“You certainly would like to make it a little harder for that assailant to have also had a gun”, he said.
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COOPER: There’s a lot of people believe it deeply, they just don’t trust you.
“He re-affirmed Americans’ right to buy guns, and even said his wife, Michelle Obama, turned to him while the two drove through Iowa during the 2008 campaign and said if she lived in a farm house with a sheriff’s office far away, “‘I’d want to have a shotgun or a rifle to make sure I was protected and my family was protected'”. President Barack Obama, right, stops to greet Father Michael Pfleger, left, Pastor at Saint Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago during a commercial break at a CNN televised town hall meeting at George Mason University. “And since this is the main reason they exist, you’d think they would be prepared to have a debate with the president”.
Senator Ted Cruz, who is running for the Republican presidential nomination, emailed supporters an image of the president in combat uniform, complete with helmet, claiming “Obama wants your guns”. Obama took questions from Taya Kyle, whose late husband was depicted in the film “American Sniper”, and Cleo Pendleton, whose daughter was shot and killed near Obama’s Chicago home.
A spokesman said before the event that the group had “no reason to participate in a public relations spectacle orchestrated by the White House”.
“Yes, it is fair to call it a conspiracy”, Obama said. “If I screwed up, I wasn’t at risk of getting shot”, he said. 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. As he alternated between making the logical case for reform and an emotional case for change, Obama offered as passionate an argument for reforming American gun laws as we’ve ever heard from an American president, or even an American politician.
JIM LO SCALZO/EPA The NRA posted an online petition that argues that Obama is trying to “further erode our Second Amendment rights”.
Jarrett said that she expected the forum would include plenty of people who disagreed with Obama, despite the NRA’s decision not to attend. “Why can’t your administration see that these restrictions that you are putting make it harder for me to own a gun?”
“He doesn’t support the individual right to own a firearm”.
President Obama is expected to sign an executive order expanding federal background checks on gun purchases.
Regardless of whether Congress approves the increase in staffing, the president has ordered the agency to send out new guidance on which firearms dealers are considered to be “in the business of selling firearms” and therefore required to obtain a license. “And the problem when we talk about that guns don’t shoot – kill people, people kill people, or it’s primarily a mental health problem or it’s a criminal and evil problem and that’s what we have to get at”.
Beaver says among other reasons, he blames the movie industry for how much gun violence is promoted and idolized. Congress has not approved major gun-control legislation since the 1990s.
After his re-election in 2012, the President pushed for a bipartisan gun control bill, but that collapsed in the Senate.
It calls for better data analysis of the effectiveness of current gun safety efforts; for looking for failures in the state’s current methods of sharing information among law enforcement and social service agencies; and for eyeing gaps in the state’s firearm purchasing laws.
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Information from The New York Times was included in this story.
