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Team Sergeant
03-09-2015, 12:15
He's either a f**king moron (of which I believe he really is) or he knows for a fact he's lying.
Whichever, he's making jimmy carter look like Einstein.
Bottom line you incompetent moron, you will not ever take away our Second Amendment Rights, but you can sure try.
obama and the wookie, the greatest gun and ammo salesmen the world has ever seen.
Obama: ‘Important’ Second Amendment Responsible for High Homicide Rates
by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 2015
Speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6, President Obama said the “Second Amendment … is important,” that it is “part of our culture” and “part of who were are.” Then he quickly added, “But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries–by like a mile.”
So, the Second Amendment is important but…
Moreover, Obama hinted that the individual right to bear arms–the very right protected by the Second Amendment–is the result of a Supreme Court interpretation. On June 22, Breitbart News reported that The Washington Post espoused this same liberal talking point, claiming that the Supreme Court created an individual right to keep and bear arms via the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision.
In other words, prior to 2008, there was no individual right to keep and bear arms. It wasn’t what our Founding Fathers intended and it wasn’t what generation upon generation of Americans from 1791 to 2008 believed and lived by. It’s all based on a decision by a group of justices.
In his speech, aired on C-SPAN, Obama said:
We have a long tradition of gun rights and gun ownership in this country. The Second Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean the people have the right to bear arms. There are a lot of law-abiding, responsible gun owners who use it for protection or sport. They handle their weapons properly. There are traditions of families passing down [hunting] from father to son, or daughter … and that is important; that’s part of who we are. But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized nations–by like a mile.
And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready, availability of firearms, particularly handguns.
However, the gun control lobby’s relentless claim that America’s homicide rate is so much higher than other industrialized countries breaks down under scrutiny.
For example, in August 2013, Breitbart News reported on a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy which showed that the murder rate in heavily gun-controlled Russia was approximately 20.52 per 100,000 people in 2002. A high point for America was 6.6 per 100,000 people in 1993, and that rate fell to 3.2 per 100,000 by 2011, after the number of privately owned guns in America went from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million in 2009.
So, 20.52 per 100,000 people are murdered in Russia versus America’s 6.6 per 100,000–later to be 3.2 per 100,000–yet, according to President Obama, America’s murder rate is, “like a mile” higher than that of other industrialized countries.
Guymullins
03-09-2015, 12:44
He's either a f**king moron (of which I believe he really is) or he knows for a fact he's lying.
Whichever, he's making jimmy carter look like Einstein.
Bottom line you incompetent moron, you will not ever take away our Second Amendment Rights, but you can sure try.
obama and the wookie, the greatest gun and ammo salesmen the world has ever seen.
Obama: ‘Important’ Second Amendment Responsible for High Homicide Rates
by AWR Hawkins9 Mar 2015
Speaking at Benedict College in South Carolina on March 6, President Obama said the “Second Amendment … is important,” that it is “part of our culture” and “part of who were are.” Then he quickly added, “But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries–by like a mile.”
So, the Second Amendment is important but…
Moreover, Obama hinted that the individual right to bear arms–the very right protected by the Second Amendment–is the result of a Supreme Court interpretation. On June 22, Breitbart News reported that The Washington Post espoused this same liberal talking point, claiming that the Supreme Court created an individual right to keep and bear arms via the District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision.
In other words, prior to 2008, there was no individual right to keep and bear arms. It wasn’t what our Founding Fathers intended and it wasn’t what generation upon generation of Americans from 1791 to 2008 believed and lived by. It’s all based on a decision by a group of justices.
In his speech, aired on C-SPAN, Obama said:
We have a long tradition of gun rights and gun ownership in this country. The Second Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean the people have the right to bear arms. There are a lot of law-abiding, responsible gun owners who use it for protection or sport. They handle their weapons properly. There are traditions of families passing down [hunting] from father to son, or daughter … and that is important; that’s part of who we are. But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized nations–by like a mile.
