Obama: Fully Automatic Weapon Used In Newtown
BY Herschel Smith11 years, 1 month ago
Glenn Reynolds links a Hot Air report on Obama’s recent remarks concerning gun control. The comment of the day thus far is this:
What a jackass, what an embarrassing, petulant, jackass fool we have as preznit.
If the Founders knew we would eventually reach the point of electing a bugwit like Dog Eater, they probably would have burned the Declaration and said “What’s the point in fighting and sacrificing?”
I don’t want to press this issue of fully automatic weapons too far because I think the Hughes Amendment was unconstitutional. But the statement is so mind-numbingly stupid and disconnected that it’s easy to pass over a point of logic.
If Obama thinks that a fully automatic weapon was used in the Newtown shooting, then why isn’t he going after machine guns (and then someone can tell him about the “Firearms Owners Protection Act” and make this whole issue go away)? Why is he targeting magazine capacity, universal background checks and other aspects of firearms features and ownership? Could it be that, as we’ve discussed before, none of this is really related to making things safer? It’s all related to increasing state control?
On April 4, 2013 at 2:08 pm, Chuck said:
Herschel, only the most naive and deluded among us believe this has anything whatsoever to do with “making us safer” or even that it’s “for the children.” Of course it is about control. Why else would the government deliberately target only those arms which have the most military utility? It can’t be about public safety because the facts are clear that despite their usefulness for defense of self, family and country they are, statistically speaking, among the least dangerous weapons in the nation.
On April 4, 2013 at 2:21 pm, Herschel Smith said:
“Naive and deluded among us …”
This comes to about 50% of the American people. By how much did Obama get elected this time around?
On April 4, 2013 at 2:33 pm, Chuck said:
Some of that 50 percent is quite cynical and clear-eyed in their votes for more free stuff and their eagerness to trample on what’s left of the Constitution.
However, when I said “us” I was referring to gun owners in general. On any gun blog or Facebook you’ll see that one guy who is shocked, SHOCKED that the gun grabber just can’t comprehend the indisputable facts about the futility of gun control as a means to enhance public safety. They don’t understand that for the left, the facts are irrelevant because public safety is not the goal, it’s just a (rather flimsy) fig leaf.
On April 5, 2013 at 3:09 pm, Real Deal 36 said:
It really is frustrating that no amount of testimony, logic, reason, will work on a true blue liberal Democrat. Sad times, made possible by the Public school system in America for the past 40-50 years.
On April 5, 2013 at 7:10 pm, scott s. said:
That’s what scary about the Halbrook study yesterday. Change a couple words in some of the published statements and put Obama’s name on it, and most people would probably agree that Obama wrote it and many would agree with the statements.