White House official: Obama will tackle 'very important issue' of gun control

[500grains]

My wife works for a small city police department and as of monday some of the local city judges are refusing to allow officers into their courts room with weapons.

I hope the po po union stands up for the officers and refuses to let them work without their duty weapon. If the judges do not like it, then they are free to hold court without police protection.

[Mac5.56]

Allow me to adjust my tinfoil, ever so slightly. I used to think that many of these shootings were somehow orchestrated by the anti-gunners of this country. It seems as if at the right moment when some legislation was pending or discussion of gun control would come up we would have a rash of shootings.

I really start to wonder sometimes. Just look at the incidents of the last couple of weeks beginning with Tucson.

I can't agree with that completely IG, but I see your point. I've noticed the same thing, but I don't think it is a conspiracy on the part of the government. I think what is happening is that there are always these shootings, one person here, another there, but when there is a high profile incident like Tucson all the journalists get excited and comb local news reports for anything that will increase ratings. This essentially makes an issue where there wasn't one (in the minds of people) before.

Just look at all this insane hype and over reporting regarding the Snowmageddon shit in the North East. The media has literally ground my part of the country into a stand still regarding the weather. Every time there is even a suggestion of snow, the media runs with it, and bashes it into peoples brains that the coming storm is going to destroy the world. The result here has been catastrophic. The media has essentially turned a non issue into something that people are literally freaking out about. Not to divert the subject, but I think you can use it as an example to draw the same conclusion about shootings.

[Belmont31R]

Thousands of people die every year from shootings. Its not hard to focus on any one topic at any given moment when you have an agenda to push.





Just like the whole runaway Toyota thing. In the media and Congress for 2 months and when was the last time anyone said anything about it?



Somewheres around 50k people die in auto accidents every year. Its easy to pick and choose what to report to shape an image of something.

[Bolt_Overide]

I never doubted he would go for more gun control, the man is a habitual liar.

[Magic_Salad0892]

Obama doesn't give a shit about gun control.

He wants to get re-elected.

[variablebinary]

Obama doesn't give a shit about gun control.

He wants to get re-elected.

Think twice

[Robb Jensen]

Obama doesn't give a shit about gun control.

He wants to get re-elected.

Or he's thinking surely he won't be reelected and said F-it and now will go after guns. I do believe that many of the dems in congress still won't want to touch gun control because they still want their seats.

One day after the State of the Union the ATF released their 'study group' on the importation of 'sporting purposes' of shotguns. It seems to contradict itself, they recognize that USPSA and 3gun as a sport, but say imported shotguns which have magazine capacities greater than 5 rounds is not sporting, they say plinking isn't 'sporting' because it's too broad.

I think they forget why the 2nd Amendment exists and why George Mason wouldn't sign off on the Constitution unless the 2nd Amendment and the Bill of Rights were included in it.

[R/Tdrvr]

All the President or some moderate in Congress needs to do is promote some sort of "Common Sense" gun control measures. Then, admendments and other attachments can be added, and before you know, something will get slipped in at the last moment.

Exactly. They'll just put it into a 2,000+ page bill that no one will read. Like the current health care law.

[THCDDM4]

In my opinion, it matters not who is POTUS or who holds the majority; a gun control bill is coming down the pike in the next 6 years; more than likely much much sooner. My bet is that it will be one of the more detrimental pieces of legislation on the matter to date.

Just look at the sociopolitcal factors that are at play right now. It isn't hard to see a big "**** you" coming to us freedom loving folk.

Not just in the venue of guns, but in all venues of freedom, we are being pressed harder and harder to give up just a bit more, just abit more, just a bit more in the name of "Safety"; "Security", "Colectivism" and "common Sense".

I think now, right now, when most of you have your guard down (And from the tone of a lot of the posts I have read here, your gaurds are somewhat down gentelman! Keep your eyes opened!) is the worst time, and we will see some BS bill that is thousands of pages of pork laiden crap that further errodes our freedoms/rights.

Shit, all it will take is (1) more high profile political figure to be involved in another shooting and we will see the machine use the blood of the victims to squelch our freedoms very rapidly.

[The_War_Wagon]

They have to PASS gun control first, so we can all find out what they're banning in it.