Posted on 07/18/2015 4:13:54 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
NEARLY three years ago, in the days after the mass killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, President Obama went to Newtown, Conn., to speak at a vigil for the victims. He spoke movingly, and seemed to embody the nation’s outrage and its determination to reduce the number of people killed with guns in America. “Do not lose heart,” he told the families of the victims. He said he would use “whatever power this office holds.”
He has not done that. He tried one lever of presidential power — proposing legislation. When that didn’t work, the president failed to move the other levers in a meaningful way.
For more than a year, we and fellow religious leaders across the nation have worked to persuade President Obama to use what we believe is the most powerful tool government has in this area: its purchasing power. The federal government is the nation’s top gun buyer. It purchases more than a quarter of the guns and ammunition sold legally in the United States. State and local law enforcement agencies also purchase a large share. Major gun manufacturers depend on these taxpayer-funded purchases. For the government to keep buying guns from these companies — purchases meant to ensure public safety — without making demands for change is to squander its leverage.
Some of the leading brands of handguns purchased by the government — Glock, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, Beretta, Colt, Sturm, Ruger & Company — are also leading brands used in crimes. Among the brands of handguns recovered by the Chicago Police Department at crime scenes between January 2012 and October 2013, all six of these companies ranked in the top 11. . .
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Wow....it took four NYT stooges to write this trash piece. Four brains combined and not an intelligent phrase in the whole article.
The "brain trust" ... By DAVID K. BRAWLEY, OTIS MOSS III, DAVID BENKE and JOEL MOSBACHER
I wish I could write drivel and get paid for it.
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I’ve got a feeling that is what Ron Brown was so scared of.
Clinton intended to start full blown race riots and there would end up being wholesale slaughter of blacks all to get B Clinton reelected.
I’ve also got a feeling with this Mexican drug lord prison escape we’re getting ready to see Fast & Furious guns being used in cross border raids.
Personally I don’t believe Trump wants to be president any more than Perot wanted to be president in 1992.
With Perot it was about getting B Clinton elected.
With Trump I believe it’s all about getting Hillary into the WH.
The left has done everything it can to gin up civil unrest/discontent with whites and blacks.
The one group missing from the dems orchestrated civil unrest/discontent was Hispanics and Trump is now providing as Bill Ayers put it “a spark to ignite the flame”.
Oh so conveniently we now have a drug lord threatening violence for speaking out against illegals.
I might be wrong, but I just don’t believe everything is falling in place for violence between, whites, blacks and Hispanics just by coincidence.
Someone is planning this and IMO that someone is Hillary.
She may be but I still believe Jeb will be the GOP candidate and will win. I also believe the election is already decided and the voting process is just a dog and pony show for the proles.
I also believe much stronger gun control will come from Jeb like in Australia or England, not because Jeb is smart or clever but because he will do what he is told.
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