Posted on 07/28/2015 8:41:13 AM PDT by Perseverando
When Obama spoke to BBC last week he stressed his frustration over not being able to secure more gun control and suggested that the guns outweigh terrorism as a threat to Americans’ safety.
Obama’s exact words: “If you look at the number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it’s less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it’s in the tens of thousands.”
In the lead up to this statement, Obama mentioned “mass killings” with guns but did not mention mass killings or attempted mass killings in which those holding the guns were jihadists.
He said, “The United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws.” However, it is not that America does not have gun control. Rather, it is that Americans increasingly see that gun control does not stop criminals from acting out their criminality, therefore support for more gun laws has waned.
For example, the push to expand background checks to cover more types of sales had a lot of momentum nearly three years ago, then Americans noticed that those behind the high profile, mass killings were passing background checks to get their guns. Since Sandy Hook alone (December 2012), attackers and alleged attackers like John Russell Houser (Lafayette), Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez (Chattanooga), Dylann Roof (Charleston), Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi (Garland), Jared and Amanda Miller (Las Vegas), Elliot Rodger (Santa Barabara), Ivan Lopez (Fort Hood 2014), Darion Marcus Aguilar (Maryland mall), Karl Halverson Pierson (Arapahoe High School), Paul Ciancia (LAX), Andrew John Engeldinger (Minneapolis), Aaron Alexis (DC Navy Yard), and Tennis Melvin Maynard (West Virginia), acquired guns via a background check. So what benefit do Americans gain from expanding such checks?
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Actually, CONSERVATIVES are a greater threat...
to elitists’ power,
than Islamic terrorism.
That’s what he meant.
And doubly so because they are armed.
Obviously there’s something they want to do to us that they can’t while we’re still armed.
The quotaboy is an ignorant, lying ass.
The White House should be a gun-free zone and all of the Capitol Police and Secret Service should be disarmed to help prevent gun violence.
If guns are so bad, why wouldn't they be more dangerous than global warming, the greatest threat to mankind since WWII.
/s
We simply MUST get rid of these guns that wake up and go out and kill people all by themselves. THAT would be common-sense gun control!
We better take this sheet seriously.
What he means to do is take them away from the law abiding white folks. The urban gang bangers will be de facto exempt.
Make no mistake. It’s all about the eradication of the white middle class. And while they personally won’t be killing and looting the whites, their fingerprints will be all over it.
Actually, BO, a 3rd world president, is the biggest threat to Americans, period.
That's next.
Certain demographics in America have proven themselves incapable of civilized behavior.
True. I have been saying this for years. This is the needed gun control above all else.
So what are you going to outlaw now? Liberals? Abortions?
No? Then GO SCREW YOURSELF, you useless poodle sniffing homo freak.
Did he even say the word “Islam” or “Islamic?”
0bama has sold millions of gunz to the law abiding. He has removed less than none from his Sons of Barack, big city thugs.
This is a DICTATOR telling everyone exactly what his plans are. They all do it. Every time the people fail to listen and fail to believe and then are subsequently “surprised” when tragedy happens. That trial balloon about a third term should not be dismissed out of hand either.
Progressive DEMOCRATS are a Greater Threat Than GUNS or Terrorism
More people died in car accidents, but we don’t think people having cars is the problem.
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