And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready, availability of firearms, particularly handguns.
However, the gun control lobby’s relentless claim that America’s homicide rate is so much higher than other industrialized countries breaks down under scrutiny.
For example, in August 2013, Breitbart News reported on a study in the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy which showed that the murder rate in heavily gun-controlled Russia was approximately 20.52 per 100,000 people in 2002. A high point for America was 6.6 per 100,000 people in 1993, and that rate fell to 3.2 per 100,000 by 2011, after the number of privately owned guns in America went from 192 million in 1994 to 310 million in 2009.
So, 20.52 per 100,000 people are murdered in Russia versus America’s 6.6 per 100,000–later to be 3.2 per 100,000–yet, according to President Obama, America’s murder rate is, “like a mile” higher than that of other industrialized countries.
Since majority rule here in South Africa, the government has attempted to take all the guns from civilian owners. The murder rate has increased from negligible to five times that of the USA in that time. The police and army are selling and hiring their guns out to criminals on a massive scale. Taking the guns from the law abiding only ensures that the non-law abiding retain theirs, to everyones detriment.
it ain't about hunting you fekkin' crack-addled melanin-enhanced Mussolini!!
“But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries–by like a mile.”
Well... We just need to establish what the definition of "is" is.
Link to a graphic showing homicide rates across countries. (http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Screen-Shot-2013-12-17-at-Tuesday-December-17-11.35-AM.png)
Source (http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2014/03/comparing-murder-rates-across-countries/)
Town Hall gathering at Benedict College, SC - full remarks.
Richard
<snip>All right. I got one more question. Now it’s a woman’s turn. Men, all put down -- men got to put down their hands now. I’m looking around. It’s not going to be a guy. All right, we’ll call on this young lady right here. (Laughter.) Oh, I’m sorry. Go ahead.
Q I am also a native of Chicago.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, well, I did not mean to call on three Chicagoans. (Laughter.) I guess this is where everybody in Chicago moves to because it’s too cold in Chicago. (Laughter.) Go ahead.
Q I am a senior majoring in psychology. One of my questions is, as you know, Chicago struggles with gun violence. So my question is, what organizations and programs are you guys designing to keep the youth off the streets and into better conditions? And how can we as a community help you guys execute those programs and designs and organizations?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I already mentioned My Brother’s Keeper, which is a major focus. Each community then is going to have its own -- this is an example of where you got to work with the police department effectively and build trust. What we know is things like community policing really work, where you're partnering with law enforcement; law enforcement gets to know young people when they're still in school before they're in trouble. People have confidence that law enforcement is there for them, not just in tamping down stuff, but in lifting people up. My Brother’s Keeper and other initiatives are going to make a big difference in giving young people an opportunity.
Now, you mentioned gun violence, and that’s probably the hardest issue to deal with. We have a long tradition of gun rights and gun ownership in this country. The Second Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that people have the right to bear arms. There are a lot of law-abiding, responsible gun owners who use it for protection or sport. They handle their weapons properly. There are traditions of families passing down from father to son or daughter hunting. And that's important. That's part of our culture. That's part of who we are.
But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries. I mean by a like a mile. And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready availability of firearms, particularly handguns.
Now, the courts and state legislatures -- and I’m sure this is true in South Carolina -- have greatly restricted the ability to put in place common-sense -- some common-sense gun safety laws like background checks. I personally believe that it is not violating anybody’s rights that if you want to purchase a gun, it should be at least your responsibility to get a background check so that we know you are not a violent felon, or that you don’t currently have a restraining order on you because you committed domestic abuse or -- right now, we don’t know a lot of that. It's just not available. And that doesn’t make sense to me. And I’ll be honest with you, I thought after what happened at Sandy Hook, that that would make us think about it.
The hardest day of my presidency, and I’ve had some hard days, but nothing compares to being with the parents of 20 6-year-old kids, beautiful little kids, and some heroic teachers and administrators in that school, just two-three days after they had just been gunned down in their own classroom. And you would have thought at that point, that has got to be enough of a motivator for us to want to do something about this. And we couldn’t get it done. I mean, there was just -- at least at the congressional level.
