“Unless we change that political dynamic, we’re not going to be able to make a big dent in this problem”, he said asking gun-control advocates to act as “single-issue voters”, punishing and rewarding politicians at the polls on the topic.
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President Barack Obama angrily has said America had made a “political choice” to allow mass shootings like the one in Oregon to occur and blasted the National Rifle Association (NRA)lobby group for blocking reform of USA gun laws.
Obama took several questions about gun control one day after a gunman murdered community college students in Oregon. The reporting is routine.
“I thought President Obama overreacted”, Williams said.
But Earnest also acknowledged that President Obama was unlikely to get his wish. “The conversation and the aftermath of it, we’ve become numb to this”.
Since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, there have been at least 142 school shootings in America – an average of almost one a week, the organization said.
“He goes out, pushes for these expanded background checks, Hillary Clinton did the same thing yesterday, before we even know the facts in this case”, John Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, said Friday on “The Steve Malzberg Show” on Newsmax TV.
Clearly angry, the gun store boss denounced Obama s attempts at gun control as “totally stupid”.
“We should have been thinking of the families”, he said.
Irwin says restricting guns is not the answer because they will always be available to those looking to harm others. I can guarantee you the vast majority of them will have a D- a capital D next to their name if they are on the ballot. “They want to have to have guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them”, he said. And as Obama has noted, these sorts of mass shootings do not happen with this kind of frequency in other countries, where gun regulation is seen as valuable and sensible, not as a threat to freedom.
As the President calls for more gun control, the Texas legislature has eased gun restrictions.
“I’m exhausted of the government telling me what to do all the time”, he said.
But these arguments, when pitted against the cultural allure of the settler-frontiersman and rugged individualism, the profits of the gun lobby and a tendentious interpretation of the second amendment, rarely get a hearing beyond the comfort zones from which they emerge.
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In other words, we don’t yet have enough information to immediately connect the tragedy to the need for further gun control. In a series of votes, the lawmakers rejected an assault weapons ban and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as bipartisan background check legislation.
