Posted on 01/05/2016 5:28:29 PM PST by Nachum
President Barack Obama used communist China, which has very strict gun ownership laws, as an illustration for the benefits of enhanced gun control on a populace.
Speaking at the White House on Tuesday, Obama acknowledged, “We know we can’t stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world. But maybe we can try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence.â€
“Some of you may recall at the same time that Sandy Hook happened, a disturbed person in China took a knife and tried to kill, with a knife a bunch of children in China. But most of them survived because he didn’t have access to a powerful weapon,†Obama claimed. In one knife attack in China in 2012, a 36-year old man stabbed 22 kids and an 85-year old woman.
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I posted on this within 2 minutes of that statement. I couldn’t believe my ears when he said that. Using as Communist China, who is known human rights abuser, as a model for how we should be in America. Unbelievable. he has lost all credibility as POTUS and has undermined decades of work directed at correcting China’s human rights abuses. Shameful.
Mister Obama, do you realize what you are openly admitting to? I’m not sure you do, although I have no doubt it is your true sentiment. Do you actually prefer the next president be republican, because they will be stuck with all your messes? Maybe that’s what it is.
Surprised it wasn’t N Korea as the shining example
Rapid socio-economic change in China has been accompanied by relaxation of some restrictions on basic rights, but the government remains an authoritarian one-party state. It places arbitrary curbs on expression, association, assembly, and religion; prohibits independent labor unions and human rights organizations; and maintains Party control over all judicial institutions.
The government censors the press, the Internet, print publications, and academic research, and justifies human rights abuses as necessary to preserve “social stability.†It carries out involuntary population relocation and rehousing on a massive scale, and enforces highly repressive policies in ethnic minority areas in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia. Though primary school enrollment and basic literacy rates are high, China’s education system discriminates against children and young people with disabilities. The government obstructs domestic and international scrutiny of its human rights record, insisting it is an attempt to destabilize the country.
yes, let's be more like them Barack.
This is worse than his former spokeswoman Anita Dunn, citing Mao Zedong as an ‘inspiration’. Obama references Red China AS HIS MODEL for gun control. Smith & Wesson common stock will be dividing soon into various levels of Preferred Stock, only affordable by the more exclusive financial porfolios and sector fund arrangements.
Didn’t he call the Constitution “the paper”?
yes he did. That’s what constitutional scholars call it I guess.
He is stark raving mad.
Man-Child bump for later.....
The biggest mass killing was under Mao.
And the biggest mass killing of American school kids was done with a bomb, not a firearm.
Absolutely right you are!
China murdered 50 MILLION citizens in the 20th century.
All Cruz and other conservatives have to do is run with a compelling campaign art n copy accurately tying democrats as sympathetic to marxist-socialist attrocities.
Lizard tongue Dunn was the first thing I thought of reading this. They truly believe in communism.
But no one is trying to take your guns.
A lot of really stupid effing people voted this POS into office TWICE.
Hillary has already said Obamas actions need to be “built on”. So no, not yet they haven’t. But they will.
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