Posted on 03/23/2021 10:39:48 AM PDT by John W
Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday called for stricter gun laws following the mass shooting in Colorado, bemoaning what he called a national tolerance for "these kinds of random, senseless acts."
Obama said in a statement that he and former first lady Michelle Obama are grieving with the families of the victims of Monday's massacre in Boulder, but also said they "are also feeling a deep, familiar outrage" for these types of tragedies.
The statement by the former president came shortly before President Joe Biden publicly commented on the shooting, which took place at grocery store and left 10 dead, including a police officer.
"It is long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of gun violence to do so. It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence," Obama said. "But we can make it harder for those with hate in their hearts to buy weapons of war."
"We can overcome opposition by cowardly politicians and the pressure of a gun lobby that opposes any limit on the ability of anyone to assemble an arsenal. We can, and we must," he said.
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Sit and spin on it Barry.
Obama is an idiot.
How exactly will those unspecified restrictions stop anything, Bambi?
MOFO BO
He’s on the top ten list if the SHTF
As if we didn't already suspect it.
Yeah random acts of JIHAD
FUBO!
I suspect this is one of the Obama imported “refugees”. What we actually need is common sense Jihadi control and more guns carried by citizens.
The Taqiyya Towelhead weighs in on the exploits of his Musloid brutha, taking a break from his day job of Queen of Man’s Country...
“It is long past time for those with the power to fight this epidemic of Muslim violence to do so. It will take time to root out the disaffection, racism and misogyny that fuels so many of these senseless acts of violence,”
There ya go, Barry. Fixed it for you. Firearms ownership is protected by the Second Amendment; admission of jihadis from Syria isn’t protected by the First.
What a suprise, the name of the shooter was Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa!
Right! That will stop people like this guy! (sarc)
Good idea, Barry. Regale us with your brilliance. Which of your gun control proposals would’ve prevented this?
We need strict prohibition on muzzies.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3944423/posts?page=66#66
Chicago says “What?”
1:) there were 364 people murdered with a rifle in 2019. There were 6,368 murders committed with a handgun in 2019. there were 1,476 people murdered with a knife.
2) nationally, black males, while representing only ~6.75% of the U.S. population, commit ~50% of all US murders and this is why America has a higher incidence of gun violence than other advanced nations.
3) California, the US state with, arguably, the strictest gun control laws in the country, leads the nation in total homicides and mass shootings. Shouldn't they at least be #2 with all that gun control?
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4) Britain banned handguns and the homicide rate increased.
5) 68% of all gun murders occur in just 5% of US counties and those counties tend to be heavily democrat and black. the murders tend to be further concentrated into well known neighborhoods that are even more democrat and more black.
How observant of him. And erudite. The narcissist just can’t help himself. Did Bush or Clinton or Carter speak?
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