"I think somehow — and there are a lot of historical reasons for this — gun ownership in this country became an ideological issue, and a partisan issue, in ways that it shouldn't be...It has become sort of a proxy for arguments about our culture wars, you know? Urban versus rural. Race is always an element in these issues. Issues of class and education, and so forth.
"Instead of just taking a very practical approach, like we do, let's say, for example, with car safety, where we say, 'All right, we got a bunch of accidents. Let's have seat belts. And let's make cars safer. And let's engineer our roads so that we prevent them'...Instead of thinking about it in a very pragmatic way, we end up really arguing about identity, and emotion, and all kinds of stuff that does not have to do with keeping our children safe."
These are measured, calculated, weaponized words, structured and delivered in a manner to TRIGGER normal Americans and provide talking points for low-information statists.
I'm not saying Obama came up with these words, though he is slick and he is very skilled at dividing Americans. Frankly, I think he's a party girl. He spent most of his 8 years dividing the country with segregationist speech while, legislatively, signing Obamacare. Yes, that was bad. But he could have done a LOT worse, especially when he controlled the Executive AND Legislative branches. But he's just not into that kind of boring stuff: he was more interested in being a star and ingesting his stardom.
At the same time, self-absorbed party girls have a mask and it slips every now and then. Indeed, Obama said one of his biggest frustrations as President was not enacting enough gun control.
If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I’ve been most frustrated and most stymied, it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common sense gun safety laws.
I don't think these are his handler's words. That clearly bugs him.
As such, the way to respond to these calculated words isn't with a point-counterpoint debate, but to laugh at him.
Obama, you FAILED. You had Pelosi and your pen and you STILL couldn't break through the will of America on self-defense, protection, and firearms. Your SCOTUS pics are useless on drawing other justices away from the Second Amendment, even Roberts. Your eight years in the White House has become a standard for how to fritter and waste power when you got it. Heck, Trump - ya know, the guy you consider beneath you? - got more done in 4 years without a fawning media and a cheering administrative state, than you did in 8.
In a nutshell, you lost on guns because you chose entertainment over substance. Now, you're a rich puppet for people with a better vocabulary and propaganda skills. Americans' strengthened resolve on guns coming out of your Presidency is a shining monument to your core value - self-love.
And that is really funny.
