Obama: We Need A Permanent Assault Weapons Ban
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.
