Obama Calls for Permanent Assault Weapons Ban

[medmo]

Obama Calls for Permanent Assault Weapons Ban to Combat Inner-City Violence
Sunday , July 15, 2007

Associated Press

Chicago

Standing before a church congregation that has witnessed inner-city violence firsthand, Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that more must be done to end a social ill that is "sickening the soul of this nation."

Obama told churchgoers at the Vernon Park Church of God on Chicago's South Side that too many young lives are being claimed by violence and more must be done to combat the problem.

"From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there's an epidemic of violence that's sickening the soul of this nation," the Illinois senator told the crowd. "The violence is unacceptable and it's got to stop."

Nearly three dozen Chicago students have been killed this year, according to Chicago Public Schools. Obama said that figure is higher than the number of Illinois serviceman who've died in Iraq in 2007.

"We need to express our collective anger through collective action," Obama said.

He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.

He also said government should support and fund more after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. But some of the burden must also be shouldered by residents who need to do more to raise and protect at-risk children, he added.

"We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle," Obama said. "There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path."

He later added, "There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."

 

[Blackfork]

OK Obama....

You start loving them more if you want but leave my guns alone!

 

[Taxpayer]

The imperial conditioning of the voters has began!!! Every election time they go to the churchs and the "streets" with their victims and play on the hearts and limited minds of ignorant voters who can't think for themselves

These kids need more love by golly!

I hope that fascist tyrant gets elected so the revolution can go ahead and start and get it over with. I am so sicks of this crap.

Hey Osama,

"We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle," Obama said. "There are too many young men out there who have gone down the wrong path."

We need our "assault weapons" to protect ourselves from the hordes of these young thugs that you let roam the cities.

 

[FieroCDSP]

Yes..."assault weapons" are being carried by every thug in Chicago. Never mind that they can use and conceal handguns easier, they want their AK's.

Bye-bye Obama. No WhiteHouse for U.

 

[BBQJOE]

Obama should start a gun trade in program.

HUGS FOR GUNS!!!!

 

[CWL]

That's fine, he should go on and push his policies. Nobody should remind him how the Demos were voted out-of-office when they supported the original AW ban.

 

[jefnvk]

From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey

There is the problem, in my opinion. Problems that plague a few hundred square miles of inner big cities, do not mean problems over the other 99.999% of America.

 

[leadcounsel]

"We have an entire generation of young men in our society who have become products of violence, and we are going to have to break the cycle,"

And guns are to blame, of course...

He can keep on talkin' b/c anti-gun stances cost Dems votes and positions every election.

 

[leadcounsel]

From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey

Irony that these places ALREADY have strict gun laws...?

 

[scout26]

Obama's true colors are starting to show.......

Cook County and Chicago have Assualt Weapons Bans, so how could they be used there ???

Just like every failed government program, it gets explained away as either:
1) Underfunded.
2) We need to do it more and harder this time.
3) A combination of 1) and 2)

Option 4) "It's a stupid idea/program and doesn't/won't ever work" is never a reason for government failures.

 

[Sindawe]

You missed one there scout26.

"While these weapons of mass death and destruction are banned here in X, they are still freely available in Y where black-hearted villains buy them to sell to our children here in X. We must extend the ban on these instruments of death to Y and indeed the entire nation."

 

[IA_farmboy]

You missed one there scout26.

"While these weapons of mass death and destruction are banned here in X, they are still freely available in Y where black-hearted villains buy them to sell to our children here in X. We must extend the ban on these instruments of death to Y and indeed the entire world."

Fixed that for you.

 

[MSGT9410]

"There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."

So banning "assault weapons" makes you love yourself?

Hm...

 

[Samuraigg]

So I've got a question. Have these Democrats forgotten about their political fortunes after the last AWB was passed, or do they simply refuse to believe that gun control is a losing issue for them?

I just don't get it at all. Some of these politicians REFUSE to give up on gun control. Have they forgotten 1994? It just makes me so frustrated.

 

[Kimber1911_06238]

he sounds like a Kennedy to me.

 

[The Canuck]

he sounds like a Kennedy to me.

