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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo when does Obama take our guns??
He's really running out of time and you'd think it would take longer than 6 months to round up all of those guns.
malaise
(268,844 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)Then they will turn my kids gay through indoctrination as well. Yeah that's it. I can't remember all the tin foil hat stuff daily.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... like I HOPE, I'm sure the conservative propagandists will dream up all kinds of new "feminist threats" too.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... because the REAL threat is Hillary Clinton.
The gun nuts are a bunch of Chicken Littles.
RobinA
(9,886 posts)his goon squads of African American men who were supposed to carry out the gun grab? You can't tell me those guys are suddenly going to switch loyalties to Hillary!!!!
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... but it doesn't surprise me.
For many conservatives, this is BAD:
While this is GOOD:
Imagine FOX News and Sean Hannity's reaction if Clive Bundy had been black and all of his gun-toting supporters were black too.
Although I place most of the blame on fearful white people, I do think some of the more violent aspects of the civil rights movement helped create some of this insanity over guns.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/divided-america-gun-views-fractious-153606020.html
Many point to a single date as crucial in the societal shift: May 21, 1977, when a contingent of National Rifle Association members staged a revolt that remade the groups leadership, scuttled plans for a retreat from politics and sealed a rightward, hard-line shift. It led to a fundamental remaking of the NRA, which had come to accept some gun laws, including the Gun Control Act of 1968...
The gun lobbys increasingly powerful voice found receptive ears among a public left UNEASY BY CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLES, assassinations and growing urban lawlessness...
But data from the GSS and the Pew Research Center offers a sketch of what the gun-owning populace looks like today: Overwhelmingly WHITE AND MALE, concentrated in rural areas, and more often identifying with or leaning toward the Republican Party. They also have higher incomes and are more likely to vote...
A Pew poll released in August showed 85 percent of people support background checks for purchases at gun shows and in private sales; 79 percent support laws to prevent the mentally ill from buying guns; 70 percent approve of a federal database to track gun sales; and 57 percent FAVOR A BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Be right back...
malaise
(268,844 posts)should be plastered all over America - call out the fugging LIARS and scaremongers.
aikoaiko
(34,165 posts)Just saying.
RandiFan1290
(6,226 posts)Nice try!
aikoaiko
(34,165 posts)Don't miss the bolded part.
After years of inaction on gun control, President Obama on Wednesday vowed to make gun violence a central issue of his second term and to act without delay in pushing through measures to prevent another Newtown-style massacre.
He said a task force headed by Vice President Biden will seek the best ideas from across the government and present him with concrete proposals to send to Congress in January.
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I will use all the powers of this office to progress the efforts to reduce gun violence, and I won't be able to do it by myself, Obama said at a White House news conference.
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He did not venture into specifics on Wednesday but may have tipped his hand by mentioning that the majority of Americans support reinstating the ban on assault weapons, prohibiting high-capacity ammunition magazines and closing the legal loophole that allows people to buy weapons at gun shows without a background check.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-appoints-biden-lead-gun-violence-task-force-article-1.1223549
RandiFan1290
(6,226 posts)Oh my the creeping tyranny!
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Moving the goalposts.
Just saying, part 2.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)anoNY42
(670 posts)The gun-grabbing has been postponed until the day Hillary Clinton is sworn in (according to the most sober and honest analysis of the NRA)!
Freddie
(9,258 posts)And got a really good price for it from a co-worker: "I have to buy this now because pretty soon Obama won't let anyone buy guns anymore!" Was a delightful little windfall.
dembotoz
(16,796 posts)underahedgerow
(1,232 posts)It's a shame that so many cling so tightly to something so deadly to so many.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Maybe President Clinton will have better luck!
Certainly is pushing for it this time.
Initech
(100,054 posts)That is if you listen to Infowars.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)spanone
(135,802 posts)just you wait & see!!!!!
Rex
(65,616 posts)It is painful watching adults pretend that the gummit is coming fer their guuuuuunnnsss! About the dumbest thing anyone can ever believe. And there is a lot of dumb shit out there!
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,399 posts)Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Whatever you do: DON'T LEAVE THE HOUSE THAT DAY!
tonyt53
(5,737 posts)prarie deem
(115 posts)My neighbor down the block insists that Obama is going to refuse to leave the White House and become a dictator over the US.
One could only hope - I told ya - I live in Repub land. : (