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Obama Suggests US Needs Ban On Semiautomatic, Automatic Weapons
The Daily Caller ^ | 6-10-2014 | Neil Munro

Posted on 06/10/2014 4:18:39 PM PDT by servo1969

resident Barack Obama Tuesday suggested that the U.S. government should follow Australia’s example in dealing with shooting sprees, which involved strict gun bans on semiautomatic and automatic weapons.

“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,” Obama said, after he was asked for his reaction to recent shooting episodes in California and Oregon. Those laws included the confiscation of nearly all handguns and rifles.

“We can have respect for the Second Amendment and responsible hunters and sportsmen can have possess weapons,” Obama told an audience of students during a broadcast on the Tumblr website.

But the country needs “commonsense rules in place that make a dent in what’s happening,” he said, after an emotional appeal to the students and young people who were watching the Tumblr broadcast, which was advertised as a question-and-answer session about student debt.

Australia also instituted a gun buy-back program and a national registery and licensing system in the wake of the April 1996 mass shooting.

Obama’s statement is likely to cause heartburn for Democratic candidates in Kentucky, Louisiana, Arkansas and other states where gun rights are valued.

But it may also spur turnout among young Democratic voters, who are demoralized by the lousy Obama economy.

Obama’s comments on guns came after the host asked him about the recent shootings, and Obama replied with an unusually emotional pitch.

“My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.

“We’re the only developed country on Earth where this happens. … Our level of gun violence is off the charts. There’s no advanced developing country on Earth that would put up with this,” he said.

Obama dismissed the argument that shootings are not the fault of the mental health of Americans. ”The U.S. does not have a monopoly on crazy people, it’s not the only country that has psychosis, and yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyplace else,” Obama said.

Obama did refer to the Second Amendment, but didn’t describe the limits that it imposes on government. “We have a Second Amendment, we have historically respected gun rights, I respect gun rights, but the idea that we could not get a background check [into law] … makes no sense,” he complained.

“I’ve been in Washington, and most things don’t surprise me, [but] the fact that 20 six-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town could not do anything about it, was stunning to me,” he said about the Newtown shooting in December 2012.

“If public opinion does not demand a change in Congress, it will not change,” he said.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; barackhusseinobama; batfe; fraud; fubo; guncontrol; molonlabe; obama; scandals; secondamendment; treason; tyranny; tyrant
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To: servo1969
“My greatest frustration so far is that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people you know who can do just unbelievable damage,” he said.

Since most of those are his sons and daughters, I can see why he became emotional.

Obviously, we should logically begin by banning gun ownership to all of his sons and daughters.

Paradoxically, that alone may solve the vexing so-called conundrum about guns running off by theirselves and shooting people.!

101 posted on 06/10/2014 8:53:02 PM PDT by publius911 ( Politicians come and go... but the (union) bureaucracy lives and grows forever.)
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To: servo1969
Our level of gun violence is off the charts.

The murder rate is actually the lowest it has been in about 50 years. It is much much lower than it was in the 1990's, before law abiding men and women started carrying concealed semi-automatic pistols concealed.


102 posted on 06/10/2014 9:05:20 PM PDT by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Chode

That seems to be the only reason that England aint overrun by the muzzis is because of the so called hooligans.


103 posted on 06/10/2014 11:01:26 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: HANG THE EXPENSE
100% sure isn't Parliament
104 posted on 06/11/2014 4:53:19 AM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Comment Not Approved

When I said in my earlier post that any and all action is justified, I was referring to Obama. When he finally crosses the line and starts suspending the Second Amendment for “public safety” then he will be able to justify suspending any and all Constitutional rights because of public safety. The 2nd Amendment would be his starting point because of the easy emotional appeal he can make using tragedy such as the Newtown shootings. We all know it will be the starting point for the dictator but certainly not the end. I agree with those who say that this is a red line.


105 posted on 06/11/2014 6:57:10 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: servo1969

After the BLM’s adventure with swat teams, military style equipment, and weapons that would make foreign nations envious, and since that adventure was directed at a plain old American citizen, there is no way that freedom loving Americans should trust any governmental agent or agency. They are armed to the teeth.

And they want to take your guns.

Wake up America.


106 posted on 06/11/2014 7:01:04 AM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: servo1969
“Australia had a mass shooting [in 1996] similar to Columbine and Newtown, and just said, ‘That’s it, we’re not seeing that again,’ and basically imposed very severe tough gun laws and they haven’t had a mass shooting since,”

So how, pray tell, was the Port Arthur Massacre similar to Columbine and Newtown. It did not take place at a school. It did not involve a student, nor was it particularly aimed at students. The shooter was supposedly someone who did not have full mental capacity, yet hit most of his victims with head shots in rapid fire in a restaurant.

There are questions about all three events, in terms of who, how many, if the accused (and deceased, presumably) shooters were the only ones, or whether they had some help.

There is a distinct possibility that all shooters were getting help with mental problems, including medication.

and then there is rampant speculation that all three events were false flag events triggered or conducted (or even simulated) to push legislation to diminish the ability of the respective populations to own firearms--maybe that's the similarity he was referring to...

Eliminate private firearms because of a few whackjobs?

We have had a higher percentage of Presidents abuse the power of their Office than gun owners abuse their RKBA, maybe we should eliminate the Office by that logic.

107 posted on 06/11/2014 8:23:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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Can’t find a written transcript, but found the video at http://whitehouse.tumblr.com/post/88412719118/in-case-you-missed-it-president-obama-answers-your starting about 39 minutes in.


108 posted on 06/11/2014 11:56:19 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun" - Obama, setting RoE with his opposition)
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To: servo1969

And when it was revealed by Biden earlier that there have been something like only 57 prosecutions for perjury on the millions of gun forms (ATF Form 4473), once again we see the call for more and more laws and bans when the basic “enforcement” hasn’t been done with existing laws and regulations. Lawlessness leads to more lawlessness.


109 posted on 06/11/2014 4:49:58 PM PDT by Skybird
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