Posted on 06/17/2014 4:21:28 PM PDT by richardb72
President Obama just can't seem to help himself. Over and over again, he makes exaggerated or false claims about guns and crime.
Last year Obama kept asserting the bogus numbers such as “40 percent of all gun purchases take place without a background check.” Besides the study being based on a tiny survey it was started before the Federal background check law went into effect. Moreover, the 40 percent figure referred to all transfers, not just sales, and the vast majority of transfers took place within families through gifts and inheritances. Then, for good measure, Obama added an extra 4 percentage points to increase the number from 36 to 40 percent.
Unfortunately, this past Tuesday Obama was at it again. He lamented:
"My biggest frustration has been that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We are the only developed country on earth where this happens."
Does Obama not consider Norway a developed country? After all, Anders Breivik shot 69 people to death and wounded 110 others. That attack holds the record for a single-person shooting spree.
Is Germany a developed country? While the president focused on school shootings, he never acknowledged that two of the three worst K-12 school shootings have occurred in Germany since 2000, not in the United States. These were:
-- Erfurt, Germany on April 26, 2002: a former student killed 18 at a secondary school.
-- Winnenden, Germany, March 11, 2009: a 17-year-old former student killed 15 people, including nine students and three teachers.
A partial list of mass shootings in Europe from 2000 to early 2010 is available here.
Obama also claimed: . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Well to be accurate he’s not making up facts he’s making up lies. But that is what he does best. Lie like a dog.
0bama lies. Always.
If he says so it must be fact. That’s how Community Organizers operate.
Facts are funny things. you can’t make them up
Looks like Der Kanklefrau is using the Obama method as well.
Hillary Clinton: We can’t let gun rights advocates ‘terrorize the majority’
Mr. Obongo is full of crap!
barack,
Since you’re talking about statistics, how about considering another fact .....
“These statistics reveal large racial disparities in homicide rates due to gun violence; the rate for black males is 2.4 times as high as that for Hispanic males, and 15.3 times as high as that for non-Hispanic white males.”
Maybe you ought to consider truth?
Please. Watch your language.
That's Die Kanklefrau.
Obama lies and stupid people lap it up.
Then they hang the RACIST label on anyone who points out the lies.
We are doomed.
It’s all about registration and eventual confiscation with these guys.
Heaven forbid that you inherit Grandpas M1 Garand without the Gov knowing about registering it and taxing it.
When has the lyin king ever said a fact?
When he said he was going to bankrupt coal fired generators.
With his SS the EPA, he is trying to do it.
He owes his supporters.
It is ALL about money. The Chicago way.
Background checks do no good and cause a lot of harm. Anyone who wants a gun for criminal purposes can find one legal or not.
Background checks keep a lot of people who should not be denied, to be denied anyway.
There will always be enough guns to supply the criminal elements even in such countries as England.
Obama's a Liar.
Ban’em, ban’em all...go ahead. Do what’cha gotta do.
Take that damn pen and phone and get-r-done Barry.
His push for gun control has been an epic failure and that must certainly complicate his plans for America.
Will he issue an Executive Order to register all private transfers based on the recent Supreme Court ruling?
Kagan opined that the record of ownership helped law enforcement solve crimes.
He could use that questionable logic to run all private and gun show sales through the FBI check.
he would be violating federal law if he did. Add another impeachable offense to his growing list.
18 U.S. Code § 926 - Rules and regulations
No such rule or regulation prescribed after the date of the enactment of the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act may require that records required to be maintained under this chapter or any portion of the contents of such records, be recorded at or transferred to a facility owned, managed, or controlled by the United States or any State or any political subdivision thereof, nor that any system of registration of firearms, firearms owners, or firearms transactions or dispositions be established. Nothing in this section expands or restricts the Secretary’s [1] authority to inquire into the disposition of any firearm in the course of a criminal investigation.
I think that was deliberate. Most likely appropriate. “Das” would work too.
:)
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