{"id":31104,"date":"2012-07-26T19:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=31104"},"modified":"2012-07-26T19:54:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T23:54:02","slug":"double-talk-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=31104","title":{"rendered":"Double talk on guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fox News<\/a> reports that President Obama has called for “strengthening” gun laws, but you tell me what he really means when he says;<\/p>\n

“I believe the Second Amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms,” Obama said. “But I also believe that a lot of gun owners would agree that AK-47s belong in the hands of soldiers, not on the streets of our cities.”<\/p>\n

He called for stepped-up background checks for people who want to purchase guns and said he would also seek a national consensus on combating violence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We have the right to bear arms, but only the arms that the government will allow us to have? And I’m not sure how they can say “stepped up background checks” and have anything meaningful in mind. No amount of “stepped up” checks would have prevented James Holmes from buying the guns he bought. The only thing that would’ve prevented his purchases would prevent anyone else from buying the same guns since Holmes had no black marks on his background before his night at the theater.<\/p>\n

So Harry Reid shied away from a discussion in the Senate this year on gun control because he knows what would happen to the Democrats in the Senate in their respective States.<\/p>\n

But Jay Carney told the press how to interpret Obama’s remarks;<\/p>\n

“He believes that we can enhance the enforcement of existing laws by making it more difficult for those who should not have weapons under existing laws … to obtain weapons,” Carney said. <\/p>\n

He noted that Obama supports the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban which expired in 2004, but said he wants to focus on strengthening background checks “given the stalemate in Congress.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, he can do that without Congress, but he’ll blame Congress for not “strengthening” background checks. He has enough laws in effect to enforce an effective control of commercial weapons, but if he does that, there will be no more crises on which he can depend to argue for more laws to restrict the millions of us who own guns and don’t kill other people.<\/p>\n

Romney apparently agrees with me that there are enough laws on the books already. For today, anyway.<\/p>\n

The president, however, suggested Wednesday that it “shouldn’t be controversial” to make the case that a “mentally unbalanced” person shouldn’t be able to get a gun so easily.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m guessing that by “mentally unbalanced” he means anyone who wants to buy what he’d call an assault weapon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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