Obama Urges “Common Sense” Balance On Gun Control And Gun Rights
BY Herschel Smith
11 years, 2 months ago
President Obama, addressing yet another memorial gathering after a deadly mass shooting, said Sunday evening that he senses “a creeping resignation” in the United States that homicidal lunacy like the Washington Navy Yard massacre “is somehow the new normal.” But he said “it ought to be a shock to us all” and should spur Americans to demand “a common sense” balance between gun rights and gun control.
“We cannot accept this,” Obama said of the Sept. 16 attack that killed a dozen people at the Navy Yard. “As Americans bound in grief and love, we must insist here today there’s nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work.”
Obama was addressing about 4,000 people, including loved ones of the slain, who gathered outdoors at the Marine Corps Barracks at Eighth and I streets SE, a few blocks from the Navy Yard. The president did not vow to throw the weight of his presidency behind an effort to enact gun-control legislation, as he did in December at a memorial service after the slaughter at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. Instead, he urged the nation to demand such measures.
He used a shotgun – a gun most often used in America for hunting Turkey and water fowl.
Uh huh. Did the Syria “crisis” evaporate Mr. Obama? Do you need another crisis to deflect attention from the horrible economy and impending doom of Obamacare implementation? Do you want people to waste their time figuring out how to make shotguns illegal instead of how to handle the clouds of economic meltdown on the horizon?
Move on. Nothing to see here, go look at … yea, that’s it … guns again.
On September 23, 2013 at 10:59 am, Paul B said:
Look, Squirrels. right there, Squirrels. Go get em.
On September 24, 2013 at 3:28 pm, Bill Gelwick said:
Never let a good crisis go to waste right? I mean it was this administration that said that. They were obviously serious too. Common Sense would suggest that a government who wants to disarm you intends to enslave you. Those who do not study history truly are doomed to repeat it.
On September 25, 2013 at 5:11 am, Michael Schlechter said:
I read my son the headline of this article, and his response was, “so he wants a lobotomy?”