Obama Says America Needs Soul Searching on Gun Violence: Will Obama Support Gun Control Before the Election?
Heisenberg
2012/08/06 23:00:00
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REUTERS.COM reports:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday that mass killings like the weekend shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin were happening with too much regularity and should prompt soul searching by all Americans, but he stopped short of calling for new gun-control laws.
Read More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/06/us-usa-w...
You would have a heart attack if a real Socialist got anywhere near the White House.
Obama is centre-right. It's an insult to any left-leaning person to call him a socialist or anything of the sort.
I say again: Obama is centre-right on any proper political spectrum. Calling him a Socialist shows a completely lack of understanding as to what Socialism is.
Are you stupid?
I'm just saying Obama is not the Socialist that Republicans make him out to be. I just finished saying that the majority of what he has done is follow in the footsteps of Bush, how exactly do you turn that into me thinking he is some Christ figure?
The only reason a real left-leaning person would vote for him is because the other choices are far-right religious nuts, not because Obama is some Leftist saviour and hero.
"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing needs to be done. Doing something will only make it worse.
Nothing needs to be done. 2 mass shooting happened in Colorado.A liberal state which means more gun control than other states.
http://blogs.denverpost.com/o...
And there have been mass shootings very recently in Wisconsin and in Arizona.
It's good to make it harder to obtain these weapons because their purpose is to kill a room full of people. And yes criminals don't obey laws, but if we create laws making it harder to obtain these sorts of weapons nationwide, then it will be harder for criminals to get their hands on these sorts of weapons.
the United States and Switzerland have similarly high levels of gun ownership but very different crime rates, and this variance does not support a positive correlation between gun prevalence and the prevention of violence.Switzerland's low crime level is due to having more social equality.
And I have no problem with the death penalty for people like Holmes. I do not believe he is criminally insane. I'm just not sure if the death penalty will do as much to deter future acts like this as much as potential gun control laws could.
I read that Holmes did use a semi-automatic weapon. And yes if he couldn't get his hands on that I'm sure he would have used a handgun. And if he couldn't obtain one of those then he would have used a knife. But the thing is if he did use a handgun, then the number of dead would probably have been lower. If he used a knife and the number of the dead would have been even smaller.
Everyone realizes that people kill people, that's why we send them and not the weapon to prison, but the gun sure as hell helps them out.
- Loughner, should have been on the prohibited list, the police could not take the time to do that. They knew he was crazy.
-Holmes, probably should have been put on the prohibited list since I read today that his psychiatrist had called the police.
The most recent shooting, I have to wait for details.
-Ishmael Axe, he is the one who shot up VA Tech a few years ago. 2 women reported him for stalking, but would not sign a complaint, one of them would have put him on the prohibited list. I can't remember his name, but that was tattooed on his arm. "It translates as 'Son of Sacrifice'. are reference to Ishmael found of Arab peoples. Also, a judge had ordered him to take a psychological because an English teacher reported some deranged writings. The judge could have thrown him in jail for contempt of court and placed him on the list. 3 times the laws weren't enforced in this case.
Unless existing laws are enforced, what is the sense in passing more laws?
No one can legally buy a firearm until their name is run through the FBI computer.
You cannot legally buy firearms through the mail or over the internet. No carrier will ship them either.
The penalty for attempting to purchase a firearm when you are pr...
- Loughner, should have been on the prohibited list, the police could not take the time to do that. They knew he was crazy.
-Holmes, probably should have been put on the prohibited list since I read today that his psychiatrist had called the police.
The most recent shooting, I have to wait for details.
-Ishmael Axe, he is the one who shot up VA Tech a few years ago. 2 women reported him for stalking, but would not sign a complaint, one of them would have put him on the prohibited list. I can't remember his name, but that was tattooed on his arm. "It translates as 'Son of Sacrifice'. are reference to Ishmael found of Arab peoples. Also, a judge had ordered him to take a psychological because an English teacher reported some deranged writings. The judge could have thrown him in jail for contempt of court and placed him on the list. 3 times the laws weren't enforced in this case.
Unless existing laws are enforced, what is the sense in passing more laws?
No one can legally buy a firearm until their name is run through the FBI computer.
You cannot legally buy firearms through the mail or over the internet. No carrier will ship them either.
The penalty for attempting to purchase a firearm when you are prohibited from owning firearms can get you 30 to 50 years in prison, depending on the circumstances.
Clinton bragged about preventing 600,000 people from buying firearms, which is great. The problem was that he only prosecuted a couple thousand. Bush stopped about that many and only prosecuted a few more, but not enough to notice.