Obama: We Need A Permanent Assault Weapons Ban

Ken McCracken • July 17, 2007

Barrack Obama, addressing a church congregation, starts off talking about inner-city violence the right way:

CHICAGO — Standing before a church congregation that has witnessed inner-city violence firsthand, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that more must be done to end a social ill that is “sickening the soul of this nation.”
Obama told churchgoers at the Vernon Park Church of God on Chicago’s South Side that too many young lives are being claimed by violence and more must be done to combat the problem.
“From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there’s an epidemic of violence that’s sickening the soul of this nation,” the Illinois senator told the crowd. “The violence is unacceptable and it’s got to stop.”

Quite right. Violence in these big cities is a terrible problem, and something should be done about it. So we’re going to go after the people causing the problems right? And addressing the social conditions that often drive them to violence?
Guess not.

He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.

Right. Because guns are the problem. Not, you know, the people using them to kill/hurt other people.

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Guns, Politics, The Loony Left

http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

Part of the problem is the dishonesty of most gun-banning politicians. True “assault” weapons are already illegal in all 50 states except for Federal license holders, the military and law enforcement.
The percentage of crime committed by licensed assault weapons is virtually zero.
Anti-gun politicians, and their willing accomplices in the MSM, either ignorantly or willfully confuse the issues with lies, half-truths, and a failure to address the underlying problem of crime: namely, the criminals who commit them.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

How is that handgun ban doing in Chicago? Maybe Obama can answer why Chicago has so many gun deaths from those supposedly banned handguns.

Then again, maybe not. If Obama where to address the deaths, he would have to admit that his position is stupid.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

Or look at Chicago, Mickey, where the gun bans are almost as bad as DC’s.

And Bronx cheers to Obama for his choice of (pun intended) targets. Reality is that most students can neither afford to buy, nor can easily conceal, an infantry style semiautomatic rifle. Hence, five will get you ten that the main weapons recovered in the school killings are inexpensive pistols, especially former police firearms.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

The solution to this “gun” “problem” is to arrest those criminals including criminal illegal aliens who use guns in the commission of crimes, period. Enforce the present laws.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

So we should disarm the police because their guns are often used in crimes.

In fact I understand that many police are killed by criminals disarming the officersand turning them on them.
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/Anna/ Anna

A permanent ban will only prevent the legitimate store owner from selling them. The “bad” guy is going to have or obtain a weapon regardless to whether the “good” guys possess one.
It’s a sure bet the ACLU won’t be fighting for anyones 2nd Amendment Rights.
Derrick

2 weeks ago a cop used an AR-15 to kill six people at a party. Now tell me the police and military are the only people that should have access to these weapons. Obama…God Help us ALL in 2008
Mickey

Just look at Washington DC and tell me if it is working.
http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

If I’m not mistaken ‘salt weapons are pretty much illegal in Chicago already. Same with handguns.

So I’m pretty much sure there’s no murders going on there.
kbiel

Not, you know, the people using them to kill/hurt other people.

Or the liberal stranglehold on these inner city areas where utopia is always just another teacher pay raise and gun restriction away.
phil

In the hands of a mere civilian, an “assault weapon”, is a weapon of mass destruction, designed only for killing large numbers of people easily. The civilian becomes a frothing at the mouth extremist red neck, (read republican) unable to be trusted in a “civilized society”.

In the hands of the police, it is simply a “semi-automatic rifle”, necessary to keep the peace.
http://www.bikebubba.blogspot.com/ Robert Perry

Nah, arrest Mayor Daley and the aldermen for depriving citizens of their right to keep and bear arms, resulting in a murder rate about five times the national average.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

everyone should have a .38 in their pocket if they want to.

…or are you just glad to see me?
http://sayanythingblog.com/readers/author/sparkiearbuckle sayanything-81

i’m still not voting for him. everyone should have a .38 in their pocket if they want to.
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