President Obama Explains Why Making It Harder For "We, The People" To Get Guns Will Make Everyone Safer
Amid threats from various Republican Congressmen, soaring pre-emptive gun sales, and a majority of Americans (56%) believe that if more Americans carried concealed weapons the country would be safer; President Obama is set today to formally announce his executive action new gun-control measures.
In the wake of mass shootings at schools and other public places, some have argued that the shootings could have been stopped if any of the victims had carried weapons. Others argue that having more citizens carrying weapons can lead to more violence and accidental shooting.
Obama plans to continue the weeklong push to promote the gun effort with a prime time, televised town hall discussion Thursday and it is sure to be prominent in Obama’s final State of the Union address to Congress next week. At the centerpiece of Obama's package of executive actions (which aims to curb what he’s described as a scourge of gun violence in the U.S) is a broader definition of gun dealers that the administration hopes will expand the number of gun sales subject to background checks.
Live Feed (Obama is due to speak at 1140ET)...
The government’s own numbers tell us that 3.8 people per 100,000 in the US die each year from non-suicide gun violence. Terror-related deaths are effectively 0.0.
Meanwhile, 11.6 per 100,000 die in traffic related deaths. A whopping 169.8 people per 100,000 die from heart disease.
As a gentle reminder, when another socialist utopia (Venezuela) imposed gun control laws, violent crime actually increased. And Caracas is now one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
What happens next? courtesy of the NYT:
The chart shows that while the soaring gun sales are the effect, the cause is simple: president Obama.
The same president who today at 11:40am will finally reveal just what, after many delays, his executive action(s) on gun control will be.
The concern is that with one more year under Obama's term, gun sales over the next 12 months are certain to surge to new all time highs as Obama's crusade to crush the second amendment slowly picks up steam in order to cement his "anti-gun" legacy, and as the population rushes to buy as many as it can before Obama makes such purchases illegal.
It's not all bad news though: gun makers could not have asked for a better president, as the following headline just confirmed:
- SMITH & WESSON SEES 3Q ADJ. EPS 39C-41C, SAW 27C-29C
As of this moment Smith and Wesson is trading at an all time high.
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The only place I have ever been harassed about carrying a weapon has been gun stores. Gander Mountain being the most recent. (right after making a purchase)
He just talked about gun control and Obamacare in the same sentence. I have BINGO!!!!
Obama is just trying to protect you white folks:
http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031914-1...
In 2012, nearly two-thirds, or 64 percent, of deaths from firearm violence were suicides, compared to 57 percent of deaths in 2006. The growth in suicide is especially prominent among white males beginning in early adulthood.
God, I hate stupid people
Sure. Suuuure. Whatever you say.
http://youtu.be/qG4W_Kq8v6g
Why should we be worried about suicide? Suicide is not something forced one someone, but a deep rooted problem with an individual.
Perhaps making life worth living would help here, rather than trying to remove all guns, sharp objects, long drops, noxious gasses etc from reach. Things that would make life worth living would be the ability to earn and save money without it being inflated away faster than you can earn it, allowing bubbles in the necessities of life like housing and education to burst instead of burdening another generation with an impossible level of debt to service. Simple things that would actually mean a small number of people lose out on a easy gravy train of unearned riches, so yeah, lets tighten gun laws as thats way easier.
Heston ..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp8Q7biFHoY
F@@k you failed POTUS. I refuse to comply with your interpretation of your flawed ideas.
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS when you elect a DUMBocrat!
Let's face it. People are only against president Obama and the banning of guns and evisceration of the bill of rights because they're racists. #blacklivesmatter #endwhitepeople
How do you post and give an adress at the same time, you lying sack of feces.
My only response to you (As if your idiotic post even deserves it) Molon Labe!
I guess detecting sarcasm is above your pay grade.
Yes, I was annoyed and reacted. My apologies to the poster but the challenge stands.
why do we have to wait until Hillary! gets into office for an investigation into area 51? /sarc
Theres a few people whincing at his speech.... now he's crying.
Given the level of social instability. Rising poverty. Large poverty black holes. A government and it's police, spies and generals totally at war with the tax payers. The rising level of adult mental illness and birth defects of the brain. How are we supposed to give up the only guarantee of our personal safety. Any cop will tell you that they are not there to prevent crime or to make your family safe, they are there to persue and arrest law breakers. In short, a law needs breaking before a cop will step in. So your daughter needs to be raped first, then it is a matter for law enforcement.
In fact, law enforcement is cleary the tool of the elite ruling class. Used more often than not to shut down protest by citizens and tax payers.
Obama and the Liberals want your guns, so you have no hpe left. Republicans in the elite would be just as happy for Obama to take your guns. The elites knows no party, they ARE THE PARTY.
This POS Obama gives blacks a bad name.
He's not doing any favors for the white part of him either.
gotta keep guns outa whiteys hands and into black gang associates hands where dey b safe
I'm sorry folks, no guns, but I have to cut my press conference short and leave with my heavily-armed security contingent so I can go plan another hospital bombing.
Haven't we had enough tyranny from POTUS, who still believes Americans listen or even respect him? His latest attempt at violating our Constitutional rights may be the straw that moves we Americans to remove him from office before his term expires.
Obama is just a puppet.