So what we’ve done is we have tried as much as we can administratively to implement background checks and to make sure that we’re working with those states and cities and jurisdictions that are interested and willing to partner with us to crack down on the legal use of firearms, particularly handguns.
But I’ll be honest with you. In the absence of more, what I would consider, heroic and courageous stances from our legislators both at the state level and the federal level, it is hard to reduce the easy availability of guns. And as long as you can go into some neighborhoods and it is easier for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book, there are neighborhoods where it's easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable -- as long as that’s the case, we’re going to continue to see unnecessary violence.
But I’ll end by saying this. Despite those frustrations, despite the failure of Congress to act, despite the failure of too many state legislators to act -- in fact, in some places it goes the opposite direction, people just say well, we should have firearms in kindergarten and we should have machine guns in bars. You think I'm exaggerating -- I mean, you look at some of these laws that come up.
Despite those frustrations, I would say it is still within our control to reduce the incidence of handgun violence by making sure that our young people understand that that is not a sign of strength, that violence is not the answer for whatever frustrations they may have or conflicts they may have, and to work diligently with our young people and in our communities to try to put them on a positive path.
And the people who are going to lead that process are the young people who are here today. (Applause.) You are going to have more impact on the young people coming up behind you than anybody else. And the kind of example you set, and the willingness of all of you to get involved and engaged in a concrete way, to remake our world together, that’s what’s going to determine the future of America. And looking out at all of you, you’re what makes me optimistic.
Thank you very much, Benedict College. "
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/06/remarks-president-town-hall-st-benedict-college-columbia-sc
Industrialized nations homicide rates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/chart-the-u-s-has-far-more-gun-related-killings-than-any-other-developed-country
Streck-Fu
03-09-2015, 13:36
So which legislator tried to pass a law to permit 'machine guns' in bars.....:rolleyes:
folks in Washington in 2015 are bat shit crazy by like a mile more than James Earl Carter was
welcome to the brave new world
Old Dog New Trick
03-09-2015, 14:43
Town Hall gathering at Benedict College, SC - full remarks.
Richard
<snip>All right. I got one more question. Now it’s a woman’s turn. Men, all put down -- men got to put down their hands now. I’m looking around. It’s not going to be a guy. All right, we’ll call on this young lady right here. (Laughter.) Oh, I’m sorry. Go ahead.
Q I am also a native of Chicago.
THE PRESIDENT: Oh, well, I did not mean to call on three Chicagoans. (Laughter.) I guess this is where everybody in Chicago moves to because it’s too cold in Chicago. (Laughter.) Go ahead.
Q I am a senior majoring in psychology. One of my questions is, as you know, Chicago struggles with gun violence. So my question is, what organizations and programs are you guys designing to keep the youth off the streets and into better conditions? And how can we as a community help you guys execute those programs and designs and organizations?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I already mentioned My Brother’s Keeper, which is a major focus. Each community then is going to have its own -- this is an example of where you got to work with the police department effectively and build trust. What we know is things like community policing really work, where you're partnering with law enforcement; law enforcement gets to know young people when they're still in school before they're in trouble. People have confidence that law enforcement is there for them, not just in tamping down stuff, but in lifting people up. My Brother’s Keeper and other initiatives are going to make a big difference in giving young people an opportunity.
Now, you mentioned gun violence, and that’s probably the hardest issue to deal with. We have a long tradition of gun rights and gun ownership in this country. The Second Amendment has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean that people have the right to bear arms. There are a lot of law-abiding, responsible gun owners who use it for protection or sport. They handle their weapons properly. There are traditions of families passing down from father to son or daughter hunting. And that's important. That's part of our culture. That's part of who we are.
