Gun Control Reform Activism

Robb

(39,665 posts) Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:27 PM Sep 2013

Obama: "It ought to obsess us."

President Barack Obama has called for a transformation in US gun laws at a memorial service for the Washington navy yard shooting victims, saying, "There's nothing inevitable about it."

Obama said Americans should honour the victims of last Monday's shooting by insisting on a change in gun laws. "It ought to obsess us," Obama said.

"Sometimes I fear there is a creeping resignation that these tragedies are just somehow the way it is, that this is somehow the new normal. We cannot accept this."

He said no other advanced nation endured the kind of gun violence seen in the United States, and blamed mass shootings on laws that fail "to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people".

"What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun," he said.

Read More: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/23/obama-navy-yard-gun-laws-inevitable

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Obama: "It ought to obsess us." (Original Post) Robb Sep 2013 OP

people with guns in their hands are all dangerous people by definition. nt msongs Sep 2013 #1

Agreed. There is this odd notion that they are "potentially dangerous" Robb Sep 2013 #2

the "home of the brave" needs to stop catering to paranoid cowards Skittles Sep 2013 #3

Absolutely! BainsBane Sep 2013 #4

Completely got his back on this subject. Oakenshield Sep 2013 #5

"What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun," he said. SoutherDem Sep 2013 #6

The Second Amendment billh58 Sep 2013 #8

Thank you, Robb.. and I'd like to add this quote from Bob Cesca, Cha Sep 2013 #7

msongs

(67,432 posts)

1. people with guns in their hands are all dangerous people by definition. nt

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:29 PM

Sep 2013

Robb

(39,665 posts)

2. Agreed. There is this odd notion that they are "potentially dangerous"

Reply to msongs (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:32 PM

Sep 2013

...as if "dangerous" does not already mean there's some slight chance you aren't in danger.

Skittles

(153,174 posts)

3. the "home of the brave" needs to stop catering to paranoid cowards

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:37 PM

Sep 2013

BainsBane

(53,041 posts)

4. Absolutely!

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 08:39 PM

Sep 2013

Oakenshield

(614 posts)

5. Completely got his back on this subject.

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 11:11 PM

Sep 2013

We have a gun violence epidemic in this country, and it's in desperate need of being dealt with.

SoutherDem

(2,307 posts)

6. "What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun," he said.

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 12:02 AM

Sep 2013

What's different in America is we have the 2nd Amendment.

billh58

(6,635 posts)

8. The Second Amendment

Reply to SoutherDem (Reply #6)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 11:56 AM

Sep 2013

does NOT preclude regulation and oversight of the ownership and use of lethal weapons. The Second Amendment does NOT permit the unfettered supply of guns to criminals by "legal" no-questions-asked private sales. The Second Amendment does NOT permit gun owners to carelessly allow access to their deadly weapons by children.

Yes, we have the Second Amendment, but the NRA uses it as a marketing tool for profits for their gun manufacturer sponsors, and has made a mockery of a Constitutional Right through the corruption of right-wing politicians (from both sides of the aisle). Gun nuts make a mockery of the Second Amendment when they walk around in public with an AR-15 strapped over their shoulder just because it is their "Right." The Second Amendment does NOT grant individual gun owners the "Right" to determine when it is time to overthrow the elected government of the United States of America.

The Second Amendment does NOT guarantee that it should be "easy to get your hands on a gun."

Cha

(297,473 posts)

7. Thank you, Robb.. and I'd like to add this quote from Bob Cesca,

Reply to Robb (Original post)

Tue Sep 24, 2013, 01:17 AM

Sep 2013

today..

The Grief Counselor-In-Chief

We can’t accept this. 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. There’s nothing normal about our children being gunned down in our classrooms. There’s nothing normal about children dying in our streets from stray bullets.

http://bobcesca.thedailybanter.com/blog-archives/2013/09/the-grief-counselor-in-chief.html

h/t sheshe BOG http://www.democraticunderground.com/110216913#post23

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