 2nd Amendment and confiscate all guns”-obozo
Link? Transcript?
funny thing.
the left can supposed and pursue banning weapons, a Constitutionally protected right... and the right won’t do anything.
meanwhile, the right will not dare try to remove abortion as it might inflame the left
He musta seen the report that the “ammo bubble is popping” and wants to start a new wave of panic buying. Gotta keep earning that “Gun Salesman Of The Year” award, ya know.
The Second Amendment is not about hunters and sportsmen. The Bill of Rights is there to limit the power of FedGov, which in the case of firearms means that our right to keep and bear military arms shall not be infringed. Any law or other effort designed to infringe on this fundamental, God-given, constitutionally-protected human right is illegitimate and likely to cause serious problems. I hope Obama is smarter than he acts and will not go there.
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