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Obama: Gun Lobby "Ginning Up Fear" That Government Will Take Away All Your Guns
Real Clear Politics ^ | 1/14/13 | staff

Posted on 01/14/2013 12:33:07 PM PST by Nachum

PRESIDENT OBAMA: Well, I think, for example, how we are gathering data, for example, on guns that fall into the hands of criminals and how we track that more effectively -- there may be some steps that we can take administratively, as opposed -- through legislation.

As far as people lining up and purchasing more guns, you know, I think that we’ve seen for some time now that those who oppose any common-sense gun control or gun safety measures have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government’s about to take all your guns away. And you know, that -- there’s probably an economic element to that. It obviously is good for business.

But I think that, you know, those of us who look at this problem have repeatedly said that responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship -- they don’t have anything to worry about. The issue here is not whether or not we believe in the Second Amendment.

The issue is, are there some sensible steps that we can take to make sure that somebody like the individual in Newtown can’t walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children in a -- in a shockingly rapid fashion? And surely we can do something about that.

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KEYWORDS: banglist; ginning; gun; guncontrol; lobby; obama; secondamendment
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To: kevkrom

The only fear being “ginned up” here is amongst Democrats who plan to stand for re-election in 2014...


21 posted on 01/14/2013 12:55:01 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nachum
... ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government’s about to take all your guns away.

See what he did there? I saw.

22 posted on 01/14/2013 12:58:25 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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To: Nachum

“those who oppose any common-sense gun control or gun safety measures have a pretty effective way of ginning up fear on the part of gun owners that somehow the federal government’s about to take all your guns away.”

In other words, we are only planning to take some of your guns away, you know just a few this month, then a few more next month and a few more the next month and on and on, till eventually we have taken them all away. But don’t worry, it isn’t that we are about to take them all away immediately.


23 posted on 01/14/2013 1:00:04 PM PST by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Nachum
Basically what this piece of shit is saying is that they only want to take away the guns that they deem are “assault weapons”, aka military facsimiles, and large capacity magazines, but you can keep your gun for “protection” or “hunting”, just not what would be effective in fighting a tyrannical government.

Never forget, that is what this is all about, removing effective weapons from the hands of citizens.

If these weapons are good enough for law enforcement, they are absolutely good enough for civilians. In no way should law enforcement agencies have “superior firepower” over law abiding civilians, and although it's already a fact that they do, that fact should be reversed, IMO. Criminals will always have access to weapons that equal or surpass those in the hands of our government, and to deny the same for our civilians is Unconstitutional, IMO.

Since the courts will likely rule against us, we either prepare for our role as slaves to the government or prepare to exercise our second amendment rights, RIGHT NOW, to put an end to this slow boiling that our so-called representatives are putting us through.

24 posted on 01/14/2013 1:00:20 PM PST by Pox (Good Night. I expect more respect tomorrow.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Yep


25 posted on 01/14/2013 1:00:30 PM PST by Dawgreg (Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.)
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To: Nachum
Well, I think, for example, how we are gathering data, for example, on guns that fall into the hands of criminals and how we track that more effectively

First, find the ones that YOU gave to Mexican drug cartels for use in crime, then we can think about talking about talking.
26 posted on 01/14/2013 1:01:01 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("C'est la vie" say the old folks, it goes to show you never can tell. -- Chuck Berry)
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To: CSM
In other words, we are only planning to take some of your guns away, you know just a few this month, then a few more next month and a few more the next month and on and on, till eventually we have taken them all away. But don’t worry, it isn’t that we are about to take them all away immediately.

The honest thing to do is for them to just state they are taking away the second amendment. But libs have never prided themselves on their honesty. Just the opposite, in fact.
27 posted on 01/14/2013 1:03:46 PM PST by CottonBall
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To: Nachum

Do you reckon Obama might be moving in the direction of a “Final Solution” for all us “Bitter Clingers”?


28 posted on 01/14/2013 1:05:18 PM PST by dagogo redux (A whiff of primitive spirits in the air, harbingers of an impending descent into the feral.)
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To: Nachum

When government agents can no longer burst into my home and gun down my family in a shockingly rapid fashion, only then will I consider any limitations or restrictions.


29 posted on 01/14/2013 1:05:55 PM PST by Jim Hill
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To: Nachum

When government agents can no longer burst into my home and gun down my family in a shockingly rapid fashion, only then will I consider any limitations or restrictions.


30 posted on 01/14/2013 1:06:21 PM PST by Jim Hill
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To: Nachum
“Obama: Gun Lobby “Ginning Up Fear” That Government Will Take Away All Your Guns”

Guess what O’a$$hole, you aren't going to take ANY of mine!!

31 posted on 01/14/2013 1:12:34 PM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Nachum

No, Obama and his commie buddies are ginning up the fear. The gun industry is just profiting from the fear Obama has created.


32 posted on 01/14/2013 1:14:31 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Nachum

How dare you accuse me of taking your guns as I am preparing to take your guns! What a Mary.


33 posted on 01/14/2013 1:18:34 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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To: Nachum

“But I think that, you know, those of us who look at this problem have repeatedly said that responsible gun owners, people who have a gun for protection, for hunting, for sportsmanship — they don’t have anything to worry about. The issue here is not whether or not we believe in the Second Amendment.”

Mr. President, if responsible gun owners do not have anything to worry about then tell me sir, why are we to be punished for cowardly acts of a few? So disingenuous....

By the way, for the record, I have no firearms.

Can’t afford them now.


34 posted on 01/14/2013 1:21:20 PM PST by bbernard
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To: Cyber Liberty

We won’t take ALL of your guns. Just the ones that equalize you against us.....

That’s what he really means.


35 posted on 01/14/2013 1:23:33 PM PST by bbernard
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To: Nachum
Gun Lobby "Ginning Up Fear" That Government Will Take Away All Your Guns...

Which is silly, of course. 0bama's merry little band only wants to take away half, register the rest for future confiscation, and tax ammunition into oblivion. But take away all the guns? Not at all, little man, now just go back to sleep.

You can always tell when they're lying when they start parsing this stuff so carefully. Or when they're moving their lips. Same thing.

36 posted on 01/14/2013 1:25:58 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Nachum

Emanuel gives insight to gun control in D.C., makes plans for Chicago

VIDEO:

Read more: http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/20579657/emanuel-biden-meet-with-leaders-to-discuss-gun-control-measures#ixzz2HzFfJKAU


37 posted on 01/14/2013 1:28:37 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: dagogo redux
Do you reckon Obama might be moving in the direction of a “Final Solution” for all us “Bitter Clingers”?

Bill Ayers and the boys chatted pretty openly about that back in their bomb-throwing days.


38 posted on 01/14/2013 1:30:47 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Nachum
"...make sure that somebody like the individual in Newtown can’t walk into a school and gun down a bunch of children..."

Just who are the anti-Second-Amendment folks after?


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39 posted on 01/14/2013 1:31:32 PM PST by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: bbernard

You saw what he did there, too. That weasel.


40 posted on 01/14/2013 1:32:41 PM PST by Cyber Liberty (Obama considers the Third World morally superior to the United States.)
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