Removing him will change nothing.
Those in power (ain't talking political parties) are consolidating their hold on power.
125 MIL citizens owning 350 MIL guns don't buy a word you're saying mr O'linsky.. On wait: when you're done doing 12 more months of identity politics vote buying, half the Americans will posses half a billion guns, while 90% of gun homicides will continue to occur in 4 already 'gun free' zones of Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC and New Orleans, in race-related and drug-dealing attacks.
Thank you! Now I know he was weeping for Chicago... What a putz...
The San Bernardino shooters were 3 tall white males according to 3 different witnesses, but they assassinate an ethnic couple to blame for the murders (dead people can't talk). Of course they practiced at a local gun range, that's what mass surveillance is for, knowing who to frame.
Keeping guns away from the US Government and their agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA, HS, BATFE, Blackwater Mercenaries, etc.), will make citizens safer.
San Bernardino and Paris black ops to intensify Syrian involvement.
Larry, Curly, and Mo.... in heels I presume?
you look gullible enough to suck up whatever you're told by the powers that be
makes you feel nice and cosy within your bigotry, they count on it
http://www.globalresearch.ca/eyewitness-to-san-bernardino-terror-attack-...
You are one of them, clearly.
Blah, blah blah. His were the rantings of a diseased mind, endemic in most all liberals. A bigot for God's sake... These people will do and say anything.
you must be a brain dead redneck from Texas
Maybe an executive order to not allow the attorney general to run guns to Mexican drug gangs. I'm sure he could get that signed Fast and Furious.
Hang on a minute, why don't we ensure all leaders, in a position of stewardship , pass regular quarterly psychiatric background checks. Wouldn't THAT be the best solution, to minimise world killing of civillians, on a national and international level ?
Actually, Tyler, the boom in gun sales clearly began before Obama's election, thanks to immigration from low-IQ countries Dubya did nothing to control, preferring to spend his presidency doing the dirty work of his family friends the House of Saud.
Jihad and unsecure borders have done wonders for S&W's bottom line. Assuming they're still allowed to sell to the public at all, America's gun manufacturers have an even brighter future ahead under America's first openly Muslim president, Huma Abedin.
Either the definition of "Boom" escapes you or your numbers are skewed but you are being less than forthcoming with your assertion.
POTUS working the Oscar angle, nice camera work.... I have to go blow my nose I'm all choked up.
So when he says guns is he talking about penis?
love guns!
I wonder if any of the revellers in the bataclan in Paris had their minds changed about the wisdom of gun ownership?
That sort of slaughter will never happen in somewhere like Texas, it is just a matter of time before it happens again in Europe, sadly quite a few times I guess before the lesson is learnt.
The only people that fear law abiding gun owners are criminals and those in power who intend to destroy us.
The Progressive National Socialists are deathly afraid of gun owners because their race war on White People is about to backfire in a big way.
Actually we have a new gun control measure we would like to be adopted. Anyone whose house is being burglarized under any circumstance has the right to kill the criminal without retreating and without the criminal using deadly force and with absolutely no repurcussions; that is a great gun control law. We figure it would also be a great tax saver law because so many more criminals would be killed you would not have to pay for their trials and imprisonment.
Progressive Nazi's...there, fixed it for you...
The Gun Lobby is protecting us from the Money Lobby. We too have "unfinished business" and that it to impeach Obama out of office before he does anymore harm. And short of that, the House of Representatives can override any executive order. Put the pressure on your local congress-person. That's the only power you have.
If you want a gun, a big one, just check the ' I'm a moderate Muslim ' box, on the gun license form ?
;) :)
# Joke.
Fcuk this knigger!
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2016/01/america-doesnt-have-gun-problem-...
In short the problem is not law abiding whites in flyover country. The problem is with DEMOCRAT CONTROLLED inner cities I.e. nigger gangs.
I think they should start with Chicago. Disarm every gangbanger in the city. Or try to. And then wait a couple of weeks before moving to other cities. If even one shooting occurs within the wait period, the entire gun-grab program should be declared a failure and called off. The idea that all guns can be confiscated is rediculous at best and won't succeed on any level. Just like FDR's confiscation of gold: only about 30 percent of the known gold in the country was confiscated. In this case, it will be a much smaller percentage. Guns will go underground, literally, and will still be there if the gummit decides to do stupid things.
so when is the white house becoming a " gun free zone "
regulating sugar consumption would save more people than any gun control legislation. considering the sugar companies know this yet continue to try to convince people to harm themselves with sugar, they should be charged with attempted murder and sugar consumption should be regulated like gun purchases......as should everything else that kills people, like taking a bath.
Lord Obongo must be in end-stage AIDs... does he think his open border policy restricts the importation of illegal drugs or Democrapper voting parasites... or radical muslim terrorists? Then, logic should tell this insipid gay clown, that the importation of unregistered guns, if there becomes a market for them... would flourish. It is going to be a LONG year, under President Lancelot Soetero Link.
Although this has probably been said, it needs to again. When the government makes any commodity illegal, be pot or liquor or guns, it is always followed by violence and a huge price run-up with no appreciable supply contraction. The only plus would be the gun dealers will start delivering to your doorstep...
The confiscation of guns in America would be far more difficult than the deportation of all illegals and muslims.