Really? From what I recall JFK was an NRA member and a proponent of the Second Ammendment.

 

[Beatnik]

There is the problem, in my opinion. Problems that plague a few hundred square miles of inner big cities, do not mean problems over the other 99.999% of America.

There is no other 99.999% of America. There's only red state, which doesn't count, because with any luck, it's going to continue to get paved over and slowly converted into blue state.

Seriously, I'm not worried about a Democratic presidency. I've said it before: he'll get into office, and then priority 1 is going to be mandatory taxpayer funded 7th trimester abortions for all 9th graders. They'll screw it up good.

 

[Kevin108]

Isn't it easy to call for change when you have no idea what you're talking about?
I can't believe this clown gets so much press.

 

[igpoobah]

Really? From what I recall JFK was an NRA member and a proponent of the Second Ammendment.

Perhaps he refers to the present resident liberal senator Kennedy.

 

[target1911]

Tell me this....Just how in the HE!! is an AWB gong to make thugs Love themselves and everyone else....
You Want to make a BIG dent in crime???? Stop the 20 yr wait on Death Row.<<<<TIME FOR A NEW EXPRESS LANE.....
Make the thugs Pay for Thier Crime and make it FAST>>>> and Painfull.
I say that if the crime is bad enough for LIFE in the pin.....its good enough for DEATH in the chair. If the Gov. would stop wasting tax money on all the inmates, we would have more money for better things. I will even go as far as to say take that money and give it to the ones that want to further thier education but dont have the money. And for GOD's SAKE....They need manditory BIRTH CONTROL. Thugs do nothing more than create more thugs.
!!!! MORE GUN LAWS WILL NOT HELP !!!! It will only make more criminals out of regular law abiding citizens.

 

[kingpin008]

The search button feature is your friend

Already posted, and closed, here -

http://thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=289277

 

[kcmarine]

He said the government needs to permanently reinstate an assault weapons ban and close regulatory loopholes that protect unscrupulous gun dealers.

He also said government should support and fund more after-school programs to keep kids off the streets. But some of the burden must also be shouldered by residents who need to do more to raise and protect at-risk children, he added.

Why the h#!! does the government have to do everything?

He later added, "There's a reason they go out and shoot each other, because they don't love themselves. And the reason they don't love themselves is because we are not loving them enough."

So the food stamps, welfare, affirmative action, and rather loose standards that have already been applied aren't enough?

I doubt it's a love problem. I think it's a "hey, I wasn't raised to get the point that killing another human being is WRONG unless absolutely necessary and now no one wants to point that problem out due to fear of being politically incorrect" problem.

 

[ConfuseUs]

"From South Central L.A. to Newark, New Jersey, there's an epidemic of violence that's sickening the soul of this nation," the Illinois senator told the crowd. "The violence is unacceptable and it's got to stop."

I guess you might as well ban minorities in those areas. It would have the same effect on violent crime and be just as constitutional.

Nearly three dozen Chicago students have been killed this year, according to Chicago Public Schools. Obama said that figure is higher than the number of Illinois serviceman who've died in Iraq in 2007.

OK, the solution seems waaaaay too obvious to my simple mathematical mind: Draft the entire Chicago student body into the army and ship 'em off to Iraq.

 

[.cheese.]

Obama has no idea how to end gun-violence, so he harps on the same feel-good but worthless legislation that all the other antis want.

I'll bet he has no concept of the fact that assault weapons are really no different than regular weapons.... they're just black with a few more accessories.

And how exactly is it that banning the legal sale of assault weapons is going to disrupt the flow of illegal guns? For that matter how is banning the legal sale of them going to stop this violence he references? There will always be handguns.... or revolvers.... or knives.... or bats.... or rocks....

Stop blaming inanimate objects for the actions of criminals, whether they're young or not is irrelevant.

 

[Fatelvis]

Obama should start a gun trade in program.

HUGS FOR GUNS!!!!

Don't laugh...... This Saturday there is a "gun buy-back" program in Chicago. You bring in ANY gun, and you receive a $100 gift card for something -or-another. NO QUESTIONS ASKED. (Yeah right, we know they really stand by that!).