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So when does Obama take our guns?? (Original Post) titaniumsalute Jul 2016 OP
After hethrows you in those FEMA camps malaise Jul 2016 #1
Oh right. I forgot about the FEMA camps titaniumsalute Jul 2016 #3
If Clinton wins Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2016 #4
Obama was a ruse Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2016 #2
Wait, What About RobinA Jul 2016 #10
I don't think I heard that particular one... Buckeye_Democrat Jul 2016 #14
Hell he's not coming for our g ...hang on, there's a helicopter outside pinboy3niner Jul 2016 #5
What the ReTHUGs and RW media hacks claimed Obama would do malaise Jul 2016 #6
Well there was the AWB 2013 attempt. aikoaiko Jul 2016 #7
Senator Feinstein introduced a bill? Oh the tyranny! RandiFan1290 Jul 2016 #12
How soon you forget: President Obama appoints Vice President Biden to lead gun violence task force aikoaiko Jul 2016 #15
A gun violence task force? RandiFan1290 Jul 2016 #17
Moving the goalposts. LanternWaste Jul 2016 #16
He is waiting liberal N proud Jul 2016 #8
You didn't hear? The date has been announced and plans are being made NightWatcher Jul 2016 #9
Haven't you heard? anoNY42 Jul 2016 #11
My husband wanted to sell his old hunting rifle Freddie Jul 2016 #13
the troops are waitng in those tunnels under the old walmarts dembotoz Jul 2016 #18
Not soon enough. I sure wish he would. underahedgerow Jul 2016 #19
President Obama has been rather ineffective in getting meaningful legislation passed. jmg257 Jul 2016 #20
I dunno, how many more false flag mass shootings need to occur? Initech Jul 2016 #21
Not worried. Dove season opens Sept. First!! Happy hunting, everyone. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #22
as soon as you appear before the death panels spanone Jul 2016 #23
IKR!? Sheer stupidity. Rex Jul 2016 #24
Any.second.now Proud Liberal Dem Jul 2016 #25
On November 8, 2016! Chasstev365 Jul 2016 #26
He will do it retroactively the week before he leaves office. tonyt53 Jul 2016 #27
During his third term dontcha know?? prarie deem Jul 2016 #28
Even Obama is afraid they comin' for his gunz. Glassunion Jul 2016 #29

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
3. Oh right. I forgot about the FEMA camps
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 07:45 AM
Jul 2016

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)
4. If Clinton wins
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 07:47 AM
Jul 2016

... like I HOPE, I'm sure the conservative propagandists will dream up all kinds of new "feminist threats" too.

RobinA

(9,886 posts)
10. Wait, What About
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:07 AM
Jul 2016

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)
14. I don't think I heard that particular one...
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:19 AM
Jul 2016

... 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 group’s 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 lobby’s 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.

malaise

(268,844 posts)
6. What the ReTHUGs and RW media hacks claimed Obama would do
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:00 AM
Jul 2016

should be plastered all over America - call out the fugging LIARS and scaremongers.

aikoaiko

(34,165 posts)
15. How soon you forget: President Obama appoints Vice President Biden to lead gun violence task force
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 09:04 AM
Jul 2016

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
 

anoNY42

(670 posts)
11. Haven't you heard?
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:07 AM
Jul 2016

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)
13. My husband wanted to sell his old hunting rifle
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 08:11 AM
Jul 2016

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.

underahedgerow

(1,232 posts)
19. Not soon enough. I sure wish he would.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 11:37 AM
Jul 2016

It's a shame that so many cling so tightly to something so deadly to so many.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
20. President Obama has been rather ineffective in getting meaningful legislation passed.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:25 PM
Jul 2016

Maybe President Clinton will have better luck!

Certainly is pushing for it this time.

 

Rex

(65,616 posts)
24. IKR!? Sheer stupidity.
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 05:07 PM
Jul 2016

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!

prarie deem

(115 posts)
28. During his third term dontcha know??
Thu Jul 28, 2016, 05:25 PM
Jul 2016

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. : (

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