Just as some here suspected, here it comes again, as if on cue...
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...here-is-more-we-can-do-to-stop-gun-violence/1
<h3>Obama seeks to re-open gun control debate after Tucson shootings</h3>Two months after the mass shooting in Arizona, President Obama is
calling for better background checks on gun buyers and suggesting that
more gun control legislation may be needed.
"Clearly, there's more we can do to prevent gun violence," Obama said in an op-ed for the
Arizona Daily Star
in Tucson, site of the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six and wounded 13,
including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. "But I want this to at least
be the beginning of a new discussion on
how we can keep America safe for
all our people." (urge everyone to own and carry firearms would be a great start! more gun control certainly won't help)
Obama did not offer specifics, but did anticipate the political difficulties of
enacting new gun legislation.
"Some
will say that anything short of the most sweeping anti-gun legislation
is a capitulation to the gun lobby," Obama wrote, while "others will
predictably cast any discussion as the opening salvo in a wild-eyed
scheme to take away everybody's guns."
But Obama expressed
confidence that "most gun-control advocates know that most gun owners
are responsible citizens" and that "most gun owners know that the word
'commonsense' isn't a code word for 'confiscation.''' (not this one!)
"None
of us should be willing to remain passive in the face of violence or
resigned to watching helplessly as another rampage unfolds on
television," Obama wrote. (no, instead we should willingly sacrifice our freedom at the expense of "security")
The president did not mention accused
Tuscon shooter Jared Loughner by name, but wrote that "a man our Army
rejected as unfit for service; a man one of our colleges deemed too
unstable for studies; a man apparently bent on violence, was able to
walk into a store and buy a gun."
In calling for better background checks, Obama wrote:
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"The National Instant Criminal Background Check System is the filter
that's supposed to stop the wrong people from getting their hands on a
gun. Bipartisan legislation four years ago was supposed to strengthen
this system, but it hasn't been properly implemented."
-- "
We should in fact reward the states that provide the best data - and therefore do the most to protect our citizens." (FedGov incentives (or even penalties for those that don't) to the states that become the most like Big Brother)
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"We should provide an instant, accurate, comprehensive and consistent
system for background checks to sellers who want to do the right thing,
and make sure that criminals can't escape it." (What a joke! how many criminals are going to go through legal means to obtain weapons?)