But what we also have to recognize is, is that our homicide rates are so much higher than other industrialized countries. I mean by a like a mile. And most of that is attributable to the easy, ready availability of firearms, particularly handguns.
Now, the courts and state legislatures -- and I’m sure this is true in South Carolina -- have greatly restricted the ability to put in place common-sense -- some common-sense gun safety laws like background checks. I personally believe that it is not violating anybody’s rights that if you want to purchase a gun, it should be at least your responsibility to get a background check so that we know you are not a violent felon, or that you don’t currently have a restraining order on you because you committed domestic abuse or -- right now, we don’t know a lot of that. It's just not available. And that doesn’t make sense to me. And I’ll be honest with you, I thought after what happened at Sandy Hook, that that would make us think about it.
The hardest day of my presidency, and I’ve had some hard days, but nothing compares to being with the parents of 20 6-year-old kids, beautiful little kids, and some heroic teachers and administrators in that school, just two-three days after they had just been gunned down in their own classroom. And you would have thought at that point, that has got to be enough of a motivator for us to want to do something about this. And we couldn’t get it done. I mean, there was just -- at least at the congressional level.
So what we’ve done is we have tried as much as we can administratively to implement background checks and to make sure that we’re working with those states and cities and jurisdictions that are interested and willing to partner with us to crack down on the legal use of firearms, particularly handguns.
But I’ll be honest with you. In the absence of more, what I would consider, heroic and courageous stances from our legislators both at the state level and the federal level, it is hard to reduce the easy availability of guns. And as long as you can go into some neighborhoods and it is easier for you to buy a firearm than it is for you to buy a book, there are neighborhoods where it's easier for you to buy a handgun and clips than it is for you to buy a fresh vegetable -- as long as that’s the case, we’re going to continue to see unnecessary violence.
But I’ll end by saying this. Despite those frustrations, despite the failure of Congress to act, despite the failure of too many state legislators to act -- in fact, in some places it goes the opposite direction, people just say well, we should have firearms in kindergarten and we should have machine guns in bars. You think I'm exaggerating -- I mean, you look at some of these laws that come up.
Despite those frustrations, I would say it is still within our control to reduce the incidence of handgun violence by making sure that our young people understand that that is not a sign of strength, that violence is not the answer for whatever frustrations they may have or conflicts they may have, and to work diligently with our young people and in our communities to try to put them on a positive path.
And the people who are going to lead that process are the young people who are here today. (Applause.) You are going to have more impact on the young people coming up behind you than anybody else. And the kind of example you set, and the willingness of all of you to get involved and engaged in a concrete way, to remake our world together, that’s what’s going to determine the future of America. And looking out at all of you, you’re what makes me optimistic.
Thank you very much, Benedict College. "
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/03/06/remarks-president-town-hall-st-benedict-college-columbia-sc
Industrialized nations homicide rates.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/14/chart-the-u-s-has-far-more-gun-related-killings-than-any-other-developed-country
Lies! Drivel! and downright hyperbole!
That's an awful lot of (unscripted) words to answer a question proposed by a random attendee/student.
Golf1echo
03-10-2015, 08:01
"That's an awful lot of (unscripted) words to answer a question proposed by a random attendee/student."
AKA American Kabuki Theater.
...lets not kid ourselves, nothing about this administration is unscripted.
So what we’ve done is we have tried as much as we can administratively to implement background checks and to make sure that we’re working with those states and cities and jurisdictions that are interested and willing to partner with us to crack down on the legal use of firearms, particularly handguns.
Is that a Freudian slip or a gaff?
Is that a Freudian slip or a gaff?
...neither.
I suspect it was exactly what was meant.
'Candidate' Obama once shamelessly said,
"Right now, everybody's so pinched that business is bad for everybody. And I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody."
He has reaffirmed repeatedly through word and deed over the last 6 years that he EXACTLY means to spread the wealth around.
...he meant EXACTLY that he wants to crack down on the legal use of firearms. The POTUS is far too arrogant to NOT say what he means. There was nothing Freudian about it.