Obama Talks Gun Control: ‘AK-47s Belong In The Hands Of Soldiers, Not In The Hands Of Criminals’

[Tx4obama]

VIDEO here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-talks-gun-control-ak-47s-belong-in-the-hands-of-soldiers-not-in-the-hands-of-criminals/

During his Wednesday speech before the Urban League in New Orleans, President Barack Obama discussed the Aurora, Colo., shooting spree, offering his condolences to the victims and their families and carefully articulating his views on gun control, which seemingly includes a renewed effort to ban assault rifles.

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Full article here: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/obama-talks-gun-control-ak-47s-belong-in-the-hands-of-soldiers-not-in-the-hands-of-criminals/

[gopiscrap]

1. Watch the NRA explode overe this!

[PoliticAverse]

8. Watch (semi-auto) AK-47 sales spike. n/t

[Schema Thing]

2. man I hope he knows what he's doing.

[still_one]

4. Politically it is very risky. /nt

[CTyankee]

5. Why do I have the feeling that Obama's campaign focus grouped this?

TA da, because they probably did! They wouldn't go out on a limb like this in an election year without getting a focus group response or responses...doesn't make sense, the stakes are too high...

My sense is that most folks are gonna say enough is enough with the assault rifle stuff...anyone can imagine themselves or a loved one in a movie theatre being gunned down...a far cry from the "right to bear arms" fer chrisakes....

[Tx4obama]

6. I wonder if anyone is going to cover it.

Haven't been able to find any stories on the net yet.
Other than the one in the OP above.

[Schema Thing]

12. I sure hope so... because to my mind the gungasm people have a point about the words "assault rifle"

it's fairly meaningless. What matters (at least wrt this particular argument) is how many bullets any particular gun's clip holds before it has to be changed out.


I'm thinking that a limit equal to or just less than what a cop carries around loaded in the gun in his holster would be a good compromise position.

Who cares what the gun looks like. I care what it can or can't do.

If we can't even get public consensus that 100 bullets in one magazine is too much... well, I think we're screwed.

[still_one]

3. It won't just be the NRA, there are a lot of folks who believe it is their right own an assault

Rifle

The only reason a person needs an assault rifle is to kill people

[DrDan]

7. BRAVO - a good start

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. We need no AKA-47s

[AlinPA]

10. To say he is wrong in that statement, means that criminals should have AK-47s, not soldiers.

Who the hell can disagree with his statement ? Well, OK, the NRA will;give them a few hours to say they disagree.

[patrice]

11. *If* the purpose of our guns is to authentically protect freedom . . .

(and I DO consider that a definite IF), why would that FREEDOM extend ONLY to those who conform to the POLITICALLY CORRECT position that everyone, regardless of who they are and what weapons they possess, exhibits the level of behavioral skills, personal responsibility, and respect for the rights of others that actually do serve the purposes of FREEDOM, rather than actually resulting in new forms of oppression, such as the fear of going to a public place and the consequences of un-necessary violence?

[LeftTurnOnly]

13. About time

Dems need to grow a pair on this issue.