“If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over the top, and so overheated”, Obama said, describing it as a ploy to drive up gun sales.
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Obama said his team had invited the NRA to take part in the debate but that they had declined the offer.
The shame is not a president weeping a bit, but that he has not been able to prevent roughly as many people dying from guns in America on his watch as have been killed in the Syrian civil war (where estimates range from fewer than 200,000 to more than 300,000).
“But I want to ask a question”.
If we’ve developed technology that allows us to unlock a cell phone with a fingerprint, why haven’t we done the same for guns? But, for example, it may be a little more hard and a little more expensive. Daniel W. Webster of Johns Hopkins University cites research that keeping guns from people with past convictions for domestic violence doesn’t make much of a difference.
Thus the other day President Obama announced he would take executive action to curtail gun purchases in the United States.
In the editorial, Obama criticized Congress for repeatedly blocking firearm-safety legislation and giving gun manufacturers “virtual immunity” from lawsuits.
‘I’ve said this repeatedly I’m happy to meet with them.
“But that business is causing blood and the kids that are dying in Chicago”. Meeting this crisis of gun violence will require the same relentless focus, over many years, at every level. As parents, we wouldn’t put up with this if we were talking about faulty vehicle seats. But the country, which has strict controls on the sale of firearms and ammunition, has long pleaded with the U.S. to lend a hand in halting the illegal flow of guns.
“Hillary Clinton is, I think, worse than Obama on the issue, frankly, she wants to take everyone’s gun away”, he said.
In 2014, a gun used in the Islamic terrorist attack on the “Draw Mohammed” cartoon contest hosted by author Pamela Geller in Garland, Texas was linked to the “Fast and Furious” scandal.
So it’s hardly surprising that the failed lame duck President lied about the NRA and misrepresented his views in front of a hand-picked, invitation-only audience on CNN last night with planted questions falsely billed as a townhall.
“There’s a reason why the NRA’s not here”.
Still, more than three in five Americans think that either Obama’s changes struck just the right balance or that he should go even further: 31% said the president had taken the right amount of action, while 30% wished he’d gone further.
NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam said beforehand that the group saw “no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House”. Their thoughts and prayers were nothing compared to President Obama’s tears and executive order that, again, would not have stopped a single mass shooting.
The American Firearms Retailers Association, another group that represents gun dealers, did participate.
It took Anderson Cooper’s prodding about the amorphous sense of gun-rights advocates that Obama’s true intent is to ultimately take people’s guns away for the President to drop his professorial persona and turn angry.
“There’s a very serious concern in this country about personal security”, he added.
“We have to protect the Second Amendment”, Trump told CNN.
He called out Congress for failing to embrace his call to ramp up funding for Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents – underscoring the central problem Obama faces: Congress isn’t going to touch that issue, nor anything else he pushes connected to gun control.
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That is likely to be the centerpiece of his message at Thursday’s forum, where White House officials said Obama is eager to try to debunk the arguments of those who say new gun laws are not necessary.
